Philips Hiring for Director of R&D, Product Engineering at Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

Job Title

Director of R&D, Product Engineering

Job Description

In this role, you have the opportunity to lead the Product Engineering of patient monitoring and defibrillators for the Philips Emergency Care business. You will be a key leader on the Global Emergency Care R&D Leadership Team and report to the Head of Global R&D, Emergency Care.

You are responsible for

• Partnering with the broader Global Emergency Care R&D Leadership Team in formulating a long-term vision for the Product Engineering capabilities for the Emergency Care product lines.
• Partnering with the broader Philips ecosystem to leverage external expertise, centers of excellence teams and other pools to deliver outcomes.
• Managing the capabilities of the local R&D department and ensuring project execution by highly motivated staff to deliver on the businesses ‘must win’ initiatives.
• Displaying strong market, content, and technology knowledge, understanding the competition, the market players, the background of technologies, and the current and future trends.
• Optimizing the product engineering process in the context of organizational and market dynamics.
• Developing and managing budgets for the department
• Reporting on progress and issues to the other management team members
• Ensuring all R&D activities meet the requirements of the Philips QMS
• Leading the R&D department in providing technical support for different aspects of the business.

You are a part of the Philips Emergency Care Global R&D Leadership Team and will direct Systems, Embedded Software, Hardware, and Verification & Validation engineering activities. These activities require a broad spectrum of skills/capabilities, from the electronic, mechanical, system, and embedded software engineering to managing risk, security, technical investigations, and labeling.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree from an accredited school in an engineering/technical discipline and ideally a postgraduate degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in system engineering or equivalent
• 15+ years in product development with 5+ years experience in leading a multi-disciplinary team developing class II medical devices, ideally with experience in,

o Patient monitoring and defibrillation

o The development of software as a medical device

o Wired and wireless communication technologies

o CE & FDA regulatory as well as military & aviation standard requirements

o Model-based system engineering methodologies

o Design for Service and Manufacture

o Design for 6 sigma/Green belt/ Lean/ Agile development

• Strong experience in managing a multi-disciplined team of engineers; development, engagement, performance management
• Strong interpersonal, planning, communication, attention to detail, and self-starter skills
• Strong ability to work cross-culturally in a global environment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills while maintaining high-quality standards.

In return, we offer you

Philips is committed to helping each employee reach their personal goals for development. With the mentoring/coaching programs, stretch assignments are offered to employees. We also offer competitive compensation, outstanding benefits, and flexibility in a career with a positive and supportive atmosphere to develop your talents further.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 2.5 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there,you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.

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