Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Job Title

Technical Project Manager

Job Description

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for executing multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring alignment with timelines, budgets, and resource constraints, potentially overseeing projects, resolving issues creatively and selecting appropriate methods for solutions, fostering effective team collaboration, delegating tasks, leveraging strengths, and ensuring clear communication, working under limited supervision. The role demonstrates customer centricity by understanding customer needs, incorporating feedback, and ensuring solutions meet requirements, builds strong relationships with stakeholders, managing expectations and ensuring alignment on objectives. The role delivers business impact through innovative solutions supporting organizational goals, while continuous improvement is ensured by seeking skill enhancement opportunities, and sharing knowledge.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute medium scale to large‑scale, cross‑functional programs supporting global sourcing strategies, lifecycle initiatives, and long‑term business continuity objectives.

• Own end‑to‑end project management, including scope definition, planning, scheduling, governance, dependency management, risk & issue management, and successful delivery.

• Drive lifecycle sustainability and risk‑mitigation initiatives to ensure continuity of supply, product availability, and compliance across the portfolio.

• Support and manage business case development, ensuring alignment with financial targets, value realization, and strategic priorities.

• Develop and maintain program structures, including WBS, RACI, milestones, effort estimation, and resource planning.

• Ensure delivery against critical KPIs related to quality, cost, productivity, delivery, and long‑term assurance of supply across the product lifecycle, aligned with annual business objectives.

• Coordinate closely with engineering and technical teams to establish technical requirements, feasibility assessments, and risk evaluations for programs and initiatives.

• Lead cross‑functional reviews with internal and external stakeholders to track progress, review metrics, address deviations, and drive corrective actions.

• Manage scope changes, priorities, and trade‑offs, ensuring alignment with agreed business objectives and stakeholder expectations.

• Ensure adherence to corporate, quality, and regulatory requirements, maintaining strong governance and audit‑ready documentation.

• Promote continuous improvement by leveraging best practices, lessons learned, and advancements in project and program management tools and methodologies.

You're the right fit if:

Minimum required Education:
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline / master's degree in project management.

Minimum required Experience:

8+ years of experience in a high‑tech or regulated industry, with strong exposure to program or project management.

Minimum required Certification:

PMP (Project Management Professional) certification preferred

Preferred Experience:

• Demonstrated experience leading multi‑disciplinary programs across engineering, supply chain, quality, procurement, and manufacturing functions.

• Proven ability to manage lifecycle‑driven and sustaining initiatives, balancing innovation with long‑term portfolio continuity.

• Strong track record of influencing stakeholders and driving execution in matrixed, global environments.

• Familiarity with project management and reporting tools such as MS Project, Smartsheets, Power BI, or equivalent.

• Hands‑on experience with engineering change management, design transfer, or industrialization processes preferred.

• Exposure to regulated environments (e.g., medical devices, healthcare, or equivalent) is a strong advantage

Preferred Skills:

• Program & Senior‑level Project Management

• Stakeholder Management and Influence without Authority

• Business Acumen and Value‑based Decision Making

• Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Governance, Documentation, and Executive Reporting

• Cross‑functional and Global Team Leadership

• Quality, Compliance, and Lifecycle Mindset

• Ownership, Accountability, and Delivery Focus

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
This role is an office role.
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

Experience Level

Senior Level