Philips Integral Project Leader 

China, Guangdong Province, Bao'an District 

559013241

Integral Project Leader

Job Description Summary

Responsible for End-to-End leading of a project to develop product, technology, system and solutions. Manages projects ensuring execution is in line with project guidelines and directives. Prepares and implements projects in multi-discipline areas in accordance with agreed conditions on specification, time, cost, quality and staffing. Projects have an innovative character and keep abreast of developments in project management tools and processes as well as technical domain.

You are responsible for

• Responsible for formulating the project plan, in consultation with management and other parties concerned on base of the requirements.
• Responsible to organize the resources to be used (quality, time, allocation, budget and information), helps the team to organize and specifies the quality standard in the processes
• Identifies the risks of the project (ie. specs, costs, planning, etc) and develops scenarios to overcome these risks by defining corrective actions and driving the projects to closure
• Coaches and directs project team members and gives them operational guidance, both technically and organizationally, responsible and facilitates implementation, realization and release by the project team according to the project plan (specification, quality, time, cost, information) and organization
• Represents the project team in the overall project to optimize fit for use and overall effectiveness
• Gathers and integrates project performance and progress information. Reports on the progress of the project with an agreed frequency on quality, status, time, and money to senior management and to the project members
• Ensures that there is an effective transfer and archiving of the project results and the associated knowledge
• Reports on employees’ performance to the hierarchical superior of the employees for the purpose of appraisal
• Ensures requirements and business case are defined, completed and approved
• Builds and maintains the project organization, helps the team to organize, chooses or coaches on the way of working and selects the adequate tools (tailors the approach to the specific project) and defines the interfaces with other functions, internal and external Philips
• Is responsible for quality initiatives to ensure quality deliverables of subsystems delivered
• Deploys process improvements, supports continuous improvement of teams and makes the project organization efficient and transparent, in line with departmental and project processes and compliance to corporatepolicies/rules/procedures
• Manages internal and external stakeholders
• Manages a project team of >10 team members
• Coaching of team members

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

• Master’s degree in project management or PMP certified
• 10+ years of relevant working experience, owning/leading projects from idea through implementation with evidence of business impact
• Specific knowledge of technical engineering of the relevant technical discipline and related disciplines or specific functional knowledge in the relevant functional discipline
• Good knowledge of project management methods and estimation techniques on resources, time and risks
• Strong skills in internal and external stakeholder management, people management and coaching, team management and enablement
• Excellent negotiation skills; managing subcontractors and suppliers
• Experience in leading projects where more disciplines are involved, multi-site and complex project. Co-ordination between the sub-projects.
• Critical thinker and strong team player. Accurate and quality minded, cost and quality conscious.
• Confident communicator with ability to effectively present both verbally and visually in English in a multi-site international setting. Proficient in Chinese and English writing and speaking.
• Must be able to travel for business.

In return, we offer you.

Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:

• We offer a market conform salary

• A variable bonus based on both Philips results and personal performance

• Convenient working conditions in office

• Extensive set of tools to drive your career, such as a personal development budget, free training and coaching

• Attractive collective health insurance package

• Opportunity to buy Philips products with discount

• Healthy work-life balance