Philips Hiring for Director Sustaining Engineering -STET at Pune, India Full Time

In this role, you have the opportunity to lead, direct and effectively supervise, interact, and collaborate with people from diverse disciplines and technical backgrounds across the Enterprise. The position requires the individual to identify and evaluate current resource pool to set up a dedicated sustaining engineering team through in-depth skill set mapping and skill gap analysis. He/She should be able to lead the team to build and maintain the team organization, determining the ways of working(WoW), and defining key interfaces while interacting with cross business modalities.

You are responsible for

• The position requires the ability to lead, direct and effectively supervise, interact, and collaborate with people from diverse disciplines and technical backgrounds across the Enterprise.

• The individual must have extensive knowledge and experience with LCM activities, Factory SCR/ECR management, CoNQ management, DEFOA Addressable strategies, DE bottling factory processes to improve current quality & productivity standards and supply chain de-risking strategies enabling them to leverage the Process and deliverable, translate Business problems into actionable strategic and tactical sustaining engineering plans.

• The position requires the individual to identify and evaluate current resource pool to set up a dedicated sustaining engineering team through in-depth skill set mapping and skill gap analysis. He/She should be able to lead the team to build and maintain the team organization, determining the ways of working(WoW), and defining key interfaces while interacting with cross business modalities.

• Managing multiple QMS and best practices of engagement.

• Strong process knowledge in PDLM/ MLD life cycle management.

• The individual is required to Ensure maximum value of the sustaining engineering portfolio that STET can take up including lifecycle management by optimizing and exploiting synergy opportunities across business units and clusters.

• Value creation in line with Quadruple Aim and ensuring right mix across horizons – (1) Focus horizon (2) Strategic Plan and (3) 3-5 Year Vision.

• The position requires strong communication skills and the ability to generate understanding, buy-in, and adoption of the principles and process.

• The individual must identify and respond to complex situations, relate and compare data from different sources, project outcomes, and interpret results used to guide Division decision-making.

• The Director of Sustaining Engineering must have a strong understanding of engineering design and manufacturing practices as they apply to the company’s core products and technologies.

• This is a key leadership position within the engineering organization and requires the ability to plan and execute on many levels, both strategic and tactical, to provide cross-functional support.

• The individual is expected to set up and lead a sustaining team to partner with businesses, develop understanding of their complete product portfolio, gain technical expertise to provide proactive manufacturing support and technical guidance necessary to manage products over their life cycle.

• The individual is responsible for setting up a process to coordinate and develop high-level plans, schedules, resource assignments, and budgets for larger sustaining projects that reduces product cost, minimizes product variations, improves product quality, targets standardization, pro-actively addresses obsolescence, and promotes commonality and reuse of assemblies, sub-assemblies and components in the product portfolio.

• The position requires effective and timely visual communication of product cost impacts, supply chain risks, sustaining approaches in an OBEYA style visualization approach.

• The position requires excellent communication skills and the ability to influence colleagues, regardless of position or grade.

You are a part of

ISC Engineering cross-functional team responsible for R&D knowledge transfer, life cycle management, localization, global transfer projects in Idea to Market (I2M), Market to order (M2O) and Order to customer (O2C).

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

• Master’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent

• 20 years’ experience in Sustaining Engineering function and/or in Medical/Healthcare companies

• Proven experience in related domain areas and deep product insights in similar functions are strongly preferred. Life Cycle Management (LCM) experience including business facing and a strong business acumen. (Techno-Commercial) looking for improving bottom line results.

• Experience in creating strategies and developing effective concepts: strong track record in creating large scale impact

• Experience in a business partner role/function

• Change management experience

• Deep understanding of value/cost/financial data and analytics

• Experience in Building a Solid technical / financial acumen

• Proven track record in leading cross functional teams with affinity towards innovative development projects and feel comfortable with handling the funnel from relatively vague requirements to well-defined project with committed business partners

• Experience in Supplier Strategy Development, Factory Productivity Management, LCM and Obsolescence mitigation

• Strong networking and influencing skills.

• Experience in PDLM / MLD process of V-model product development Lifecyle management.

• Must have worked in a Global Matrix organization, Key stake holders are Business leaders, R&D for Product development (NPI) and life cycle management, Supplier quality & Regulatory teams, knowledge of Radio Frequencies Coils, Magnetic resonance, Computed topography, Digital X Ray systems, related supplier base ,its products, policies and procedures are also desired.

In return, we offer you

A path towards your most rewarding career. Philips is growing its marketing capability enterprise wide. Succeeding in this market-based role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long-term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities.

Why should you join Philips?

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