Director - Product Development

19M8 IN9M Pune, Maharastra; Pimpri; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra, India seeks an Innovation and Engineering Leader to guide R&D and product implementation, align cross-functional teams, and shape the long-term roadmap.

You will oversee architecture, resource planning, and talent development to deliver high-impact products and incorporate emerging technologies into the strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering or related field.
• 15–18 years of experience in manufacturing, production, engineering, management, system design, or R&D.
• Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Formulates and implements a long-term vision and strategy to maximize future business value.
• Overses departmental capabilities, ensuring long-term competences and knowledge for new technology introduction.
• Cultivates an engaged, innovative work environment by motivating and coaching employees.
• Provides guidance to ensure exceptional project execution and improved PM practices.
• Collaborates across departments to gather input on tech advancements and trends.
• Harnesses customer insights to drive informed decision-making and strategy.
• Leads data-driven decision processes to enhance efficiency and performance.
• Guides development of product strategy and manages software/hardware development groups.
• Leads technology roadmap development and talent management aligned with goals.

Skills

Hardware Engineering

Operational Excellence

Strategic Planning

Project Management

Budget Management

People Management

Product Development Lifecycle

Systems Engineering

Business Acumen

Configuration Management

Stakeholder Management

Operations Management

Change Management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering/Innovation/Business

Job description

Job Title Director - Product Development Job Description Job title: The Innovation and Engineering Leader is responsible for managing and guiding R&D and product implementation, coordinating cross-functional teams, monitoring development progress, staying updated on technical developments, and overseeing personnel for efficient operation of the development function, while assessing emerging technologies for product roadmap integration. The role formulates and implements a long-term vision and strategy to align with customer needs and enhance cross-organizational innovation. The role oversees departmental capabilities, ensuring competency development for new technology adoption and efficient resource allocation. The role fosters an engaged and innovative work environment, guides project execution, and collaborates across departments to gather input on technological advancements. The role drives data-driven decisions, contributes to product development policy formulation, guides technology roadmap development, and leads talent management initiatives.

Your role:

• Formulates and implements a long-term vision and strategy to maximize future business value, aligning with current and future customer needs, and contributes to cross-organizational innovation projects.
• Oversees departmental capabilities, ensuring a long-term focus on necessary competences and knowledge for new technology introduction, while also overseeing resource allocation, technology, and architectural responsibilities.
• Cultivates an engaged, innovative, and inspiring work environment by motivating, challenging, and coaching employees, fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement.
• Provides guidance and oversight to ensure exceptional project execution by continually enhancing project management practices, aiming to exceed customer expectations consistently.
• Collaborates with relevant parties outside the department, formulating strategies/project proposals across departmental borders, establishing networks with scientific and business entities to gather input on technological advancements and trends.
• Harnesses in-depth customer insights to drive informed decision-making and effective strategy implementation, ensuring alignment with customer needs and market dynamics.
• Takes the lead in driving data-driven decision-making processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across operational functions, leveraging analytics and metrics to optimize performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Plays a role in formulating parts of the product development policy and manages a software or hardware development group, integrating development processes with industrial, marketing, or purchasing processes.
• Guides the development of systems/products and technology roadmap, optimizes competencies against product development projects and product creation process within organizational and market dynamics.
• Leads succession planning and comprehensive talent management, driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, and career development in alignment with organizational operational goals.

You're the right fit if:

Minimum required Education: Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Innovation, Business or equivalent.

Minimum required Experience: Minimum 18 years of experience with Bachelor's OR Minimum 15 years of experience with Master's in areas such as Manufacturing, Production, Engineering, Management, System Design, R&D or equivalent.

Preferred Certification: Lean Six Sigma or equivalent

Preferred Skills:

• Hardware Engineering
• Operational Excellence Methodologies
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Budget Management
• People Management
• Product Development Lifecycle Management
• Systems Engineering
• Business Acumen
• Configuration Management (CM)
• Stakeholder Management
• Operations Management
• Change Management

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.

About Philips

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Learn more about our culture of impact with care.

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people's health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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