Technical Project Manager

Philips International; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Technical Project Manager to drive multi-disciplinary initiatives across mechanical and electrical domains. You will manage scope, risks, and milestones while mentoring engineers and ensuring alignment with quality and cost targets.

The role requires a strong background in project management with hands-on experience in engineering change processes, with a focus on delivering impact in a regulated, medical-device environment. Office-based with global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years of experience in a high-tech industry focusing on mechanical or electrical design.
• Proven track record in project management with ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with PM tools like MS Project, Smartsheets, Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of large-scale projects to drive global sourcing strategies and initiatives.
• Develop project scope, assess risks, and establish technical requirements and milestones.
• Prepare WBS, RACI, and effort estimates for assigned projects.
• Mentor designers and engineers on technical reviews, DFMEA, DFA/DFM.
• Ensure quality, cost targets, on-time delivery, and alignment with business goals.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

MS Project

Smartsheets

Power BI

Engineering Change Management

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheets

Power BI

Job description

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:

Leading the execution of large-scale projects that drive global sourcing strategies to deliver the strategic business initiatives. This includes supplier management, E2E product launch management, lifecycle management among other critical sustaining engineering activities. Support the business case development for MLD projects Developing project scope, assessing technical & project risk, establish technical requirements for the project. Ensuring the achievement of ALL MLD targets for the project(s) at milestones (supplier support, cost, on time delivery of materials, quality, qualification of parts, processes and equipment) Preparation of WBS, RACI & effort estimation for project. Guiding and mentoring designers & engineers on technical review, DFMEA, DFA/DFM. Ensures that products meet external and internal customer quality needs, cost targets, assurance of supply, address component obsolescence and service needs Gains agreement on achieving Business case, project objectives, balancing schedule, cost, quality and requirements Manages the scope and requirements Takes full responsibility to achieve critical KPIs for quality and productivity targets that are tied to the annual business plans. Holds reviews with internal and external stakeholders, including business groups, to review plans, strategy and actual metrics for the products. Manages the business case and is a business partner focused on maximization of the added value for the business and savings potential Manages projects ensuring execution is in line with project guidelines and directives Determines project risks, defines corrective action and drives the projects to closure Determines, allocates, and directs all project resources in accordance with guidelines Keeps abreast of developments in project management tools and processes (both internal and external) Ensures compliance to corporate and regulatory agencies policies/rules/procedures X- functional alignment of Phase in / Phase out planning Manage E2E project execution as assigned by the functional manager.

You’re the right fit if:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent
• 12+ years’ experience in a high-tech industry with a focus on mechanical or electrical/electronics engineering design
• Successful track record of project management and the ability to lead teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders, preferred
• Familiarity with PM tools like MS Project, Smartsheets, Power BI
• Should be hands-on with Engineering Change Management, Design Transfer processes.
• Great work ethics with a passion for quality, Lean and business efficiency
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in design/development of electrical/electronic modules like battery. power supplies, displays/PCBAs would be an added advantage
• Experience in EMI/EMC and Compliance testing are added advantage.
• Experience in VAVE projects are good to have
• PMP Certification, MBA and experience in a regulated medical device development and manufacturing environment a plus
• Experience in should costing and DFX.

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 based role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.
• Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

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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