Department Manager Validation & Usability Engineering interventional applications (iApps)

Philips International; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Department Manager for Validation & Usability Engineering in interventional applications (iApps) within the Life Cycle. You will lead a diverse team, drive strategy, and ensure compliance with global regulations while fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.

The role emphasizes shaping a data-driven validation approach, partnering across departments, and advancing rapid, customer-driven software release cycles in a regulated medical-device environment.

Qualifications

• Master or PhD in a relevant discipline with 10 years’ experience in the Medical Device Industry incl. working with the clinical domain.
• Experience working in a regulated and process-oriented environment including experience in Audits.
• DfSS Green Belt or Black Belt is preferred. Experience in Design Validation and Usability Engineering work is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing, diverse team of ~10 overseeing Product Validation and Usability Engineering activities for iApps across the Life Cycle.
• Develop and execute a long-term strategy to maximize business value and align with evolving customer needs.
• Drive validation and usability to a data-driven, automated, scalable approach enabling rapid release cycles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external suppliers for customer recruitment, usability, and regulatory consultants.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Regulatory experience

Design Validation

Usability Engineering

Audits experience

Education

Master's or PhD in a relevant discipline

Job description

Job Title Department Manager Validation & Usability Engineering interventional applications (iApps) Job Description Department Manager Design Validation & Usability Engineering Lead a high-performing, diverse team of ~10 individuals overseeing the Product Validation and the Usability Engineering activities throughout the Life Cycle of the interventional applications (iApps) of our IGT (Image Guided Therapy) Systems Products. Additionally drive Validation and Usability Engineering to the next level of highly efficient, scalable, and customer-driven capability, enabling rapid release cycles aligned with modern software development practices in close collaboration with the other teams. Your role: Developing and executing a long-term strategy to maximize business value. Aligning the Strategy alignment with evolving customer needs while inspiring and contributing to cross-organizational initiatives. Staffing, resource allocation, talent - and performance management while fostering a motivated and respectful work environment. Quality Management Procedures, ensure compliance with the current Global Regulations and standards, participating in Audits and ensuring allocation of Subject Matter Experts Building a network internally while also engaging with external suppliers for customer recruitment, usability, & regulatory consultants. Supporting the shift left moving validation activities to data driven, automated, reproducible verification where possible. Leveraging simulation, virtual environments and digital, scalable validation techniques enabling a 6-weeks release cycle. Driving customer centric development enabling software business growth by driving adoption by minimal lovable products combined with continuous customer value. Including ownership of post-market feedback and field performance data as input to validation and usability strategy. Inspiring the iApps RnD community connecting to customers in a meaningful way

You're the right fit if: Master or PhD in a relevant discipline with 10 years’ experience in the Medical Device Industry incl. working with the clinical domain A passion to lead, coach and develop people and talent transforming for growth at the same time Experience working in a regulated and process-oriented environment including experience in Audits Experience in product development disciplines Results focused with agility to balance multiple assignment across a matrix organization DfSS Green Belt or Black Belt is preferred Experience in doing Design Validation and Usability Engineering work is preferred.

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.

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. Learn more about our business here. Discover our rich and exciting history here. Learn more about our purpose here.

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 commitment to diversity and inclusion 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. It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism. To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans\' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance. Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace. Know Your Rights