Country Project Manager Lead - Philips UK - Guildford

Job description

Your challenge
Philips Healthcare is focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation. Our aim is to improve the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2025. We now have an opportunity for a Country Project Manager Lead who can contribute to our mission.

Your responsibilities
The Country Project Manager Lead will be responsible for:

Line management and development of the Project Management team

Implementing best practice project management processes ensuring they are consistentand best practise

Ensuring the rigorous adherence to milestones across the team

Maintaining project delivery dates with risks and opportunities identified, which will be the basis of the forecasting process

To develop the team to ensure world class competencies

To strategically develop our Project Management business

Manage pre and post project costs calculations

Ensuring cycle times are kept within agreed limits to keep field inventory within agreed limits

To deliver complete customer satisfaction measured by the IQCS

To ensure that all project management records are maintained

Your team
Working at Philips means driving your career in an organisation with an incredible diversity of nationalities, skills, backgrounds, functions and challenges. We have opportunities for graduates as well as experienced professionals in everything from applied research to marketing and sales in over 100 countries. We’re a fascinating company to be part of, with a strong emphasis on cultural awareness, mutual understanding and out-of-the-box thinking.

The Country Project Manager Lead sits within the Healthcare business

The Country Project Manager Lead reports in to the Supply Chain Director

This position will be field based but you should be able to commute to our Guildford Office twice a week or when needed.

Our offer
We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to explore. Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:

• A competitive base salary plus a performance related bonus.

• Access to private healthcare insurance

• Holiday allowance of 25 days a year from the start (plus bank holidays)

• Learning and Development opportunities through our Philips University

• Family friendly policies which offer enhanced maternity and paternity schemes

• The Philips Employee Shop allows employees to buy Philips products at discounted prices

• Subsidised Café promoting healthy eating and wellbeing at the Guildford and Avent sites

• Holistic therapies - subsidised Clinical and Sports trained massage therapist on site in Guildford every Tuesday with a free taster session for new starters

• ‘Live Well’ Program of Events – monthly activities that promote health and wellbeing, look out for on-site communications.

• Social Events - a dedicated Sports & Social committee with members in Guildford and Cambridge, promoting a host of social events throughout the year including the famous Family Sports Day at Surrey Sports Park.

• Employee Assistance Program – ‘Be Supported’ our EAP is available for all Philips employees and their families.

We are looking for
The CPM Lead role manages the Project Management team on a day to day basis and ensures best practice processes are followed consistently. The aim of the role is to consistently deliver projects on time and within budget via the Project Managers in the team, and develop the team to ensure world class project delivery. We need the following skills:
Extremely good communication skills
Strong relationship management skills
Customer focused
Results focused
Contact
Please apply on-line so your application reaches the right recruiter. Good Luck!