Senior Director, Global Sustaining Engineering

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Job Description

As the Senior Director, Global Sustaining Engineering, you will lead a large, dynamic R&D team focused on sustaining and optimizing Philips' Medical and Personal Health product portfolio at our Pune site. You will drive innovation, enhance product lifecycle management, and ensure operational excellence across the supply chain, BOM productivity, and sourcing. This role demands a strategic leader with an entrepreneurial mindset, capable of transforming the organization and contributing to significant business growth. You will build and develop a global capability center, establishing Pune as a center of excellence.

Your role:

• Develop and implement R&D strategies aligned with Philips' global objectives, contributing to the 5-year Strategic Plan of Record.

• Establish and grow Centers of Excellence (CoE) for critical technologies (e.g., Plastics, PCBA, Sheet Metal, Systems Engineering, Power Distribution Unit).

• Define and execute the Pune site's strategic roadmap, driving organizational transformation.

• Manage and influence changes to operational processes and procedures across a global matrix organization.

• Shape the future of Philips’ product portfolio by leading R&D strategies that enhance product lifecycle management, supply chain efficiency, and cost optimization.

• Lead a high-performing team of 300-400+ engineers, collaborating with global business leaders, R&D teams, supplier quality, and regulatory stakeholders.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance, ensuring projects meet regulatory requirements and quality standards.

• Manage budgets, CAPEX, and resource allocation effectively, defining function-level budgets with multiple cost centers.

• Oversee Life Cycle Management (LCM) activities, factory SCR/ECR management, CoNQ management, and supply chain de-risking strategies.

• Establish and lead a dedicated factory-sustaining engineering team, performing a skill gap analysis and defining ways of working.

• Drive BOM productivity and assurance of supply, contributing to significant cost savings.

• Manage product performance, regulatory compliance, and product reliability.

Key Performance Indicators:

Including but not limited to:

• Technical growth/leadership

• Stakeholder management

• On-time delivery to commitments

• LCM Ownership (workstream ownership)

• Funnel BOM Productivity & Assurance of Supply

You're the right fit if, you:

• Have 20+ years of experience in engineering leadership, preferably in the medical or healthcare industry.

• Possess strong technical expertise in lifecycle management, supply chain strategies, and operational excellence.

• Hold a master’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent.

• Demonstrated a proven track record of leading large, cross-functional teams in a global matrix organization and driving business transformation.

• Have strong financial acumen and experience in managing budgets and resources.

• Deep understanding of PDLM/MLD processes and V-model product development.

• Have experience building and leading global capability centers.

• Have advanced knowledge of Radio Frequency Coils, Magnetic Resonance, Computed Tomography, and Digital X-ray systems or equivalent product development & R&D capabilities managed in various industries.

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 a 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 onsite-based.

About Philips
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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.

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