Senior Director R&D AzurionEye

Job Title

Senior Director R&D AzurionEye

Job Description

As Senior Director R&D AzurionEye, you will join the founding team of a new category within IGT-Systems. Reporting to the category leader, you will convert business intent and a validated pre-clinical prototype into a structured development program, aiming to launch AzurionEye products within three years.
This role involves managing the budget, recruiting and leading a new software and AI R&D team, establishing processes, and collaborating closely with product management, quality, regulatory, and other key stakeholders.
You will also drive the make/buy strategy for AzurionEye’s software and AI components, ensuring effective partnerships with outsourced development teams.

Your role:

• Creating the innovation roadmap, programming and project structure for the category

• Budget responsibility for about 30M innovation investments annually

• Building and leading an internal SW R&D team of 80 FTE and in addition leveraging a large, outsourced R&D workforce

• Creating a strategic 3-year plan for R&D Excellence and quality by design

• Driving SW excellence and (together with the Q department) the development quality for the AzurionEye category

• Organizing the cross-functional collaboration and innovation project execution in the category

• Collaborate with the IGT-D, CI and IGT-S Azurion on the realization of an integral roadmap

•  Developing a professional network among similar organizations in and outside Philips

• Working in close relation with Q&R, Product Management, Integrated Supply Chain, Services & Solutions Delivery

• Understanding external factors including Quality, Regulatory, Customers, Competition, and Industry trends

You're the right fit if:

• Master’s degree in engineering or science

• 10+ years’ experience in the medical device industry. Background in imaging systems a plus

• 5+ years of global leadership experience

• Demonstrated expertise in portfolio and program management

• Demonstrated experience in budget ownership for innovation/R&D

• Demonstrated experience in leading a large development organization (managing managers)

• Demonstrated experience in product development in a business environment, including FDA/EU-MDR design controls and regulatory pathways

• Demonstrated experience in SW development and AI

• Business acumen and ability to work in a cross-functional category leadership team

• Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with peers and other functions

• Ability to develop technical and clinical understanding of Image Guided Therapy Systems

• Ability to work in a global environment

• Strong people leadership skills, including conflict resolution, assertiveness, negotiation, change and influence management.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. This role is an office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

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