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Strategic Project Manager, IR
PhilipsThe Netherlandsfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Sept 2025
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<h3>Job Title</h3>Strategic Project Manager, IR<p></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>As a Strategic Project Manager within the International Region Strategy team, you will be responsible for managing the implementation of key regional strategic initiatives. This role bridges strategic intent and operational execution, enabling measurable progress across projects that span multiple markets and business lines.</p><p></p><p><b>Your role:</b></p><ul><li>Lead and manage cross-functional strategic projects implementation, ensuring on-time, on-scope, and on-budget delivery.</li><li>Develop project charters, timelines, governance models, and risk mitigation plans, and track progress against milestones.</li><li>Coordinate with internal stakeholders across Markets, Zones, and Business Units to ensure buy-in and smooth execution of complex initiatives.</li><li>Establish reporting frameworks, prepare executive updates, and monitor KPIs that demonstrate progress and impact.</li><li>Identify roadblocks early and facilitate collaborative problem-solving across different levels of the organization.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>You're the right fit if:</b></p><ul><li>You have 6–8 years of experience in project management, strategic program execution, or transformation office roles, ideally in a multinational healthcare or technology organization.</li><li>You are certified (or experienced) in structured project management methodologies (e.g., PMP, Agile) and know how to scale governance to suit project complexity.</li><li>You are detail-oriented, organized, and highly effective at coordinating across multiple stakeholders in matrixed structures.</li><li>You are comfortable engaging both strategic and operational topics, and you can translate high-level direction into execution plans.</li><li>You are motivated by impact, thrive under pressure, and enjoy driving initiatives in culturally diverse environments.</li></ul><p></p><h2>How we work together</h2><p>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.</p><p></p><p>This role is an office role.</p><p></p><h2>About Philips</h2><p>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.</p><p></p><ul><li>Learn more about our business <a href="https://www.philips.com/a-w/about.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a><b>.</b></li><li>Discover our rich and exciting history <a href="https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/our-history.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a><b>.</b></li><li>Learn more about our purpose <a href="https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/environmental-social-governance/our-purpose" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a><b>.</b></li></ul><p></p><p>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 <a href="https://www.careers.philips.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</p>
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