PMO Specialist

**Job Title**: PMO Specialist

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

**In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better**
Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

**You are responsible for**
Provides a consultative role to projects and or programs by supplying templates, best practices, training, access to information and lessons learnt from other projects
- Monitors the competing constraints of scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources and risk
- Provides project / program management with regular performance status, variances to plan and identification of areas for corrective actions
- Coordinating communication across projects
- Monitors compliance to project management standards, policies, procedures and templates
- Lead and manage changes to scope, cost and time through integrated change control process
- Perform consolidated risk reporting to the program leadership and escalate risks which require management attention
- Facilitation of project web site, special meetings, war room, PM software support
- Facilitate capturing lessons learned and initiate any project specific improvement actions
- Establishing resource management model & tracking utilization, programs make better decisions for project prioritization
- Responsible to create overall program communication standards for projects to follow
- Assist the program manager in developing necessary communications to program stakeholders
- Track program and project cost spend and create forecast reports to manage cost
- Validates financial forecasts and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
- Fosters excellent cross functional communications and integrates the work of multiple stakeholders to achieve business objectives -Ability to navigate in a highly matrixed organization effectively
- Solid interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Exercises judgment and influence on key process decisions within an area

**You are a part of**

A team with an exciting and innovative environment that will actively encourage you to make improvements, establish best-in-class service, and have a direct impact on our success.

**To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following**
- Has > 2 years of relevant working experience, including experience in PMO support of a large program
- Be proficient in structuring complex tasks and coordination of complex processes
- Good influencing and relationship building skills
- Change management skills
- Good process and data analytical skills
- Being able to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a pressurized environment and work proactively
- PMP certificate (or equivalent) is preferred
- Knowledge of PMBOK standard (preferred)
- Experience in Lean tools (preferred)
- Excellent command of English (both verbal and written)

**In return, we offer you**

A meaningful career, with new challenges in our dynamic organization, working in an encouraging multinational and multicultural environment. We are happy to provide you with this opportunity to work with new technologies. You will be surrounded by passionate and committed, colleagues who share your ambition to create outstanding customer experiences.

This role is located in Panama City, Panama.

**How we work at Philips**
Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart - which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home - for our hybrid roles.
Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

- We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration:_ There's a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea gen