PMO Manager

**Job Title**: PMO Manager (Bilingual)

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**

The Project Manager will be accountable to deliver on business outcome for our internal Philips Partners (Business, Market, Function) through projects. The Project Manager is responsible for establishing and leading enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives. Project Manager will lead a variety of different types of projects including transformation projects, strategic projects, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments.

**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 part of
**Our Global Business Services (GBS) team. In line with Philips vital transformation strategy to become excellent in operational execution, reduce complexity and increase efficiencies, GBS acts as the in-house competence center for Business Services - with E2E service lines across functions to accelerate continuously improved performance to better support our customers.

**To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience**
- Bachelors degree, or equivalent
- Advanced level of English (both verbal and written)
- Has > 5 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
- Knowledge of PMBOK standard (preferred)
- Experience in Lean tools (preferred)

**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. Your work will be ambitious and full of opportunities for growth. Variety and challenge will be part of your daily routines.

This role is located in Panama City, Panama.
- It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity