Job description: Job Title Senior Director Breakthrough Innovation Program Lead

Job Description

BReakthrough Innovation TEam (BRITE) Program Leaders will be operating highly visible projects that will shape the future of Philips. These Programs have Board of Management (BoM) oversight and report to and work very closely with the Head of Research who leads the overall BRITE portfolio of programs.

This specific role will be in managing the BRITE RPA (Robotic-assisted procedure automation). The goal of this BRITE is to raise the quality of care by reducing the learning curve for complex procedures, and increasing precision beyond what is possible today with manual operation. We believe that combining robotics, image-guidance, and automation can help customers provide optimal care to patients. This role in addition to directly reporting to the Head of Research is also a dotted line to BU Leader for the Image Guided Therapy Systems Business and has visibility across the company.

Your role:

Developing industry-shifting value propositions that delight current and future customers and propel Philips forward as a transformative health-tech company.

Forming and leading a team of entrepreneurial innovators to deliver end-to-end value propositions, while utilizing and developing the larger Philips business framework to gain a competitive advantage.

Working with the Head of Research and the BRITE team to drive progress, overcome operational obstacles, and regularly report on status.

Preparing, proposing and delivering milestone-based funding and stage-gating rounds with transparent, fact-based report-outs and scenarios/recommendations for the next steps.

Interacting with multiple stakeholders across Philips specifically the spawning business and senior I&S leadership to keep and evolve strategies and execution priorities.

Identifying, reaching out and engaging with other teams and resource teams to help resolve operational obstacles.

Growing the BRITE project from exploratory research through product delivery, ensuring full transparency and clarity on project progress, hurdles, and potential dilemmas.

Day-to-day management of your BRITE project and team.

Selecting, supervising, developing, and evaluating team members to ensure the efficient operation of the BRITE projects as well as team and individual performance development.

Working with and as part of the Research Leadership team to further evolve and fine-tune the new Research set-up and way of working for maximum impact.

You’re the right fit if:

You’ve acquired a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience and at least 5+ years as a senior people leader with a demonstrated track record in leading teams and developing capabilities that empower you to deliver breakthrough innovation.

An advanced degree in Business, Science, Engineering or a related field is required, an additional MBA level business education or equivalent is preferred.

Expertise in developing and maintaining relationships and networks with internal and external stakeholders at all seniority levels (up to ExCo) and bringing a product from innovation to the market successfully.

Strong team and people management skills combined with a results-driven attitude to raise the bar continuously and thrive throughout turbulent environments.

A background in robotic or medical technologies surgery is an advantage.

Customer centricity: Ability to understand and put (future) customer needs and customer experiences at the forefront of all activities, in line with Philips’s business objectives.

Recognition as one with an entrepreneurial mindset: being adaptive, curious, coachable, and a high achiever – with the ability and desire to quickly learn, unlearn and relearn in a continuous improvement way.

You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

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 .

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

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Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran and maintains a drug-free workplace.

Expected salary:

Location: Cambridge

Job date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 05:31:17 GMT

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Job description: Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is a USAID-funded project (2017-2025). The goal of the project is to increase the practice of priority individual and household level behaviours and provider targeted behaviours in the areas of malaria; maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition; family planning and reproductive health (RH); and tuberculosis, while increasing the capacity of national and sub-national entities to coordinate and oversee quality SBC programming.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Finance & Admin Officer

Job Location: Cross River

Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

• The Finance & Admin Officer together with other finance and admin team members will implement efficient finance activities and provide efficient administrative support for all categories of staff and external stakeholders to provide administrative and logistics support in the office.
• S/he will also work with the State Coordinator and other program team members in providing required support towards successful implementation of BA-Nigeria activities towards achieving the project objectives in a compliant manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

In addition to the overall technical inputs to the project described above, specific duties and responsibilities include the following below:

• Ensure procurement of goods and services for the project are done according to USAID and institutional rules and regulations.
• Arrange for the repair and maintenance of office equipment and machinery to ensure that staff works effectively without any disruptions.
• Provide necessary logistic support to prepare large meetings, trainings and workshops in the office and off-site.
• Management of office fixed assets and inventory, ensuring all assets are tagged and updated in asset register and proper records are maintained for all office consumables to prevent waste and abuse. Carry out periodic asset physical asset verification and inventory stock taking.
• Monitor budget expenditures against approved budgets.
• Review purchase orders, time and attendance records and prepare necessary reports for the project finance and senior management team;
• Ensures that all supporting documents are available and attached to the payment vouchers
• Together with relevant staff ensure that travel & logistics, welfare and support needs of visiting guests are met;
• Support in the maintenance and management of physical office space and project vehicles; including environmental cleaning, local transportation, maintenance of office equipment and appliances and meeting staff office needs;
• Manage all field office petty cash transactions, ensuring proper documentation and physical cash control.
• Withdraws cash from the bank for program activities and makes necessary disbursements after obtaining necessary approvals;
• Ensure all travel and activity advances from the field office are retired as at when due; adequate support documentations are provided and all unused funds refunded to project account in a timely manner.
• Prepare procurement documentation including RFQs, selection memos, local purchase orders, GRNs etc. using JHU/CCP formats
• Prepares source documents for both cash and check field payments
• Support the admin team in updating and managing vendor contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs);
• Assist in processing vendor and consultancy invoices.
• Ensure office stationary are always available and stockouts are avoided;
• Work closely with relevant state staff to supervise and account for all safety equipment and supplies (First Aid and Fire extinguishers etc.) in all program offices.
• Conduct routine checks on all safety equipment to ensure they are in good and usable condition, and make recommendations when needed;
• Ensure PAYE and Withholding Taxes are remitted before the last day of the month to the responsible parties.
• Additional duties assigned to by their supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervise the Finance and Admin Assistant and Driver(s)
• Review and approve times heets for direct reports
• Perform performance appraisals for direct reports.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a relevant field (Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related Finance field).
• 5 – 6 years of NGO experience is required. Experience implementing USAID funded projects in Nigeria is essential.
• Languages Skills: Must be fluent in English.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should forward PDF copies of their CV to:

Expected salary:

Location: Cross River

Job date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:33:32 GMT

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