Philips Consumer Lifestyle offers rich, new consumer experiences that meet consumers’ desire for wellness and pleasure, starting from our consumer insights and guided by our brand promise of “Sense and Simplicity”. We are a highly consumer driven organization looking at the individual's interests in terms of their Space, their Mind, their Body, and their Appearance.
Advanced Technology in Drachten provides technological bases for the development of new successful consumer products. Furthermore, two Lead Innovation Sites develop these into products in the following categories: Domestic Appliances and Shaving & Beauty. Over 600 engineers work continuously on new products in our dynamic, multidisciplinary and international Consumer Lifestyle department in Drachten. Product highlights are the Wake-up Light, Arcitec shaver, the One-touch Espresso Machine and water & air purification solutions.

Company culture

As Technical Project Manager you supervise product development projects from the initial idea through to the eventual launch. For that purpose you put together a multidisciplinary team, with which you complete the project’s various stages.

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Coming up with technical solutions in deliberation with your team
• Analyzing and building on the project proposition and specifying requirements for the project
• Managing boundary conditions and involved risks and taking corrective actions if necessary
• Setting up a review structure that provides optimal insight into the current status of a project

Job description

• You are a strong leader, creative and analytical
• You are a team player and a coach
• You have a ‘hands-on’ approach and good communication skills.
• You have a Master or Bachelor Degree in mechanical engineering (preferably) or electrical engineering
• More than 3 years experience in managing international multidisciplinary R&D projects
• It is essential to have a broad experience in product development preferably with the development of mass-manufactured consumer products. Additional experience in production is a plus.
• Feeling for interpersonal processes; recognising different interests and taking decisions that benefit the project as well as the business
• Ability to motivate your colleagues

Job criteria

Philips offers you a challenging job with excellent career development possibilities and self-evident good benefits, like:
• competitive base salary
• 25 days of leave and the possibility to purchase up to 20 extra days off annually
• Non-contributory pension scheme
• Personal budget: The Personal Budget is a sum that you will receive in addition to your salary each month. Usually this budget contains almost 25% of your monthly salary. It already contains the holiday allowance. You can choose for a monthly payment or to use it for other benefits e.g. trade union membership fee
• Possibility to take an interest in our life course scheme

Employee Benefits

If you are interested in this vacancy please apply by using the button below. For further details or other questions you can contact Djurre van Gulik at +31 (0)6 13 24 44 08

Location

Drachten

Contact person

de heer D. (Djurre) van Gulik