**Job Title**: Project Management Office LeaderPhilips 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.Philips Costa Rica has an exciting opportunity to join our multimodality site as a **Project Management Office Leader**. In this role, you are a key player in producing medical devices that help doctors decide on critical life-saving procedures for patients around the globe.Specifically in this role, you are a key player on the site leadership team, leading the team by influence and helping to organize, evaluate and then define the most impactful site priorities, create a funnel of improvements for each business, track productivity improvements and cost savings for the site, and develop training and guide project managers and engineers to drive effective project implementations.**You are responsible for**- Experienced in the work of project management with the ability to teach others how to lead a project E2E.- Able to help the team prioritize focusing on the most impactful deliverables- Provide vision and leadership as giving direction to strategic projects with significant impact- Has excellent verbal and written communication skills (in Spanish and English).- Create an environment where people are motivated to achieve goals- Able to generate environments where colleagues want to participate and team up.- Primary function is to plan, lead, and manage programs, utilizing multi-disciplined product development teams.- Accountable to lead the overall program planning, staffing, project execution, cost control, risk management, and primary client relationship duties.- Proven track record leading cross-functional groups in projects and/or operating mechanism to achieve business, goals and priorities, and experience leading teams in defining process flow and inputs & outputs- Demonstrated ability to make independent decisions and manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment- Proven communication, coaching and interpersonal skills.- Lean mindset for efficient process definition, and knowledgeable in Lean fundamentals and/or Six Sigma- Leverages technical depth to get hands on and go two to three levels deep to learn how the work is done at the point of impact- Has the ability to see the bigger picture of portfolio management and prioritization, but also can focus on the details necessary to build a working process- Experience with multi-generation planning of product and/or technology, including product life cycle experience**To succeed in this role, you'll need a customer-first attitude and the following**- Minimum of 5 years of Project Management experience or PMO leader required- Medical Device experience preferred- Excellent English Skills are necessary- Four-year technical degree required, preferably in Engineering or Science- Proven Project Management skills is required- PM Certifications (CAPM, PMP, Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, etc ) is desirable**In return, we offer you**Describe in two to three lines what tangible and intangible benefits the incumbent will gain in this role. Use our Employer Value Proposition (EVP) themes and information gathered in the RSM as input sources.**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 genera
