Job Description

Job Title

Software Program Manager

Job Profile

The Software Program Manager is responsible for leading and executing complex software programs across the full lifecycle, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, budget, and quality expectations. The role drives cross-functional collaboration across global teams, integrating software engineering best practices, Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, SAFe), and modern AI-enabled development approaches (e.g., Harness Engineering, AI-assisted coding) to deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions.

The role emphasizes customer-centricity, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement, while fostering an engineering culture that leverages automation, data-driven decision making, and AI-enhanced productivity.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes software projects, independently managing innovation projects, and ensuring alignment with agreed timelines, budgets, and resource constraints.
• Prepares and implements complex projects within agreed-upon specifications, timelines, budgets, and staffing, managing a project team as part of a larger initiative to deliver key parts of a main end-to-end process.
• Executes improvement projects, resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods initiating change and driving improvements within the discipline, working under limited supervision.
• Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Develops a broad knowledge of project management methodologies, relevant organizational structures, and end-to-end processes, applying advanced planning methods and estimation techniques (resources, time, and risk) specific to the design discipline.
• Provides effective team collaboration by fostering a positive and inclusive team environment, motivating and guiding team members from diverse backgrounds, effectively delegating tasks, leveraging individual strengths, and ensuring clear communication across all project phases.
• Ensures customer centricity by demonstrating a deep understanding of customer needs throughout the project lifecycle, incorporating customer feedback into project iterations, and ensuring the final solution effectively addresses identified needs.
• Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders including clients, subcontractors, and senior management, proactively managing expectations, addressing concerns, and ensuring all parties are aligned on project objectives.
• Delivers business impact by driving projects that deliver innovative solutions with tangible benefits for the organization (e.g., new business processes, product enhancements, or supporting short-term business goals).
• Ensures continuous improvement by constantly seeking opportunities to improve project management skills and team processes, utilizing PMBok and SAFe guidelines to guide project execution, and actively participating in knowledge-sharing initiatives within the organization.
• Documents project knowledge by developing and maintaining comprehensive project documentation, capturing lessons learned and best practices for future reference and knowledge transfer.
• Cultivates effective relationships, shares knowledge, and provides influence over projects and peer groups, demonstrating full understanding of area of specialization.

Required Qualifications:

Education

Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, Project Management, Program Management or equivalent.

Work Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in areas such as Portfolio Management, Innovation Management, Project and Program Management or equivalent.
• Experience in a regulated environment such as medical device development
• Experience with imaging systems and AI technology is a plus, but not a must
• Experience with agile development a plus
• Experience with working in a global organization across multiple locations
• Strong influencing and communication skills
• Can work with all levels of people internally and externally
• Business proficiency in English

Certifications:

PMP (Project Management Professional), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or equivalent is a plus.

Preferred Skills (Technical/Functional Skills):

• Program management
• System thinking
• Communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
• Influence skills
• Software engineering
• IEC 62304 and regulated software development lifecycle practices
• Agile development methods and cross-functional product development collaboration
• Product Development Lifecycle Management and Continuous Improvement
• Harness Engineering, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and structured AI coding practices

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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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 culture of impact with care here