Department Head Technology Laboratories Job in Netherlands

Royal Dutch Philips is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. This means that Philips products are ‘designed around you’, 'easy to experience’ and ‘advanced’. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs about 117,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries worldwide.

With sales over EUR 22 billion in 2010, Philips is a global leader across its healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle portfolio and is therefore:
• The world’s largest home healthcare company, being number one in: Monitoring systems, Automated External Defibrillators, Cardiac Ultrasound and Cardiovascular X-ray;
• Number one in lamps in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific and number two in North America; in Automotive lighting, leading in Europe, Latin America, Japan and Asia Pacific;
• Number one in the electric shavers and male grooming category globally.

In a nutshell, our strategy is to enable the growth of Philips through world-class IT, customer centricity and agile business processes. Customer centricity involves creating close ties with our customers and partners through mobile and online interaction, in order to optimize our products and services in the markets. Agile business processes involves streamlining and optimizing our end-to-end (E2E) value chain through providing on-demand business services, which will operate 24/7 in real time, and will be increasingly cloud-based. Our IT team works through a model were we engage closely with Philips’ businesses in managing the IT Portfolio, while defining a world class future state through Architecture & Platforms. Our full business portfolio is Delivered and Operated through an integrated eco-system of world class partners.

Department Head Technology Laboratories Job Description

Department Head Technology Laboratories
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands 

Your challenge
The Technology Laboratories (former part of MiPlaza) of Philips Innovation Services (Eindhoven – the Netherlands) are looking for a Department Head with the drive to lead a team of over ninety high-skilled professionals to a next level offering world class support and state-of-the-art research and expertise. Do you want to manage and improve a part of one of the largest R&D service providers in the world?

Your responsibilities
• Prepare and manage the yearly budget of the group and lead to achieve it for your group specifically and the Technology Labs departments as a whole
• Insure optimal execution of all technical activities within the competence of micro and nano device processing
• Manage (and improve) the competences of the group to continuously deliver high added value solutions for our customers and benchmarking it internal- and externally
• Ensure appropriate personnel management practices regarding adequate staffing, performance appraisals, education and training, management development policy, remuneration, coaching and recruitment
• Leading the quality and process improvement program of the department
• Pro-actively maintaining good relationships with the existing suppliers/customers and actively cooperating in finding new business opportunities
• Coaching and advising the four department heads
• Member of the management team of Division 2 of Philips Innovation Services and as such actively influences the policy/strategy for Philips Innovation Services and the Technology Laboratories group

We are looking for
• Master or PhD degree
• Minimum of 10 to 15 years work experience in a relevant environment like process technology, R&D, semiconductor or nano and micro technology
• Manufacturing expertise
• Managing customer relations in a technical/solution driven way as a technical support specialist
• A thorough background in technology; e.g. semiconductor, micro-electronics
• A people manager of experts
• Proven leadership and change management capabilities as a department management in a high-tech environment
• Manage and accomplish change
• Knowledge of Dutch (preferably) and English

Our offer
You can lead and furthermore improve your own department that supports acknowledged customers to decrease their time to market by realizing their ideas to a concept with state- of-the-art equipment in a world class environment.

We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to explore.

Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:
• Depending on experience, a year salary (fulltime) between € 87.000 and € 111.000 (including personal benefits package)
• 25 Days of leave and the possibility to purchase up to 20 extra days off annually
• A variable bonus based on both Philips results and personal performance
• Extensive set of tools to drive your career, such as a personal development budget, free training and coaching
• Solid company pension scheme (employee contribution fee 0%), and attractive collective health insurance package
• Opportunity to buy Philips shares and products with discount
• Healthy work-life balance

Your team
The Technology Laboratories (former MiPlaza) are part of Philips Innovation Services and consist of the following 4 groups that support open innovation, enabling companies to bring ideas to realization, accelerate their innovation and achieve business growth.

The Thin Film Facilities Process Integration group focusses on the realization of integral (flowchart) solutions in the application fields of MEMS, NEMS, sensors, actuators, switches, harvesters for lighting, medical and semiconductor applications. This group works together with the TFF Process Engineering group that focusses on the continuous improvement of existing and new technologies, processes and equipment.

The Equipment Engineering group is responsible for optimal maintenance of the process equipment in a world class clean room environment.

Device Processing Facilities offers a collection of process and assembly technologies that can be used for many different application areas.

You will lead a highly motivated and skilled department of almost 100 technology experts (from secondary vocational education/MBO to Bachelor, Master-level); 4 Group Leaders, Process and Equipment Engineers who have decades of experience in supporting customers both inside and outside Philips, ranging from major companies and institutes like ASML, NXP, Holst to highly innovative start-ups.

Contact
If you recognize yourself in this profile and you want to lead a world class R&D service provider contact Koen Meewis via the 'Apply' button below.

After a pre-selection process based on your resume you will be invited for face-to-face recruitment and/or business interviews. The interviews will take place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Keywords: Manager R&D, Head of Research and Development, Manager Technical R&D.

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