Head of Portfolio Execution & Transformation - Digital Pathology

Job Title Head of Portfolio Execution & Transformation - Digital Pathology Job Description At Philips Digital Pathology, we are accelerating the transformation of pathology through software, cloud-based solutions, AI-enabled innovation, and integrated diagnostics. To support this journey, we are looking for an experienced execution leader who can translate strategy into results and ensure our most critical business, product, engineering, and transformation initiatives are delivered with predictability, quality, and measurable customer and business impact. As Head of Portfolio Execution & Transformation, you will play a pivotal leadership role within the Digital Pathology organization, partnering closely with Product and Engineering leadership to drive strategic portfolio execution across a global, cross-functional, and highly regulated environment.

This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of digital healthcare by leading large-scale transformation initiatives, improving execution excellence, and enabling the delivery of innovative solutions that support clinicians, laboratories, and patients worldwide. Your role: Act as the strategic execution leader for the Digital Pathology portfolio, ensuring business priorities, product roadmaps, engineering plans, and transformation initiatives translate into predictable and measurable outcomes. Partner with the Product Leader and Head of Engineering as part of a leadership triad, aligning roadmap priorities, capacity planning, delivery commitments, risks, dependencies, quality expectations, and business objectives .

Own the overall execution health of a portfolio that includes software, hardware, cloud, AI, platform modernization, SaaS transition, scanner, and integrated diagnostics programs. Drive accountability for cost, schedule, quality, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, customer readiness, and business outcome commitments across strategic initiatives. Lead portfolio governance, executive reviews, release readiness processes, risk reviews, dependency management, decision forums, and escalation mechanisms to improve delivery predictability and execution transparency. Translate strategy, innovation priorities, customer commitments, and transformation objectives into structured programs with clear ownership, milestones, success criteria, budgets, risks, and value realization plans.

Identify delivery risks early, drive recovery plans for at-risk programs, remove barriers, facilitate executive decisions, and ensure critical initiatives remain on track. Lead execution governance for transformation programs including SaaS transition, cloud adoption, AI enablement, platform modernization, ecosystem partnerships, and Integrated Diagnostics initiatives. Build and continuously improve the leadership operating system through effective governance frameworks, dashboards, analytics, reporting standards, decision logs, and execution cadences. Leverage data, analytics, and AI-enabled methods to improve portfolio planning, forecasting, dependency management, risk identification, decision-making, and executive visibility.

Ensure release readiness and cross-functional alignment across engineering, regulatory, quality, operational, commercial, service, and customer deployment activities. Strengthen the execution capability of the organization by evolving PMO standards, coaching program and portfolio leaders, and implementing best practices in governance, risk management, recovery planning, and value realization. Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, continuous improvement, and execution excellence while enabling teams to deliver effectively in agile and regulated development environments. Contribute to Philips’ broader Integrated Diagnostics strategy by connecting Digital Pathology initiatives with enterprise cloud, AI, informatics, imaging, data, and platform capabilities.

You're the right fit if: 1. Experience You bring significant leadership experience in complex, international, cross-functional organizations, with a proven track record of leading large-scale portfolios, strategic programs, transformation initiatives, PMO…

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