Job Title

Director Medical Affairs

Job Description

Director, Medical Affairs, Image-Guided Therapy Systems

The Director, Medical Affairs in Image-Guided Therapy Systems (IGT-S) leads the medical affairs team, developing and executing clinical strategies while supporting cross-functional collaboration to achieve organizational objectives. This role partners with R&D, Marketing, Regulatory Affairs, and Patient Safety to drive strategic direction, foster innovation, and ensure effective operational execution.  

Your role: 

• Strategic planning and execution: Leads the alignment and execution of medical affairs strategies with overall IGTS and Philips Medical Office objectives, driving innovation and operational excellence.
• Decision-making support: Provides high-level analysis and recommendations to support effective leadership decision-making in medical and clinical affairs.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Fosters integration and collaboration between medical affairs and other departments, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to advance business and clinical objectives.
• Operational Effectiveness: Sets clear goals, ensures compliance, manages risk, and optimizes program outcomes to maximize product value and organizational effectiveness.
• Stakeholder management and culture: Drives talent management and cultivates a positive work environment to support team engagement, development, and retention.

You're the right fit if: 

• You've acquired 6+ years of people management experience strongly preferred, 8+ years of experience in Medical/Clinical Affairs within the Medical Device industry. 

• Your skills include profound knowledge of medical device regulations and standards, hands-on domain medical and clinical expertise, including experience in medical/clinical strategy and process development; ideally hands on with software as a medical device and artificial intelligence. 

• You have an MD education required with strong preference towards board-certified cardiologist, radiologist or surgeon backgrounds. Sub specialization in interventional cardiology, radiology or surgery preferred.

• You're an excellent communicator, with strong expertise in project management, clinical study design and management, and demonstrated success driving cross-functional collaboration along the produce lifecycle. You have strong commercial and business acumen, experience with due diligence, patient and user-focused solution thinking; and a demonstrated ability to effectively manage relationships with regulators and professional societies. 

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. 

This role is office-based.

About Philips 

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. 

• Learn more about our business here. 
• Discover our rich and exciting history here. 
• Learn more about our purpose here. 

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 commitment to diversity and inclusion here.