Senior Software Manager

Job Title

Senior Software Manager

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:
• Manages homogeneous competency areas or activities across several groups, defining budgets and supervising costs, methods, and staffing to ensure efficient and effective operations.
• Provides strategic guidance and direction to software professionals, ensuring their work aligns with organizational goals and fostering their professional growth through continuous feedback and support.
• Understands the product creation process, ensuring that all team members are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to successfully implement software development processes.
• Plans with a time horizon of a year, setting clear objectives and timelines to meet long-term goals and deliverables while adapting to any changes in project scope or requirements.
• Executes continuous improvement initiatives in processes and ways of working to achieve operational excellence, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness across teams.
• Makes informed business and technical decisions promptly, based on thorough data gathering, effective analysis, and sound judgment, balancing immediate tasks with the organization's long-term strategic vision.
• Ensures delivery of high-quality software at a sustainable pace, maintaining advanced levels of software craftsmanship as established by the Software Center of Excellence.
• Interacts regularly with lower and/or senior management or executive levels regarding matters spanning multiple functional areas, divisions, and/or customers.
• Ensures adherence to all applicable development processes, legal standards, quality metrics, security protocols, and regulatory requirements to maintain compliance and excellence.
• Manages talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.

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.
About Philips
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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.