Innovation Partnership Lead
About The Position
Innovation Partnership Lead You will own the Philips and VUMC innovation partnership development strategy and lead its execution, ensuring the partnership remains relevant and high-impact over time. This role involves interacting with executive stakeholders, day to day collaboration with healthcare professionals and compliance and legal teams, to drive a collaboration that is instrumental to Philips’ innovation agenda. Your role: Create and execute a partnership development strategy aligned to both organizations’ priorities, translating strategic intent into a structured innovation agenda and project funnel. Own partnership governance with VUMC counterparts, including steering, reporting, and transparency on progress and outcomes. Identify and develop joint innovation capabilities across Philips and VUMC, aimed at accelerating R&D, enabling faster translation from clinical insight to scalable innovation. Ensure operational excellence of the innovation program: end-to-end tracking, timely delivery, issue/risk management, and escalation when needed. Serve as Philips’ primary reference for VUMC’s innovation ecosystem, surfacing insights and opportunities that strengthen the partnership. Facilitate alignment across Philips Businesses and Functions to enable successful co-creation and enterprise-wide impact. Promote partnership achievements through internal and external communications and contribute to Philips-wide clinical partnership learning.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in a scientific, engineering or medical field; PhD or MD preferred.
- 7 years of experience in the healthcare industry, ideally in partnership management, research, or innovation.
- Knowledge of VUMC and/or Philips strongly desired.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to confidently lead meetings with senior and executive stakeholders.
- Proven experience managing innovation programs within complex, matrixed organizations through influence.
- Experience with healthcare data management is preferred
- Experience working with leading hospitals or academic medical centers is a strong asset.
- You are able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this Office/Remote position.
- US work authorization is a precondition of employment.
- For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Nashville TN.
Responsibilities
- Create and execute a partnership development strategy aligned to both organizations’ priorities, translating strategic intent into a structured innovation agenda and project funnel.
- Own partnership governance with VUMC counterparts, including steering, reporting, and transparency on progress and outcomes.
- Identify and develop joint innovation capabilities across Philips and VUMC, aimed at accelerating R&D, enabling faster translation from clinical insight to scalable innovation.
- Ensure operational excellence of the innovation program: end-to-end tracking, timely delivery, issue/risk management, and escalation when needed.
- Serve as Philips’ primary reference for VUMC’s innovation ecosystem, surfacing insights and opportunities that strengthen the partnership.
- Facilitate alignment across Philips Businesses and Functions to enable successful co-creation and enterprise-wide impact.
- Promote partnership achievements through internal and external communications and contribute to Philips-wide clinical partnership learning.
Benefits
- Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
