Shijo Thomas Email & Phone Number

20+ years of experience in broad spectrum of PLM responsibilities with R&D Organization from technical to business management across various Healthcare Product lines. Experience in designing and implementing sustainable organizational system with geographically distributed teams for various Product lines development from green-field to legacy. Experience in driving the organization towards the transformational changes, to achieve strategic goals, required time to time.

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  Program Manager

  Siemens Healthineers

  Oct 2017 - Present - Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  Engaged with the global Product development team, built the trust, partnered in main stream of Product development which span across various global sites, for Product strategy. Implemented the Product development strategy to optimize the Product cost, time to market, continuous delivery and improve customer satisfaction. As part of implementation, developed the team (100+ team members) to 80% of global development footprint and built the organization as main partner of choice. Implemented this model across other product development teams, to scale. - Towards the business growth, strategized the integration of product with third party collaboration partners to increase the market share. Played key role in taping into the business opportunities by addressing the key customer demands among the other features. - Designed organization for green-field and legacy products - Influenced the Leadership team in bringing the collaborated shared value for Product Development to add more value from Offshore. - Systematically developed the talent pipeline in higher value-chain roles to optimize the cost of Product development. - Brought up the transformational changes in teams and processes to implement continuous delivery strategy (in order to increase the end customer confidence and maintain the market share) - Envisioned and implemented the initiatives in bringing up higher synergy quotient across the teams and Leadership towards PLM Efficiency - Promoted the cultural and intellectual interchange across the locations, to foster collaboration. - Transformed the Organization for high value add in Product development - Translated the business opportunities and challenges to objectives for functions and orchestrated the Teams - Optimized the maintenance cost by providing essential upgrade channels for diverse flavors of product in the field (Multiple versions in the fields) - Ensured the brand presence of the Organization in global Community