Job Ref: 213447961

Date: 2021-03-29 11:26:10

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New Product Development Manager – Engineering
NPD Projects

Fantastic opportunity for a motivated New Product Development Manager with experience of managing the delivery of development projects through the complete project life-cycle to work with a team of bright, highly motivated multi-disciplined engineers on leading edge development projects.

Due to a strong order book, sustained growth and investment in new product development and innovation the need has arisen for a New Product Development Manager to drive the development of competitive product solutions, features and applications for a complex, high value product range.

You will utilise your strong leadership and engineering management background to work closely with customers to develop their specifications into world class design solutions.

As Product Development / Project Manager you will have a small team of skilled engineers reporting into you and will have responsibility through the whole project lifecycle on NPI / development projects from concept to full scale manufacture.

You will be given the autonomy to completely own the NPD practices within the business, allowing you to implement your best practice project management expertise and utilise your first class leadership and technical acumen to its full potential.

With responsibility for one large or several concurrent projects at any one time you will be accountable for:

Transforming ideas, new product projects and customer specifications into world class design solutions.

Supporting existing products, develop new systems and control strategies and solutions
Provide first class leadership to develop both the individual team members as well as improve the technical processes and tools.

Work closely with the Product Manager to ensure new products meet / exceed market and business requirements.

An engineering background is essential as you will be supporting a highly skilled team of hardware, software, mechanical and electronic engineers.

The position will suit a talented individual with:

– Proven experience of managing complex new product development (NPD) projects within a manufacturing / engineering environment, ideally complex high value electro-mechanical or related products

– Degree qualified in an engineering or closely related discipline or with commensurate experience

– First class influencing and presentation skills are required as this is a high visibility role

– A background of project managing complex high value electro-mechanical or related products

Proven experience of timely product launching

Please contact Alison Kemp for further details / to discuss your applications or apply via the link

Likely to suit individuals as a background as (but not limited to) New Product Manager, NPD Manager, Development Manager, NPI Project Manager or similar

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