New Product Development Manager (NPD/NPI) | Abingdon | £90,000pa - £95,000pa plus benefits:
Do you enjoy delivering complex innovative mechanical based instrumentation and innovation in a New Product Development Manager (NPD/NPI) capacity? Have you led and managed the new product development process of highly complex mechanical systems, either magnetics, cryogenics, instrumentation or quantum computing?
Our client is a global manufacturing giant who has supplied the scientific research community for over 75 years. As their New Product Development Manager (NPD/NPI), you will lead the design and development of new products and derivatives aligned with market and customer requirements. You will define and deliver the NPI roadmap, ensuring products are successfully integrated into manufacturing and service strategies while meeting all compliance, safety, reliability, and cost targets. With an NPI Project Team to manage, the New Product Development Manager (NPD/NPI) will need to blend technical knowhow with a coaching and development management style in order for you to manage your team to successfully deliver against your NPD and NPI milestones.
About you:
The successful New Product Development Manager (NPD/NPI) will need the following experience and skills:
* A strong team player, you’ll bring a strategic and commercially aware mindset, along with a passion for continuous improvement and professional development.
* A technical degree or PhD in the area of Physics or Engineering, ideally in the areas of Cryogenics, ULT Physics, Magnetics of Low Temperature Instrumentation
* Evidence of high initiative and recognised capability in Magnetics of ULT or technical product development
* 10+ years working in a product development or research environment with a history of hardware development, delivering good papers / written results.
* Recognised Subject Matter Expert in own area.
* Demonstrated capability in product development and NPI, ideally in the cryogenics market space.
* Ability to author or review development proposals to ensure they are specific, deliverable and risks are understood, characterised and mitigated.
* Evidence of developing collaborations and supplier developments to facilitate product delivery.
* Proven understanding of compliance frameworks for scientific instruments, CE, UL, etc.
* Able to motivate and develop a technical team to achieve targets and to performance manage as required
Our client is offering a hybrid working arrangement with 3 days in their offices and 2 days from home. This is New Product Project depended. There is flexible start and finish times so you can plan your day around your preferred hours.
This company offers amazing benefits, a competitive starting salary, structured career development opportunities, and a good work-life balance, our client offers 25 days annual leave, half-days on Fridays, private healthcare, a share incentive plan, a defined contribution Personal Pension Plan, and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your own requirements.
For more information on the client, their products, career development, benefits etc, please send MARS a copy of your CV or drop Lee Cherrill a linkedin connection request or contact him through the MARS Recruitment website.
MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven’t heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.
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