NPD Manager – Caerphilly
Salary: £40k-£45k DOE
Job Type: Permanent, Full-time
Working hours: Monday – Friday - 07:30 till 16:30,
We are seeking an experienced NPD Manager to join a large successful company based near Caerphilly.
Key Responsibilities:
- To aid defining the range strategy to ensure we strengthen the value proposition.
- To manage the whole product development lifecycle from brief to successful launch.
- Range planning process including upkeep with range amendments, deletions, and product introductions.
- Running the weekly NPD meeting to progress report range development and critical path decision making.
- Critical path timeline management to success launch.
- Successful on time development of new products, accessories and point-of-sale materials and displays.
- Present new product ideas for assessment along with feasibility costings.
- Direct briefing and liaison with overseas factories. Teams calls and in person if deemed appropriate.
- Ensuring all new products meet quality, technical, and production requirements.
- Drafting and signing off specifications in line with the new products being developed.
- Working with the Purchasing team to firm up costings and liaison with factories.
- Brainstorming new ideas to meet customer requirements.
- Studying customer requirement to develop new ideas.
- Competitive set and benchmarking analysis with presentations to the internal team with proposals.
- Sampling requirements with factories to meet concepts briefed.
- Undertake trials and assist customers in achieving successful technical performance.
- Ensuring all products are fully compliant and legal including FSC, EUTR etc.
- Signing off samples requirements and handing over to the Quality team to ensure compliance to specifications.
- Manage sample requirement to meet photography, development sign off, internal launch and play a hand in first-off gold seal sign off.
- Work with the Quality Manger and undertake risk analysis with FMEA and other such tools.
- As the product owner, determining which product features should be highlighted, ensuring that product features in scope are ready for development and carrying out acceptance tests on developed features.
Requirements:
- Creative thinking skills
- Project management skills
- Facilitation skills
- Research skills.
- Product knowledge
- Great communicator for all levels, across cultures and can sell the product vision and benefits
- Negotiations, influencing and persuasion skills
- Commercial skills (costing and numerate)