Job Description & Key Result Areas
Position: New Product Development (Electronics) Lead
Reporting to: Head of Product Development & Commercialisation. In future to Global Research & New Product Development Director
Business Division: Printed Electronics
Location: Bengaluru/Pune
Scope: 2 Facilities in India
Seeking for a highly experienced New Product Development Lead to drive the ideation development and commercialization of groundbreaking products in the rapidly growing field of printed electronics. The incumbent will play a critical role in translating innovative concepts into marketready solutions.
Opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation in the exciting field of printed electronics. Work in a fastpaced and dynamic environment with a team of passionate and talented Engineers.
Key Expectation:
- Drive the developing new application. Well versed with embedded hardware embedded software and circuitry to design.
- Conduct indepth market research to identify new business opportunities and unmet customer needs within the printed electronics space.
- Stay current on the latest advancements in printed electronics technologies materials and fabrication techniques.
- Generate creative product ideas aligned with market trends and company strategy fostering a culture of innovation within your team.
- Develop and manage the entire new product development process for printed electronics including feasibility studies prototyping testing and pilot production.
- Manage project timelines budgets and resources to ensure ontime and onbudget delivery.
- Lead and collaborate with crossfunctional teams (engineering design marketing sales) to bring new printed electronics products to market successfully.
- Define product specifications and ensure new products meet all quality performance and costefficiency standards.
- Oversee postlaunch product performance gather customer feedback and utilize learnings to inform future product iterations.
- The incumbent is responsible for leading the organization in research for new products product enhancements and product redesign.
- The incumbent would evaluate the potential and practicality of products in development and relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Drive product innovation and experiment to keep library of various material combinations to beat customer specifications.
- Deliver customer samples extremely fast & first time right in quality
- Creates a prototype of a new product in order to iron out flaws in the final design
- Prepares a cost analysis on the development of a new product
Additionally:
- Ensure speedy & accurate handover to production
- Proactive approach to new developments
- Will be managing existing product engineering team.
- Presents new ideas to the management in order to gain permission to develop product lines
- Incumbent will closely work with the engineering design marketing sales etc
- Ability to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions
- Deep understanding of printed electronics technologies including printing methods materials and device functionalities.
- Proven ability to manage complex technical projects and translate research findings into commercially viable products.
- Excellent leadership communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead and collaborate with diverse teams.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with a datadriven approach to decision making.
Technical Skills Set Expectations:
- Minimum 15 years of experience with a proven track record in both research and new product development ideally in the printed electronics industry.
- Experience with project management methodologies (e.g. Agile StageGate) is a plus.
- Proficiency in relevant software tools for product development (e.g. design simulation software) is preferred
- Process of Electronic Product Design & Development
- Concept Development
- Creation of Preliminary Production Design
- Estimation of Production Cost
- Creation of Schematics Circuit
- PCB Designs
- PCB Prototyping
- Testing & Validations
- Design Refinements
- Documentation Certificates & Compliances
Qualification:
- Bachelors degree in engineering material science electronic mechanical or equivalent
Key Result Areas:
Key Scopes | Targets |
Revenue & Market Share | |
Customer Adoption & Satisfaction | |
High Potential New Product Concepts | |
Concept to Launch Success Rate | |
Reduced time to market | |
ROI | |
Hiring Retention & Development of the Team | |
Cross Functional Collaboration | |
Competencies & Attributes:
Behavioural Competencies | Leadership Attributes |
- Enterprise Innovation
- Quality Focus
- Winning Together
- Customer Centricity
- Accountability & Ownership
- Continuous Learning
| - Strategic Thinking
- Risk Taking
- Agility
- Result Oriented
- Resilient
- Collaboration
- Process Driven
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