Design Manager

Role & responsibilities

Preferred Industry Type: Fasteners Manufacturing

• Drive New Growth Opportunities, Identify, prioritize, develop, and launch new products.
• Create new organizational capabilities, including technical and people-driven, that ensure a steady stream of innovations in new product category.
• Ensures the company is successful in taking its new products to market in a timely and scalable way.
• Leads and coordinates engineering team and operations including quality assurance, testing, production and development of new and existing product lines.
• Facilitates communication with customers and engineers, ensuring specifications, budgets, and deadlines are clearly communicated and understood.
• Serves as project manager for multiple projects, creating timelines and cost projections, organizing collaborative meetings, and ensuring projects comply with specifications, timelines, and budgets.
• Reviews work and projects for technical accuracy.
• Establishes, implements, and maintains administrative policies, procedures, and standards.
• Maintains knowledge of new trends, developments, technologies, materials, and best practices; applies this knowledge to continually improve product lines and production efficiency.

Preferred candidate profile

- Must possess an inquisitive and creative mind.

- Must be independent and self-directed but able to work and lead a team of creative individuals.

- Superior research and analytical skills to track and predict trends.

- Must be able to work creatively within a budget and use innovation to find ways of more effectively managing resources.

- Strong business knowledge, understanding of a variety of business practices, and familiarity with the companys industry.

- Must be able to collaborate with executives, creative teams, research and development, and product development teams.

- Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to persuasively sell ideas.

Must be willing to take calculated risks and manage expectations of both internal development teams and potential and existing customers.