Director of new product development job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Employee Value Proposition:

Lead the team developing Abbott Electrophysiology's Next Generation platform projects. These are top priority programs with high visibility in a high growth business that will play a major role in shaping our future portfolio. Key performance measures include:

* Lead cross-functional core teams and development activities to meet program objectives including scope, quality, budget, and schedule. Core responsibilities include:
* Project planning and contracting
* Budget planning
* Resource planning
* Regular executive status updates
* Project financial metrics such as ROI, budget, COGS, and capital
* Creating and maintaining schedules

* Devise and execute against a system-level plan that incorporates cross-functional dependencies including those between sub-functions within R&D.
* Adhere to the business process governance and complete phase deliverables to drive project progression.
* Communicate and drive alignment with all levels of the organization on the objectives, risks, and needs for the program.
* Identify opportunities for improving overall business performance of the program.
* Develop plans with core members to eliminate and/or mitigate risk. If risks cannot be mitigated within the core team, determine appropriate means to communicate and elevate issues to appropriate individuals within the organization.
* Manage/mentor associate project managers directly involved with the same project.
* Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
* Maintain a safe and professional work environment.
* Establish and maintain the program and product Design History File.
* Comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING

Required

* Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related
* 12+ years of leadership experience in Engineering, R&D, and/or Quality within a medical device/biomedical, high technology, and/or regulated industry
* Demonstrated success bringing a complex medical device through development to commercial launch
* 5+ years project management of electro-mechanical systems (electrical, mechanical and firmware/software)

Preferred

* Advanced level degree(s) in Engineering, Sciences, Business Administration, or a related discipline
* Extensive medical device industry experience
* PMP Certification

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

* Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
* Student Loan Repayment Assistance
* Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
* Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
* Paid time off
* 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
* The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The Director, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, New Product Development, will lead an engineering group for the Transcatheter Heart Valve business unit. This leadership role will manage a team that is focus on the development of next-generation manufacturing technologies used to produce our best-in-class devices.
Essential job functions:

+ Plan and direct strategic program activities including prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects with overall responsibility for meeting business objectives. Lead in identifying risk, developing complex mitigation strategies, alternative solutions, resolving issues, etc. in collaboration with cross functional groups.

+ Manage subordinate team members and engineering activities with overall responsibility of staffing, planning, budgeting, managing expense priorities, performance management, and working through managers to achieve results.

+ Lead efforts to obtain input, provide recommendations and establish strategies for manufacturing technologies that addresses the needs from cross-functional stakeholders in the organization including R&D, Quality, Factory Engineering, Marketing groups.

+ Survey emerging manufacturing technologies and explore novel applications to support strategic goals.

+ Develop a robust talent development and succession planning in alignment with functional growth strategies across own organization.

+ Define and lead the implementation of the organizational structure to drive business initiatives and advise and gain buy-in from senior leadership.

+ Set engineering strategy to optimize business processes, define and implement core competencies, by assessing business needs and developing, proposing, and implementing solution options.

+ Partner with manufacturing sites and key partners in the organization to develop new manufacturing technologies.

+ Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Scientific.

+ 10+ years of professional experience with proven expertise managing advance manufacturing groups and/or deploying new manufacturing technologies as part of New Product Development.

+ Provide leadership and direction to large cross-functional teams to successfully implement systems and related solutions.

+ Proven successful project management leadership skills.

+ ~20% domestic/international.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Experience working in a regulated industry (preferable in medical devices).

+ Significant experience and ability to develop new manufacturing processes.

+ Expert understanding of engineering procedures while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems.

+ Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making.

+ Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives.

+ Expert understanding of related aspects of engineering processes and/or systems.

+ Knowledge of financial acumen as it relates to the business as well as engineering.

+ Demonstrated ability to direct teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations.

+ Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of engineering to the business.

+ Interacts with senior management, and others concerning matters of significance to the company.

+ Conduct business and technical briefings for senior and top management and for external representatives.

+ Proven expertise in both Microsoft Office Suite and related systems.

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Edwards is committed to complying with the requirements and guidance from our government authorities and to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them around the world. As such, all Healthcare Interacting positions require COVID-19 vaccination, which includes anyone who directly interfaces with patients and those who interact with healthcare providers as part of their role. If hired, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have a valid religious or medical exemption from being vaccinated.

Who We Are: With a 17 year legacy of beauty and skin care excellence, helmed by global icon Cindy Crawford, Meaningful Beauty is poised to enter its next stage of growth and expansion. Founded on the concept of supporting women to look and feel their best, most confident, most authentic and most relevant at every age, we seek to find our Sr Director of New Product & Research Development leader who can give creative life to this mission.

Meaningful Beauty is seeking a Senior Director, New Product Development/ R&D to help propel the brand to its next stage of product newness evolution. This position will report to GM/SVP, Commercial Strategy & Go To Market.

Meaningful Beauty operates on a flexible hybrid work environment, and therefore this role will be conducted on a remote basis with the requirement of in-office presence as desired or needed (including but not limited to, meetings, team collaboration, group events, etc).
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

+ Practical knowledge and experience in product development (Skincare, Color Cosmetics, Haircare, Body Care), both consumer and product as well as working knowledge of formulation chemistry and ingredient functionality for beauty products.

+ As most senior representative of R&D, act as liaison with internal and external parties on matters relating to both the custom formula development and procurement of new product formulations (including international requirements and regulatory changes).

+ Collaborate with cross functional teams (Package Development, Supply Chain, Brand Management, Regulatory, Retail and Live Shopping, Purchasing and Quality Assurance) to ensure comprehensive formula management.

+ Initiate the development of technology and ingredient formation. Screen outside opportunities leveraging vendors and manufacturers R&D process capabilities to recommend new product innovations.

+ Co-develop (with the Brand Management and Acquisition departments) and maintain a 3-year revolving Product Launch Calendar.

+ Assist in the generation of Product Development Profiles for all new products and line extensions as assigned.

+ Plan and formulate aspects of research and development proposals such as objective or purpose of project, applications that can be utilized from findings, costs/cost constraints of project that may impact ability to deliver desired products, i.e. identifying alternate ingredients or suppliers to plan and accomplish goals.

+ Implement project tech transfer on existing R&D formulations (in collaboration with Global Supply Chain and Quality teams).

+ Negotiate contracts with third party development labs to perform research, custom formulations, or other applicable needed studies.

+ Manage overall annual budget to ensure cost-effective and efficient best practices for company.

+ Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

+ Meet regularly with suppliers to review new technologies and stay abreast of new research and formulation techniques, market trends, raw materials, etc.

+ Implement /oversee clinical efficacy trials (i.e., in-vitro, ex-vivo testing) together with external testing team(s) and Legal.

+ Initiate pre-pilot R&D bulk stability testing and work with regulatory on all formula safety related testing linked to key developmental milestones.

+ Oversee library of all formula assets and reformulation projects when requested by regulatory or brand.

+ Keep a close finger on the pulse of the industry regarding evolving trends and the competitive environment with a focus on "Clean" beauty.

+ Adhere to company's regulatory and legal requirements on all products.

Experience and Skills:

+ Bachelor's Degree

+ At least 10+ year's industry experience in Product Development and Management

+ Strong knowledge of formula sustainability, claims substantiation (OTC and Cosmetic) and trends in the beauty industry along with technical expertise and aesthetic sense for all Skincare, Color Cosmetics and Haircare products, and oral care as applicable.

+ Broad knowledge of cosmetic manufacturing with all related expertise (i.e.) prerequisites to approve contract vendor use, cost of goods development, filling lines, packaging, MRP systems, inventory control, FDA Certification requirements, and worldwide regulations.

+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detail-oriented with excellent follow-through abilities, ability to work in a fast-paced environment and efficiently work with vendors and internal departments while prioritizing workload.

+ Travel - as applicable in current environment

Environmental, Psychological and Physiological Requirements:

+ Some work may need to be performed inside a multi-story office building with elevators and stairs.

+ The person must be able to remain in a stationary position for up to 50% of the time.

+ Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery and conference rooms.

+ Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery such as a copy machine, printer and calculator.

+ Frequently communicates with employees who have inquiries.

+ Ability to learn technical material and apply the knowledge to their work.

Meaningful Beauty provides competitive salary and benefits.

Meaningful Beauty is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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