Innovation Manager

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Management, Innovation and Growth Leaders, and Platform Engineering Leaders to establish and execute a strategy to manage the product portfolio through effective rationalization of overlapping products
• Oversee and monitor the execution of approved product development projects to ensure that the projects are executed in a professional manner to meet the defined project objectives, and leverage the global capabilities/expertise of the company
• Ensure product safety and regulatory compliance through implementation of rigorous design control procedures and protocols
• Drive product standardization and component rationalization and reuse
• Reinforce the design authority role to drive centralization of product design engineering through clear definition and documentation of product design practices
• Identify and develop specialist engineering skills within the Product Engineering team and oversee an effective process to ensure the effective utilization of these skills across the enterprise
• Oversee the preparation of RCCP charts to drive the management of Product Engineering capacity while fostering a culture of engineering resource management driven through RCCP

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in a supervisory position over technical staff within the rotating equipment industry
• Demonstrated ability to apply technology to creatively solve problems and meet business and stakeholder needs
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage strong team, customer, and internal relationships including a history of developing collaborative relationships
• Demonstrated ability to accomplish key results through influence
• Pioneered ability to adapt to changing organizational environment and business needs
• Proven ability to work with geographically dispersed teams with culturally diverse membership
• BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 8-10 years relevant experience

Preferred Experience / Skills

• Demonstrated experience in a supervisory position over technical staff within the rotating equipment industry
• Demonstrated ability to apply technology to creatively solve problems and meet business and stakeholder needs
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage strong team, customer, and internal relationships including a history of developing collaborative relationships
• Demonstrated ability to accomplish key results through influence
• Pioneered ability to adapt to changing organizational environment and business needs
• Proven ability to work with geographically dispersed teams with culturally diverse membership
• BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 8-10 years relevant experience