New Product Development Manager

About the role

The New Product Development Manager serves as an Integrated Product Team Leader and plays a hands-on leadership role in driving complex projects from concept through development and into production. This position coordinates engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance teams to deliver highly engineered products that meet demanding technical, cost, and schedule requirements. The role requires a highly organized, results-driven professional who can influence outcomes across a matrixed organization, maintain strong alignment with customer and business objectives, and ensure smooth execution in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This is a Permanent position based out of Moorpark, CA, fully onsite. The position is anticipated to close on Oct 23, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full lifecycle execution of assigned projects, including defining and controlling scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk.
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance to ensure alignment and effective execution of project objectives.
• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and milestones that support customer requirements and business goals.
• Drive decision-making related to schedule, budget, and technical trade-offs to maintain project performance and meet delivery commitments.
• Partner closely with program management to align execution plans with customer expectations, statements of work, and contractual obligations.
• Establish and maintain effective operating rhythms, including project reviews, status meetings, and performance metrics, to ensure execution success.
• Hold team members accountable for commitments and drive timely completion of project deliverables.
• Identify project risks early, develop robust mitigation plans, and proactively address issues that could impact schedule, cost, or technical performance.
• Monitor project financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, earned value and variance analysis, and corrective action planning.
• Provide regular, transparent status updates to leadership on project health, key risks, recovery plans, and financial performance.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and structured problem-solving efforts to enhance efficiency, quality, and execution outcomes.
• Support proposal development activities by contributing execution plans, resource estimates, cost inputs, and schedule recommendations.
• Ensure a smooth and controlled transition of projects from development into production environments.
• Maintain compliance with customer requirements, statements of work, internal processes, and formal project execution or stage-gate management systems.
• Capture lessons learned and implement best practices to improve future project execution and organizational performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
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