Technical Project Manager

Working at the heart of the NPD team your role is to manage projects from the concept stage right through to production. Collaborating with business stakeholders, the R&D development team and manufacturing departments you will guide technologically complex projects through the design process.

Using your industry experience of working with electronics and embedded software teams you will drive the project planning and assist the technical teams in delivery.

During the concept phase you will work with the innovation team distilling ideas into a concrete feasibility plan. Then working with electronics and software architects to create detailed specifications that the engineering team can work from. During the development phase you will help the team leaders manage their workload and deliverables, meanwhile working with the wider business to assist the supply chain and manufacturing departments prepare for the delivery of the new product.

You are expected to have an engineering background, preferably having either worked as an embedded software developer at some point in your career or as part of a team where embedded software played a key role in the products you were developing. Pragmatic project planning should be second nature to you and you will be comfortable communicating your thoughts using collaborative tools such as Confluence.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Championing the NPD process on projects that you are responsible for.
• Concept phase: Working with Marketing and engineering teams to create product definition.
• Feasibility phase: Deep dive into the product design specification, exploring all aspects of the project from a technical and financial point of view. Creating development plans and working with technical teams to ensure the plans are realistic and achievable.
• Development phase: Depending on the type of project and your technical background you may be leading an agile software development team, electronics design team or cross functional groups of people. Constantly keeping the progress of the project in check you will own the reporting line to key group level stakeholders.
• Manufacture phase: Coordination of the transition from development to either in–house manufacture or to a manufacturing partner.

• Third party management. Some projects are entirely in–house and some use third party development and manufacturing partners. You should be experienced in dealing with third parties and confident in your communication skills where complex ideas need explaining to teams who may not operating in their own native language. Sometimes overseas travel may be required.

Skills & Requirements

• An engineering background, degree qualified in relevant engineering discipline, preferably software or electronics related.
• A track record of delivering complex products that mix electronics, embedded software and mechanical design.
• Project Management experience managing cross functional teams with complex dependencies especially in the embedded software domain.
• Third party management skills
• Appreciation of software quality aspects, software QA and the benefits of continuous integration and automated test.
• Proficiency in Atlassian tools such as Confluence and Jira would be an advantage.
• A good working level of French would be an advantage but not essential.