Product Development Manager

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As a Product Development Manager you will be responsible for driving the schedule, cost, and quality for your products. Being a highly motivated team leader will be essential for success. You will lead multiple small, mid and large projects from concept through First Customer Ship, following Belkin’s Product Development processes. The job involves frequent interaction with internal cross-functional team members, division executive staff members, partners and vendors, sales account teams and occasionally, end customers. The work scope will include, but is not limited to, management of the product design, execution, and test activities, product introduction, and post product delivery support. You will possess the ability to promote collaborative decision-making, provide direction and establish a big sense of urgency in the project team. Must be able to objectively evaluate risks to project objectives and be comfortable making difficult technical decisions, as well as deal with a certain degree of ambiguity and is capable of making sound business decisions with minimal guidance.

• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple concurrent projects (usually at different stages of the life cycle).
• Manage projects involving cross-functional disciplines of Design, Engineering, Operations, Marketing and Finance in a matrix management organization.
• Deliver projects under budget, resource and time constraints established in the project plan.
• Create risk management list and contingency plans. Decide upon and execute contingency plans, when required.
• Report project status to multi-tiered audiences composed of team, peers, BU directors and executive staff audiences.
• Projects may involve a mix of in-bound OEM/ODM, remote development and support teams, internal development and support teams.
• Drive continuous improvement to increase industry-leading best practices in product development.
• Fulfill responsibilities under ISO 9001 and 14001; understand and fully support IS0 system.
• Comply with Health and Safety requirements of Belkin.
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment.
• Understand and follow company rules and regulations.
• Perform all other duties as assigned and required.

• Bachelor Degree with an engineering concentration or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 5 – 8 years of the experience must be in a role as a successful, demonstrated project manager with involvement from initial concept through product launch.
• PMP or similar Project Management certification is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Project.
• Proficiency in PLM toolkit software (Oracle’s Agile) a plus.