NPD Manager

NPD Manager – Caerphilly

Salary: £40k-£45k DOE

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

Working hours: Monday – Friday - 07:30 till 16:30,

We are seeking an experienced NPD Manager to join a large successful company based near Caerphilly.

Key Responsibilities:

• To aid defining the range strategy to ensure we strengthen the value proposition.
• To manage the whole product development lifecycle from brief to successful launch.
• Range planning process including upkeep with range amendments, deletions, and product introductions.
• Running the weekly NPD meeting to progress report range development and critical path decision making.
• Critical path timeline management to success launch.
• Successful on time development of new products, accessories and point-of-sale materials and displays.
• Present new product ideas for assessment along with feasibility costings.
• Direct briefing and liaison with overseas factories. Teams calls and in person if deemed appropriate.
• Ensuring all new products meet quality, technical, and production requirements.
• Drafting and signing off specifications in line with the new products being developed.
• Working with the Purchasing team to firm up costings and liaison with factories.
• Brainstorming new ideas to meet customer requirements.
• Studying customer requirement to develop new ideas.
• Competitive set and benchmarking analysis with presentations to the internal team with proposals.
• Sampling requirements with factories to meet concepts briefed.
• Undertake trials and assist customers in achieving successful technical performance.
• Ensuring all products are fully compliant and legal including FSC, EUTR etc.
• Signing off samples requirements and handing over to the Quality team to ensure compliance to specifications.
• Manage sample requirement to meet photography, development sign off, internal launch and play a hand in first-off gold seal sign off.
• Work with the Quality Manger and undertake risk analysis with FMEA and other such tools.
• As the product owner, determining which product features should be highlighted, ensuring that product features in scope are ready for development and carrying out acceptance tests on developed features.

Requirements:

• Creative thinking skills
• Project management skills
• Facilitation skills
• Research skills.
• Product knowledge
• Great communicator for all levels, across cultures and can sell the product vision and benefits
• Negotiations, influencing and persuasion skills
• Commercial skills (costing and numerate)