Senior Manager NPD

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Libertyville
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

We Make Life More Rewarding and Dignified
Location: Libertyville
Department: Research & Development Title: Senior Manager, New Product Development - Ostomy
Hierarchical Level: Manager
Division/Department: Research & Development
Reports to: Director, R&D - New Products
Number of Direct Reports: 6-10 Engineers (Associate Engineers to Senior Levels)
Travel: Up to 20% GlobalSummary:The New Product Development Senior Manager is responsible for supporting the strategic plan and successfully executing product design and development for both new products (New Product Commercialization). and enhancements to existing ones. This includes the management and execution of product design, specifications, test method development, product usability, problem-solving, prototypes, Design Excellence, and quality initiatives. The role is responsible for leading, guiding, and developing an R&D team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, creative problem-solving, collaboration, and high-performance, while ensuring the completion of successful projects and initiatives. Strong collaboration with other departments such as marketing, design assurance, quality, clinical, engineering, operations, is essential to ensure alignment across resources, priorities, and projects. Hollister operates in a hybrid work environment.Responsibilities:

• Portfolio Development: Partner with other leads of the business including R&D, GMO and Operations to support development of the future Hollister product portfolio. This includes alignment with Ostomy strategy, support of the pre-charter process, and effective prioritization of projects.
  
• Product design and development: Leads and organizes all product development activities for new products and enhancements to existing ones. Oversees the lifecycle of product development from ideation to market launch. Leads the design and development process (through the NPD team) ensuring good planning and execution of product design on all projects. This includes concept development, usability, problem solving techniques, and creating detailed product drawings, specifications, prototypes, testing, and design controls. Demonstrates customer focus with the ability to understand customer requirements and incorporate them into business and product decisions. As part of Design Excellence, supports and ensures that phased technical design reviews are completed to a high-level and ensures products meets regulatory and market requirements.
  
• Brand/Product Leadership: Partner with the NPD Manager, Dansac to implement best practices for product design and development. Primary role will focus on Hollister products but will include leading and/or supporting specific Dansac product development projects and initiatives.
  
• People management: Leads and motivates direct reports to perform and execute projects as a high performing team member. Motivates reports to achieve personal development and provides stretch assignments to develop talent. Defines training requirements with each Associate for continuous development. Sets impactful objective and goals and continuously coaches on effective design practices, team collaboration, problem-solving, and project management. Hires and retains highly qualified team and provides on-going performance feedback.
  
• Resource management: Effectively and efficiently manages resources including time, budget, and personnel to meet project goals and deadlines.
  
• Functional Development: In collaboration with R&D manager peers and Human Resources, manages the performance and development of the New Product Development function. This includes developing and maintaining the skills, competencies, expertise, and knowledge required.
  
• Collaboration: Works with team members to ensure good planning and execution of product design and development activities/requirements (includes design, specs, test methods, problem-solving techniques, design controls, Design Excellence, etc.). Effectively works with cross-functional management team to support high-performing teams and
  
• Customer Knowledge: Demonstrates customer focus and agility with the ability to understand a range of customer requirements (clinician, end-user, payer, and channel) and support the NPD team to incorporate these needs into business and product and business decisions. Leads the team in learning and understanding customer needs and product usability.
  
• Business Acumen: Ability to think from an overall 'best for the business' perspective. This includes effective decision-making skills with the ability to negotiate and balance decisions and priorities across diverse needs. Makes timely decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty.
  
• Design Excellence: Partners with Global Engineering to lead the overall Design Excellence program (primarily front-end) to ensure user, design and development, and process considerations have been raised, understood, assessed, and tested as necessary.
  
• Individual contributor: Acts as a technical individual contributor for large projects or programs. This may include supporting or leading projects as a R&D lead, assisting project teams with technical knowledge, or completing a special assignment in support of functional or business strategy.
  
• Annual budget: Prepares the annual New Product Development budget to ensure project, product, and development activities are adequately resourced and monitored throughout the year. This also includes mid-year reporting, year-end reporting, and working with the project teams (project manager and R&D engineer) quarterly to understand key milestones as it relates to the project budget.
  
• Other duties as assigned or required
  
  Requirements:

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• Number of Overall Years Necessary: 12-15
  
• Experience in medical device or related healthcare manufacturing, minimum 5 years supervisory experience
  
  
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  • Required: Bachelor's degree in Engineering (or Science)
    
  • Master's degree in Science or Engineering or Masters of Business (MBA) preferred
    
    Specialized Skills/Technical Knowledge:
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    • Extensive product design and development experience in similar environment
      
    • Proven ability to develop a team culture that leads to ongoing excellence and achievement of goals
      
    • Strong leadership skills including the ability to set goals and provide constructive feedback respectfully to build positive relationships and improve business results
      
    • Strong leadership skills, decision making, and project management skills
      
    • Ability to concurrently manage a variety of projects and coordinate the efforts of multiple team members
      
    • Expertise in problem-solving skills and tools (i.e. Root Cause Analysis, Design of Experiments) with the ability to teach, coach, and train the NPD team
      
    • Design controls knowledge
      
    • Ability to analyze and use technical data and resources
      
    • Ability to understand all dimensions of customer requirements and knowledge of the clinical environment
      
    • Strong verbal and written communications with the ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
      
    • Ability to collaborate and work effectively with functions outside of R&D
      
    • Work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment
      
    • Work with external suppliers, contractors, technical professionals, and consultants as needed.
      
    • Fundamental understanding of process development and manufacturing as it relates to product development
      
    • Ability to create a vision and mobilize the team to execute against it
      
    • Maintains positive and cooperative communication and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and suppliers
      
    • Knowledge of FDA Quality System Regulations (QSRs)
      
    • Proficient in English; clear, consise communication
      
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      Our Total Rewards package in aggregate is above market and includes competitive pay, paid time off programs, peer-to-peer recognition, health and life insurance, wellness programs and incentives, generous retirement savings, and a unique Benefit of Employee Share Ownership Program (BESOP).
      
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      • The anticipated base pay range for this position is $140,000 - $204,000 yearly. The actual salary varies based on applicant's location, education, experience, skills, abilities, and other legitimate business factors.
        
      • If applicable: This position is also eligible to participate in the Hollister Secure Start Bonus Plan. The Company also provides a unique Benefit of Employee Share Ownership Program (BESOP) program based on earnings and length of service.
        
      • The Company's health and welfare benefits include medical, prescription, dental, vision, spending/savings accounts, disability, company paid (parental and caregiver) leaves, statutory leaves/disability programs, accident, life, wellbeing, education assistance, adoption assistance, and voluntary benefit programs.
        
      • The Company's 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan includes: auto-enrollment, ROTH, vesting and eligible participants "safe harbor" matching contributions.
        
      • The Company's paid time off benefits include: 11 paid holidays, paid vacation based on length of service and exempt/non-exempt status, and sick days based on statutory requirements and/or exempt/non-exempt status.
        
      • The Company's additional benefits include: education assistance and adoption assistance benefit programs.
        
        About Hollister Incorporated
        Hollister Incorporated is an independent, employee-owned company that develops, manufactures and markets healthcare products worldwide. The company spearheads the advancement of innovative products for ostomy care, continence care and critical care, and also creates educational support materials for patients and healthcare professionals. Headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, Hollister has manufacturing and distribution centers on three continents and sells in nearly 80 countries. Hollister is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Firm of John Dickinson Schneider, Inc., and is guided both by its Mission to make life more rewarding and dignified for people who use our products and services, as well as its Vision to grow and prosper as an independent, employee-owned company, and in the process, to become better human beings.EOE Statement
        All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
        Job Req ID: 34093Job Segment: R&D, Marketing Manager, Product Development, Front End, Project Manager, Research, Marketing, Technology

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