Product Development Lead Job Description
Product development lead
provides quality Leadership - Provide guidance on management of policies and procedures based on the Kimberly-Clark Quality Management System and the ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001 standards and future revisions to these standards.
Product Development Lead Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide business analysis for projects under the direction of a more senior business analyst or project manager
Facilitate requirements gathering
Construct detailed current and end-state process maps/process flows
Partner with Technology and Operations to ensure build requirements are understood
Assist in post-implementation review and closure process
Define & prioritize new opportunities
Develops the product business plan
Collaborate with Designer and APT to procure critical design information related to the technical development requirements of a style or product including
For the assigned category
Review factory prototypes for accuracy, quality and function
Product Development Lead Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Product Development Lead
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PO, PM, SAFE, II, PRINCE, CPIM, API, TDG, WHIMIS
Education for Product Development Lead
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the product development lead job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Technology, Technical, Education, Science, Business, Computer Engineering, Management, Mechanical Engineering
Skills for Product Development Lead
Desired skills for product development lead include:
Specific statistical tools an advantage
ISO 13845
ISO 14971 and ISO 80369 and collateral standards
One of Custody
Products
Regulatory standards applicable to design of medical devices
Aspects of the organization
Business and information systems
Contracting
Formulary management
Desired experience for product development lead includes:
Facilitate the timely execution of pre costing
Negotiate prices and coordinate production allocation through CSC offices
Evaluate the seasonal style source selection process for your product category
Providing overall test strategy and approach for the program
Participates in and provides thought leadership for the requirements meetings with the Customer
Assists the Test Specialists in understanding of the application and writing effective Test Cases
Product Development Lead Examples
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Product Development Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of product development lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product development lead
- Coordinates defect management, TestDirector training and administration
- Schedules QC Process and TestDirector training in the Design/Build phase
- Assisting with testing as necessary
- Facilitate Calendar Adherence meetings with all cross functional partners to identify late styles, root cause of lateness, and discuss mitigation and catch-up strategies
- Builds, provide and updates tracking mechanisms used by other teams to allow for quick and accurate status update on where every style is in the development process
- Work with cross functional to drive issue resolution and develop contingency plans to support delivery commitments, hit fill rates, response to change customer needs and unexpected development and production issues
- Ensure benefit realization and solution adoption to improve profitability and efficiency by offering multiple solutions to calendar timeline and process improvement opportunities
- 1st point of contact for process owners
- Development and roll out of escalation guidelines
- Provide leadership, challenge and support in the design and testing of internal controls and KRIs
Qualifications for product development lead
- Bachelor's degree specializing in related field and eight+ years experience in Sourcing, Planning, Merchandising, or Product Development
- Solid understanding of technical drawings, molding processes, materials, wear test data, footwear technology, patterns, and production processes
- Worked in an Operations, Client Service or Product role
- 10+ years software development experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
- Working with business to understand priorities, mapping requirements into programs and identifying transformation initiatives
- Define programmes outcomes and business cases, ensuring full alignment and buy in of with respective line organisations across GTB and service providers
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Product Development Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product development lead. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product development lead
- Programme/Project management & delivery of complex Change Projects in Custody and Fund services – those of significant scale, complexity & budget and that are generally mandatory in nature
- Be point person for New Product Development Teams in developing labeling strategies, project plans and executing project plans in support of label development for new product launches
- Maintain product label design and process knowledge for those platforms responsible
- Accountable for executing Design Control documentation and execution for label Development
- Responsible for leading collaboration for collecting requirements, alignment on label strategy and label content with Regulatory, Clinical, Quality, R&D and Product Management (PM) as required
- Complete technical writing to translate requirements into Instructions for Use (IFU) and labeling content
- Accountable for working with Labeling execution planning to align label development project plans with the NPD team schedules, escalating and resolving capacity constraints through prioritization, augmenting capacity or relieving project timing as aligned with NPD team and business units
- Accountable for managing multiple project schedules
- Accountable for managing project label development budgets and providing cost assessments as required
- Review and approve documents representing Labeling as outlined per local quality system procedures as appropriate
Qualifications for product development lead
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate into testing scenarios
- Ability to work within a team setting and independently
- Ability to coach and mentor test specialists in the tea
- Define programme delivery plan, identify dependencies and agree resourcing requirements
- Ensure organisational alignment in the design and execution of programme deliverables
- Programme representation at relevant forums, such as Delivery Governance and Platform Committees
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Product Development Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a product development lead. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for product development lead
- Develop 5 year shadow roadmap (competitor futuring) for key competitors including attributes, features and architecture plans
- Competitive deep dives and competitive roadmapping
- Develop and execute market research programmes, using techniques like desk research, surveys, Voice of the Customer (VoC), focus groups, conjoint analysis, competitor benchmarking to qualify/quantify opportunities for offering innovation and differentiation
- Own cross-business unit initiatives such as e-business, intelligence platform, sales support tools
- Very good communication, networking, influencing, facilitation, presentation skills
- Affinity for technology/science incl
- PowerPoint, Analysis for Excel (Business Objects), SharePoint & MS Project
- Significant business related experience (Sales, Marketing, Decision Support …)
- Comfortable handling and interpreting technical information and translating what value that will bring to the customer / end user
- Education to degree level with further study in business or marketing an advantage
Qualifications for product development lead
- Extensive SAP experience, across multiple functional areas and technologies, including CRM, SD, IS-M, IDoc, BRF+, Classic ABAP & ABAP OO
- Solid experience managing multiple projects from start to finish, including all aspects of project from scheduling and resources, architecture, to training and rollout
- Comprehensive development experience, with professional experience in non-SAP enterprise solutions
- Experience working closely with business stakeholders at all levels and in diverse business areas
- Proven ability to learn, assess, and integrate a broad range of new technologies
- Fluency in English, additional language skills are an asset
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Product Development Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product development lead. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for product development lead
- Lead transition of new products into production
- To be self-motivated, goal oriented
- Ability to collaborate effectively across cultures
- Lead performance and stress testing activities to test site reliability and scalability analyze areas of improvement in both application and infrastructure layers
- Conduct performance evaluations of new technology upgrades and critical software/ hardware changes and design and prepare performance/stress/redundancy test plans and scripts
- Leads activities (sub project) within a function under a larger project/program managed by a Project/Program Manager
- Leads the (sum)-project team in the overall planning and execution, balancing scope, schedule and budget
- Executes tests of innovative services delivered through the Milewise Product
- Plans and executes cross functional ideation sessions and ideation exercises (crowdsourcing, app attacks)
- Informs and coordinates primary marketing research pre and post ideation sessions, to inform ideas, test plans, and various steps of the product development process
Qualifications for product development lead
- Keen commercialization instincts as a product manager or line executive in an innovation-oriented data/analytics/research oriented business (minimum 10+ years experience)
- A genuine passion, curiosity & determination for the possibilities of the Data Economy
- Drive the delivery of key core Custody projects
- Significant experience of Banking and Financial Services
- Proven good judgment , particularly on prioritizing your own and others’ workloads
- PhD in Materials Science/ Engineering or Polymer Sci & Engineering or Chemical Engineering
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Product Development Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of product development lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product development lead
- Program/Project management & delivery of complex client change projects in Custody and Fund services – those of significant scale and complexity (across multiple CFS products)
- Executes learning plans, test plans and feasibility studies
- Developing, maintaining and effectively executing project plans according to established priorities, procedures, channels, risks and success expectations
- Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance
- Establishing clear project parameters & ensuring actual vision of situation with projects plans and its correlations
- Liaising and attending meetings with project owner or person in charge to perform duties or solving issues
- Managing a small team of developers
- Becoming an expert and driving leadership and execution in processes, initiatives, and functionality as related to E-commerce oriented Customer Service, Finance, innovation projects such as new ventures (Digital Goods)
- Co-owning the product roadmap along with a business sponsor and ensuring alignment to the rest of the organization
- Driving product definition, with staged engineering execution, go-to-market preparation and rollout strategy for every market
Qualifications for product development lead
- Background in polymer based composite materials design, synthesis and characterization, understanding structure property relationships and applying them to solve problems
- Ability to tackle complex problems/projects, highly developed research and analysis methodology and techniques.Ability to work effectively in teams and interface with customers
- BS in an Engineering Discipline (Aeronautical, Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace) or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to interface with and drive a variety of engineering disciplines throughout the product development process, including electrical, mechanical, material, process, quality, and manufacturing engineers
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to lead problem-solving efforts using Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Ability to define product reliability and qualification requirements, including environmental requirements