New Product Development Manager

You are a highly experienced and strategic NPD Manager responsible for leading and overseeing the end-to-end development of electronic products, including PCBA and Box Build assemblies. Your role is crucial in driving product innovation, ensuring design feasibility, managing cross-functional collaboration, and optimizing processes for cost, quality, and efficiency. With over a decade of experience in New Product Development within the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry, you bring strong leadership and technical expertise to the table. Your key responsibilities include: - Driving the complete NPD lifecycle from concept to production, developing project plans, allocating resources, and ensuring timely execution of product milestones. - Overseeing BOM scrubbing, analysis, and validation for accuracy, manufacturability, and cost-effectiveness, ensuring alignment with sourcing and engineering standards. - Leading design feasibility reviews, risk assessments, and ensuring compliance with Design for Manufacturability and Testability practices. - Collaborating with manufacturing teams to ensure smooth production ramp-up, defining and optimizing processes, control plans, and tooling requirements. - Ensuring all NPD activities meet internal quality standards and external regulatory requirements, leading product validation, supplier audits, and process checks. - Leading component selection, managing lifecycle, and obsolescence planning, identifying alternate components, and driving Engineering Change Management (ECM). - Managing prototype builds and validation cycles for PCBA and Box Builds, ensuring performance, cost, and timeline objectives are met. - Coordinating with design, procurement, quality, production, and customer teams to ensure alignment on product requirements and deliverables. - Acting as a technical interface with key customers, understanding their requirements, providing regular updates, and supporting product transitions into production. - Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. Requirements: - Bachelor's Degree in Electronics / Electrical Engineering (Masters preferred). - 10+ years of experience in NPD within the EMS or electronics manufacturing industry. - Strong knowledge of PCBA, Box Build, analog/digital circuits, embedded systems, and component engineering. - Proven track record of managing NPD projects and cross-functional teams. - Expertise in DFM/DFT, BOM analysis, QMS, and supplier quality processes. - Excellent project management, leadership, and customer communication skills.,