New Product Development Manager

As a highly experienced and strategic NPD Manager in the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry, your role is crucial in leading and overseeing the end-to-end development of electronic products, including PCBA and Box Build assemblies. Your responsibilities include driving product innovation, ensuring design feasibility, managing cross-functional collaboration, and optimizing processes for cost, quality, and efficiency. Key Responsibilities: - Drive the complete NPD lifecycle from concept to production, develop project plans, allocate resources, and ensure timely execution of product milestones. - Oversee BOM scrubbing, analysis, and validation for accuracy, manufacturability, and cost-effectiveness, ensuring alignment with sourcing and engineering standards. - Lead design feasibility reviews, risk assessments, and ensure compliance with Design for Manufacturability and Testability practices. - Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure smooth production ramp-up, define and optimize processes, control plans, and tooling requirements. - Ensure all NPD activities meet internal quality standards and external regulatory requirements, lead product validation, supplier audits, and process checks. - Lead component selection, manage lifecycle, and obsolescence planning, identify alternate components, and drive Engineering Change Management (ECM). - Manage prototype builds and validation cycles for PCBA and Box Builds, ensuring performance, cost, and timeline objectives are met. - Coordinate with design, procurement, quality, production, and customer teams to ensure alignment on product requirements and deliverables. - Act as a technical interface with key customers, understand their requirements, provide regular updates, and support product transitions into production. - Lead, mentor, and develop 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.,