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Product Development Process Leadership
- Own and facilitate the execution of the PDP for all assigned product development programs.
- Ensure successful completion of PDP deliverables, gate reviews, approvals, and launch milestones.
- Lead development and maintenance of integrated project timelines, critical paths, resource plans
- Monitor project progress against approved business objectives, budgets, schedules, and resources
- Drive timely decision-making and resolution of issues that impact project scope, timing, cost, or quality.
Cross-Functional Program Management
- Coordinate the efforts of Product Management, Engineering, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Marketing, Finance, and Quality throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Establish clear accountability for deliverables, milestones, and action items across functional teams.
- Facilitate regular project core team meetings and drive follow-up actions to closure.
- Communicate project status, risks, opportunities, and resource constraints to leadership.
Product Council & Governance
- Lead the scheduling, preparation, and administration of Product Council meetings and PDP gate reviews.
- Develop executive-ready presentations and supporting documentation for project approvals and major business decisions.
- Ensure product scope, business cases, technical requirements, and readiness criteria are appropriately defined for each PDP phase.
- Track and document project decisions, risks, assumptions, and mitigation plans.
Business Case & Strategic Evaluation
- Partner with Product Management and Finance to develop and maintain product business cases.
- Evaluate product opportunities based on strategic fit, customer demand, competitive position, margin potential, investment requirements, and organizational capacity.
- Support prioritization decisions within the product development portfolio.
- Monitor project financial performance, including development costs, tooling investments, capital expenditures, and launch assumptions.
Product Feasibility & Launch Readiness
- Collaborate with Engineering and Operations teams to assess design feasibility, technical readiness, manufacturability, supplier readiness, and launch risks.
- Coordinate launch readiness reviews to ensure all product, commercial, operational, and marketing deliverables are completed prior to production release.
- Support validation activities including prototype evaluation, design validation, production validation, certification requirements, and production ramp-up activities.
- Ensure successful transfer of products from development into production and commercialization.
Innovation & Competitive Intelligence
- Maintain awareness of emerging market trends, customer needs, competitive products, and technology developments within the marine industry and adjacent industries.
- Facilitate incorporation of competitive intelligence and innovation opportunities into development roadmaps
- Partner with Product Management to identify opportunities for differentiation and value creation.
Continuous Improvement
- Lead project post-mortem and lessons-learned reviews following product launches.
- Recommend improvements to PDP processes, project management practices, governance, reporting tools, and resource planning methodologies.
- Drive increased organization-wide project visibility and execution discipline.
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