Director, R&d Innovation - Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland - Uponor

Uponor

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

The Director R&D Innovation (possible locations: Frankfurt or Hassfurt/Germany, USA or in Nastola/Finland or in Getafe/Spain) oversees and steers the innovation pipeline of all R&D teams.

He/she supports all teams with state of the art processes and tools to identify customer needs and problem solving technics to build and maintain industry leading product innovations.

He/she needs to ensure that there is a strong and continuous alignment/transparency on the innovation roadmap topics together with major stakeholders eg Marketing, Category and Sales.

To monitor and ensure progress of the ongoing innovation ideas he/she organizes internal R&D reviews in the pre development phase for the cross functional aligned innovation topics.

The agile Pre development phase needs to be implemented based on MVP approach to ensure a fail fast - fail cheap culture.

Building out innovation capabilities and transferring them into the corporate culture to impact the broader organization. The position offers also the opportunity to lead a limited amount of innovation projects.

What will you do:

Leads and manages efficiently the innovation pipeline of Uponor together with all R&D teams.
Implements state of the art processes to identify customer needs and problem solving technics to build a strong costumer centric innovation pipeline on product and industry leading manufacturing processes.
Develops and maintains a 5 year world leading customer centric roadmap for Uponor in alignment with Marketing, Category and Sales for all categories.
Ensures that the organization has a good transparency of current state of the innovation pipeline based on specific KPIs
Develops, manages and leads the pre development stage gate process.
Establishes and maintains relationships with the external scientific community and keeps updated on technological development.
Leads and guides the development teams and their stakeholders to continuously improve the innovation process and supports with training and development initiatives for employees.
Ensures that the innovation pipeline delivers a strong patent portfolio for the organization.

What will you need:

Bachelor of Science or Engineering from an accredited institution is required. Masters or MBA is preferred.
Eight or more years of experience in Product Development
Ability to lead and manage several development teams
Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.
Experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
Five or more years of experience with using Microsoft Project or equivalent project management software tools is preferred.
Ability to be a persuasive leader who can serve as an effective member of the leadership team and communicate innovation and development topics to a broad range of employees
Good sense for business opportunities

What will you get:

Onboarding: With an onboarding program tailored to you, we welcome you to Uponor
Worklife balance: We support your worklife balance with flexible working hours, different working time models and mobile working
Personnel development: We take care of your personal development, work out a customized development plan and promote you further with individual trainings