Senior Manager, Advanced Product Development

Cooper Standard

Northville, MI

Full Time

Senior

2 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Senior Advanced Product Development Manager is responsible for assimilating and leveraging key market and trend data to devise global future fluid handling strategies, roadmaps, and products with a goal to grow content per vehicle, revenue, and margin. This position also leads the regional delivery of select innovations from initial concept to 'saleable' products utilizing the corporate 'i3' innovation process and helps coordinate activities for global advanced development efforts.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate directly with the sales team and automotive customers to collect voice-of-the-customer (VoC) information which can be leveraged in the development of new fluid-handling products
Collect and analyze global automotive market trend data and work with colleagues to forecast future needs for fluid handling products and markets
Generate coherent global and regional product development strategies and road maps to outline a future pipeline of innovative new products that grow content per vehicle, revenue, and margins
Develop, manage and grow a team of advanced product development engineers and professionals
Implement the advanced product strategy, and translate into actionable items for the team
Manage delivery of select advanced development projects leveraging the i3 development process
Lead coordination of efforts with other advanced development teams to align deliverables and actions
Develop departmental plans, including business, production and organizational priorities
Manage expenses and capital budgets to ensure targets are met
Evaluate and resolve technical feasibility, design optimization, and production issues
Provide technical guidance regarding newly developed products to employees and/or customers
Identify and resolve complex technical, operational, and organizational problems
Identify opportunities for improvement in department operations; champion continuous improvement
Provide leadership to managers and professional staff
Influence others internally and externally, including senior leaders
Meet with new and existing suppliers with products or materials which can be utilized in our products
May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description

Requirements

Experience in developing and implementing product development strategies
Ability to analyze market trend data and forecast future needs
Leadership experience managing engineering teams
Technical expertise in fluid handling products or related fields
Experience managing projects using structured development processes such as i3
Strong collaboration and communication skills with internal teams and external partners
Ability to evaluate technical feasibility and resolve design and production issues

Working at Cooper Standard

Cooper Standard is proud of its diverse workforce and committed to providing equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, age, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are dedicated to creating an environment at work that not only values diversity but also encourages inclusion and a sense of belonging. We firmly believe that a diverse workplace fosters an environment where our employees can flourish and provide superior service to our customers.

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