NPI Excellence Manager | NTS Eindhoven/Hengelo

Do you want to drive operational excellence and transform how we bring innovative products to market? Are you driven, enthusiastic and does your heart beat faster with high-tech manufacturing and process improvement? Then get started as NPI Excellence Manager at NTS Group and let's make it possible together.

Job Description

As NPI Excellence Manager at NTS, you will lead and drive the improvement and embedding of the NTS New Product Introduction (NPI) process across our international sites. You'll be responsible for developing, implementing and standardizing the NPI process (OnePCP) from quotation through to the formalized handover of 'Ready for Volume' processes to Operations. Working closely with the CTO, you'll define the NPI excellence roadmap, monitor portfolio KPIs reflecting customer satisfaction and financial performance, and lead a community of NPI managers, project managers, sales and engineering leaders to achieve our strategic objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement and embed the standardized NPI process (OnePCP) across NTS sites, defining improvement roadmaps to achieve standard operating levels.
• Organize, monitor and act on portfolio dashboards of leading and lagging KPIs, facilitating regular CTO updates on site portfolio overviews.
• Lead the NPI community of managers and stakeholders to detail, implement and embed the NPI roadmap, standardized processes and local improvements.
• Periodically update the NTS NPI excellence roadmap with the CTO in line with Business & Commercial strategy, including annual budgets and investment planning.
• Represent and pitch NTS NPI capability at senior level in customer meetings, leading or contributing where NPI Excellence is a topic.

Job Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and drive transformation across an international organization.
• Extensive experience in high-tech equipment manufacturing environments, including complex projects, high volatility and long-term relationships.
• Senior project management, commercial, financial and organizational skills with the ability to operate and switch between strategic, tactical and operational levels.
• Demonstrated leadership capability at different organizational levels, with talent for managerial and people development.
• Fluent speaker of English (Dutch preferred), with strong communication skills and organizational sensitivity.

Your terms of employment

At NTS, we combine our passion for technology with innovative solutions to complex challenges. You get the freedom and confidence to fully use and develop your talents in a dynamic and energetic environment. We invest both in technology and in you as a future colleague!

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Personal growth and development opportunities.
• 27 vacation days and an additional 13 ADV days.
• Excellent pension plan with PME.
• Travel allowance.

About NTS

We deliver unique solutions to complex challenges and drive technological advancement for our customers. By combining development, manufacturing and assembly, we play an integral role in bringing the supply chain together. We combine the best skills and brightest ideas into a working system for the world's most advanced Semiconductor, Opto-Mechatronics and Analytical solutions. For this reason, we have grown into a Tier-1 supplier to OEM's and an international player operating from various (production)sites in Europe, Asia and the US.