Senior Design Manager

Senior Design Manager

About us

At Dyson we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic, but most of all we’re hugely passionate about what we do. Dyson offers a unique opportunity for talented individuals who wish to invent, design and develop leading products for the global market. By working in our world class multi-disciplinary project teams, these individuals will be key collaborators and influencers throughout the business, pivotal in inspiring, energising and managing the global development and execution of projects to deliver compelling new products.

Dyson is a design and innovation led company, whilst equally valuing project schedule adherence and budget adherence.

About the role

• Lead product development as the focal point for significant new-to-Dyson product offerings.
• Own the user specification, key claims and technical requirements to deliver a compelling product.
• Provide clear leadership, and decision making to resolve conflicting product and project requirements.
• Deliver project on time to the success criteria to maximise return on investment.
• Manage both product cost and project spend to ensure the business objectives are achieved.
• Influence the “go to market” strategy to optimise sales volume and market mix to promote profit.
• Ensure product reliability and quality targets are achieved.
• Escalate relevant project risks and issues at the right time to the right forum to remove blockers.
• Drive a culture of identification and resolution of project risks and issues.
• Engage in the operations and procurement strategy and execution to deliver a robust manufacturing and supply solution.
• Proactively champion change & continuous improvement to adopt better ways of working.

About you

• Degree in Engineering or Science or demonstrate equivalent experience. Knowledge of Systems Engineering is preferred.
• 8+ years’ experience of managing technical or manufactured products end to end.
• Knowledge and understanding of multiple tooling and manufacturing techniques.
• Proven experience of delivering robust design solutions on time, to specification and within cost and budget constraints.
• Project management capability including schedule and risk management is required.
• Experience delivering within a product development framework required.
• Experience in both mechanical and electrical engineering (hardware & software).
• Exposure to production operations, procurement, supply chain, marketing and sales required.
• Experience of managing people, mentoring, and coaching.

Skills

• Authentic leadership: able to provide clear, collaborative direction towards a common goal.
• Communication: able to listen and convey complex issues concisely and accurately to all levels in the business.
• Interpersonal skills: able to build and leverage productive working relationships to deliver through others. Day to day direction, coaching and decision making is essential, ensuring that all mechanical, electrical, UI/UX, assemblies and systems integrate to deliver the overall product.
• Data-driven decision-making: able to use sound analytical assessment to make technical recommendations.
• Delivery: focused on project schedule adherence to success criteria.
• Commercial awareness: able to balance product offering with project delivery to optimise business case and maximise return on investment.

Behaviours

• Energy, enthusiasm, curiosity, common sense, and resilience.
• Self-starter: ability to work independently
• Confident: comfortable interacting with colleagues at all levels.
• Assertive: readiness to articulate and communicate appropriately towards issue resolution as required.
• Credible: ability to demonstrate understanding of engineering processes, in order to work with design teams throughout the product development life cycle.
• Focused: ability to multi-task and direct self effectively in a fast-paced and often high-pressure environment.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

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