Product Industrialization Project Manager

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

Role Description

Driving the operations project management plan and represent operations in the integral project team to complement business goals and supply chain, manufacturing strategy. As NPI Project Manager, you are in the lead for the execution and release of new product introductions in the supply chain & manufacturing (design transfer) with minimal disruption of actual production.

Responsibilities

- Industrialization Project Management of all Industrialization deliverables to meet Schedule, Cost, and Quality Requirements
- Managing multiple inter dependencies and business risks related to product introduction activities
- Ensuring optimum process capability, adherence to quality standards, and DfMAT (design for manufacturability, assembly and test) best practices are leveraged
- Leading, and cooperating with, an Operations project team including engineering, purchasing, quality, logistics, catalog management and manufacturing
- Representing Operations in the integral project team and acting as Single Point of Contact between Operations and the Development Project team
- Identifying and Driving manufacturing/engineering/value chain improvements during product development projects & transfer projects and drive product improvements with regard to variety, cost, quality and failure rate, implementing DfMAT principles
- Identifying the impact of new products on the current supply chain architecture and manufacturing concepts in order to develop the required architecture and solutions, initiate the deployment and define guidelines and execute implementation.
- Cooperate with stakeholders to define the supply chain and manufacturing concepts of new products with optimal landed costs
- Driving make/buy decisions and be involved in supplier selection process
- Driving operational excellence of project execution to achieve first time right predictable project execution

Requirements

- Bachelor/Master degree in a technical field (Mechanics/Electronics, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain) and preferably 3+ years’ experience in the relevant domain.
- Track record in project management.
- Conceptual thinking capabilities (Translate Global Architecture to requirements and Design and determine production impact) AND hands-on can-do mentality.
- Profound understanding of process FMEA’s, design reviews, process validation and knowledge of production process design and a solid knowhow of Logistics/Supply Chain.
- Strong technical writing skills, embrace good documentation practices and project- and stakeholder managements skills.
- Ability to lead a team of professionals through the product introduction cycle
- Fluency in Dutch and English language
- Experienced with Lean (problem solving) techniques

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Robin Hiariej.