Executive Job Description | Are you searching for a high impact, high visibility leadership position that demands tremendous energy and creativity?
Does your career path include product management or marketing responsibilities, project management, product development, product design AND product definition experience? Do you have experience materially contributing to defining a product road map? Do you have a proactive approach to product development? Have you gone directly to customers to get their input for new product ideas? Have you battled with Marketing over a new product definition(s) based on your own firsthand experience with customers?
Do you have a track record of effectively managing multiple projects and initiatives concurrently? Do you believe that Engineering should be as closely connected to customers as Sales? Do your peers see you as interested in and a positive influence on all areas of the company and customers?
Do you have what it takes to be part of the management team? Contributing to:
• The strategic direction of the company,
• The ongoing development of the company’s product road map,
• Participating in decisions regarding overall profitability?
Are you a conceptual thinker that finds it easy to make decisions? Do you have a high need for achievement? Are you an agent of change, without being a disruptive force?
Do you have small company or small business unit experience? Are you looking for a financially stable company with a reputation for quality and commitment to significant growth in the near term? Do you have aspirations of taking your career to the President or General Manager level?
If you can be a manager of the company first and an Engineering leader second, then you might find a stimulating and rewarding opportunity here. The Director of Innovation is a customer facing position that leads a small team of engineers and reports to the President. The Director of Innovation is a part of the executive team and is expected to materially contribute to the management of the company.
This is a demanding position with many expectations. Your arms might get tired changing all of your hats. Our client offers a challenging, stimulating, respectful and rewarding environment.
If you love the spirit of entrepreneurship and eschew conventional thinking, you might have a home here.
Interested? Please continue reading.
Scope and Responsibilities
• The Director of Innovation is an officer of the company and a member of its executive committee. The primary responsibility of this position is to ensure the growth and profitability of the company as a whole.
• The Director of Innovation is responsible for developing and managing the engineering department, and will be measured based on performance against both short term and long term goals. Idea generation and creativity in this position are a must, as are the ability to work with deadlines, manage and complete projects through commercialization.
Specific Duties
• Setting strategic objectives relating to sales of the company’s products into target markets and the roll-out of appropriate new products. Formulating the associated action plan, including financial targets, project time schedule and resource allocation.
• Management of the R&D process extending from concept development through to product launch. The product launch is complete only when the products are fully manufacturable and free of design flaws, vendors for components have been selected and qualified, costs are calculated and optimized, and product technical literature is complete.
• Responsible for sustaining engineering. Ensuring that existing products incorporate changes enhancing quality, manufacturability, product features, and new market standards.
• The primary emphasis for the Director of Innovation’s day-to-day work lies on project management, both for R&D projects and for major applications projects. This entails not just the project planning, but also daily interventions with all parties involved in the execution to ensure that projects remains on track.
Qualifications
• B.S. in Microelectronics or Electronics Engineering. Advanced degrees such as an M.B.A. or a Masters degree in engineering are a plus. Formal classes in marketing related activities is desirable, but not required.
• Minimum of eight years experience in design engineering / research & development.
• Management experience required: personnel responsibility, setting and working towards financial targets. The position will lead a team of 5 direct reports.
• Strong project management experience. Familiarity with project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project) required.
• Familiarity with analytical instruments used in process control, clinical diagnostics, chemical research, biotechnology and/or environmental testing would be an extra bonus.
• Creative and self-motivated. Able to influence and lead people.
Management style & personality
We seek a highly motivated individual with strong desire to lead a small, knowledgable and experienced engineering group. The essence of the position is to lead by example, rather than by intense management and iterative coaching. NO micro-managers or desk-jockeys.
It is important that this individual have strong organizational skills and a systematic approach to engineering/project management.
Compensation
A competitive compensation package is offered for this position. The compensation package consist of a competitive base salary; depending upon experience, executive bonus, which is based on growth of profitability can be up to 100% of base salary – average bonus is in the 20-40% range, 401(k), profit sharing, medical, dental and other benefits. Our client offers exceptional advancement potential for a talented and ambitious person.
Company
Companies performing automotive manufacturing, fuel cell development, environmental testing, leak detection, spray drying, tank blanketing, extra-planetary exploration, atmospheric testing, fiber optics and process gas metering benefit from our client’s meters, controllers and measurement products.
If you love the spirit of entrepreneurship and eschew conventional thinking, you might have a home here. The timeframe to fill this search is as-soon-as-possible.
To apply, send resume to:
dirinn@largent-assoc.com |
