SharkNinja is looking for a Product Developer to own the entire New Product Development (NPD) process from concept to shelf for their Shark and Ninja brands, ensuring the delivery of best-in-class product development thinking, governance, and process to execute the program portfolio flawlessly and bring disruptive innovation to market with speed and efficiency.
Requirements
- 2+ years direct Product Development experience
- Experience desired in some combination of new product development or program management (Consumer Goods Industry strongly preferred)
- Intermediate/working level skills with MS Project (or similar), Excel, PPT and Visio
- Presentation skills – Must be proficient with PowerPoint and be comfortable developing and presenting to large groups including executive management either in person or over MS Teams.
Responsibilities
- Drives and actively facilitate the interaction of cross-functional stakeholders to bring products to market, including managing risks, and schedule
- Collaborate with teams to ensure that the go to market strategy will provide high rate of sales
- Accountable to deliver all elements of the program, from product ideation to end-of-life
- Make use of KPI’s and data to help drive decision making across the cross-functional teams
- Identify program risks, develop mitigation/contingency and track progress
- Spot resource and knowledge gaps and take steps necessary to highlight/remedy
- Channel global information to local teams, act as conduit to support the business
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in technical/engineering or business management field highly desired
- Assertive, confident, capable
- Able to cultivate and lead a high performing team that delivers results
- Excellent written, verbal and communication skills. Experienced addressing C-Suite, Peer Functional Groups, Suppliers, and Customer audiences
- Cross-functional leadership skills
- Possess a strong bias to action and accountability
- High energy, with a positive attitude
- Detail oriented
