Senior Principal Technical Product Manager
About The Position
Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us!
Requirements
- BS/MS in an engineering or science discipline plus 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI) and/or Product Lifecycle Management processes
- Experience successfully managing cross-functional teams, interacting with a broad range of functions, skills, cultures, and personalities.
- Strong problem solving, critical thinking, and risk management skills.
- Strong communication, planning, and organizational skills.
- Highly self-motivated with a strong multi-disciplinary background is essential.
- Experience with Microsoft Office suite required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with CPO, optical transceivers or components desirable
- Previous experience as an engineer in R&D or Operations a strong advantage
- Experience with Oracle, Agile, and MS Project desirable.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product Line Management and R&D Management to generate development schedules that achieve key project milestones, NPI deliverables, business requirements, and customer satisfaction.
- Manage cross-functional team to procure material, assemble and test product, complete internal qualification testing, ship qualifiable samples to customers, and launch early-stage ramp in the factory.
- Escort CPO/NPO products through R&D NPI Phase Gate process, meet NPI deliverable, and deliver qualified products to the global Operations team.
- Primary team interface working with design team, internal support groups, operations team, and marketing; be a catalyst for engagement.
- Manage the project schedule, communicate status, highlight gaps to plan to stakeholders and management.
- Set, manage, and communicate expectations to the project team, management, and other stakeholders.
- Identify and manage project resource constraints, dependencies, and critical paths to accomplish the program goals; resolve issues.
- Manage material supply to ensure build configuration and schedule will support required NPI deliverables.
- Regular communication with global manufacturing and supply chain team members.
- Light travel for development activities: global team coordination, product transfer, and problem resolution.
Benefits
- competitive compensation program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
