Advanced Development Project Lead

Role: AD Project Lead

My client has an immediate requirement for a AD Project Lead based in the Drachten, Netherlands on a initial 5 month contract.

Location: Drachten
Duration: 5 months, 3 days (20 hours) per week.

Key Responsibilities/duties
* Translating the consumer, commercial, functional and design requirements into the project scope, project-planning, -time, -quality criteria;
* Creation of the required development logic with the development team and manage the cross functional aspects as a project leader;
* Translating the commercial, functional and design requirements into the project plan, -time, -quality criteria;
* Identifying gaps and implementing improvements to bring the development approach to a higher level (according to DfSS methodology);
* Ensuring your AD projects are resourced to win (aligned capacity with the right competence's), building a winning team out of the group of project members;
* Leading, coaching and stimulating the multi-disciplinary team of technical, consumer, marketing and design team members to enable strategic decisions on progress and content;
* Supervising the output of the technical development engineering team on Function and Product development from Value proposition to Function proven;
* Developing and optimising functionality, performance, quality, reliability, cost price and manufacturability of products;
* Delivering the right level of burden of proof for robustness and durability for components, modules and products;
* Actively mapping and managing all stakeholders within the organisation, working according a tailor-made communication plan to manage and generate therewith the right boundary conditions for his project;
* Reporting the project results and risks to all stakeholders in the right way, presenting at AD Review for project progress, pre-consolidations and at AD ComCell for weekly status updates;
* Quality: Safeguarding the requested functionality, performance, quality, reliability, cost price and manufacturability of functions/product;
* Budget: Ensuring project cost in line with RoFo and AOP;

Key skills required
* Bachelor/Master Degree in Technical study (Electronics
* Knowledge of the development/design of mechanical/electronics/software of products and preferably you are familiar with the manufacturability aspects.
* You have experience in managing (international) multi-disciplinary projects, preferably in Business to Consumer
* Strong Project management skills preferably passed on the PMI PMBOK, chosen as platform for our client Project Management Excellence community
* Ambitious Leader, a team player and you have good coordination, communication skills
* Development according to Design for Six sigma; Consumer focused development, steering on fact-based, knowledge driven decision making
* Strong preference for minimum of 3 years of experience in the field of (consumer) product development or predevelopment
* Familiar with state-of-the-art development techniques
* Show drive and be quality focused.
* The ability to balance development and practical realization;
* Ability to work in an international environment.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in word/PDF format.

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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