Technical Project Manager

at  SharkNinja

London, England, United Kingdom -

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Immediate22 Dec, 2024Not Specified25 Sep, 2024N/AGood communication skillsNoNo
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Description:

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.

Responsibilities:

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Technical Project Manager to join our team at our Battersea Office. The TPM will join a global Engineering team, partnering with offices in London & China. The TPM will be responsible for owning and delivering all Engineering activities related to the new product development on multiple projects within a franchise, on budget and to aggressive timelines. The TPM is the ‘glue’ within the team, aligning project direction and decision points with key members from all business disciplines but mainly between the Engineering teams in all sites. We work with a hybrid model, 3 days a week in our iconic Battersea Power Station London office.
The successful candidate will be able to understand, explain and help solving complex Engineering technical challenges, and be able to present information to non-technical cross-functional teams. The candidate will be also able to support the project team on some technical activities. They will need to show good listening and influencing skills, with the confidence to achieve collaborative working relationships.
The technical project manager is responsible for the ‘WHAT’ that is being delivered, design manager/engineers are responsible for ‘HOW’ this is delivered. Jointly they are responsible for:

Delivering 5* products to market (best in class product)

  • Ensure global teams are aligned on project direction (right product)
  • Ensure project schedules are up to date, progressing to plan and meet retailer requirements (right time)
  • Ensure global teams are up to date on project status and key issues/risks (stakeholders bought in)

HERE ARE SOME OF THE EXCITING THINGS YOU’LL GET TO DO:

  • Work as a part of the Engineering/TPM team.
  • Jointly lead product development from concept through to mass production in partnership with the engineering team – responsible for driving the ‘WHY and WHEN’ of the project, whilst your design/engineering counterpart is responsible for driving the ‘HOW’
  • Have a technical understanding of the day to day challenges and support technical activities if needed.
  • Participate on design optimization activities, keeping track of design changes and costs
  • Monitor Engineering deliverables progress continuously and make detailed reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
  • Coordinate the development and sign off on all tests which ensure the product meets our KPIs and develop the test setups which allow us to shoot our infomercials to demonstrate this to our consumers.
  • Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
  • Distill and present key project risks/ status/ decision points to cross functional Boston teams (Marketing/ Quality/ PMO leads) – redirecting Engineering team based on outcome of these conversations
  • Closely manage project spend, flagging risks and overspends regularly, and reporting out to finance once a month.

YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET

  • Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
  • Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
  • Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
  • Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
  • Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)

Information Technology/IT

Engineering Design / R&D

Project Management

Graduate

Proficient

1

London, United Kingdom