NPI Program Manager - Engineering & Operations

25 Days Old

Senior Operations & NPI Project Lead Full-time | Permanent | On-site – Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK
A global leader in high-precision scientific instrumentation is hiring for a newly created position based at their fast-growing UK development and manufacturing site. This is a strategic role focused on leading New Product Introduction (NPI) activities across engineering, operations, and supply chain. You'll play a key part in bridging R&D and Ops to ensure complex products move from concept to commercial production smoothly and at scale.
Why this role? The business is scaling rapidly, with multiple overlapping development projects and increasing pressure on delivery timelines. They’ve created this role to bring structure, coordination, and clear accountability across teams. There’s also scope to build a team longer-term.
What you’ll do: • Lead cross-functional alignment across R&D, operations, procurement, planning, and manufacturing • Own product realisation strategy—costing, sourcing, BOMs, engineering changes • Improve and refine NPI frameworks and stage-gate processes • Develop project timelines and manage milestones and risk • Facilitate scenario planning and decision-making with senior stakeholders
Location:
Wilmslow
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Management & Consultancy

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