Director, Research & Development

Job-ID: 15063; Location(s): Field 

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The Head of R&D is the functional and disciplinary lead of product adaptation, development and verification of products and materials. R&D is part of TechHub USA and on a global scale belonging to Corporate Technology and meets with local and global peers and stakeholders on a regular basis. This position has frequent strategic and alignment of development projects, processes, methods and tools, and frequent communication with internal and external stakeholders as well as suppliers and partners. 

JOB DESCRIPTION DETAILS

Management

• Provide leadership and direction to the Innovation, R&D team, ensuring the achievement of operational goals and financial targets.
• Operational leadership of R&D competence and people development - by ensuring state of the art technologies, skills and methods.
• Localization and implementation of development processes, standards and tools for development activities and workflows.
• Strategic guidance with internal external development partners and test facilities.
• Alignment with local peers in product management, production development and other x-functions like quality and procurement.
• Responsible to execute on decided roadmap projects and life-cycling of legacy products.
• Local responsibility for product development, verification and compliance for US product portfolio.
• Accountable of effective and efficient product development and related quality throughout product lifecycle.
• Planning of required resources and budgets in alignment with TechHub-lead and Corporate Technology.
• Functional expenses for development team and CAPEX budgeting.
• Influence of related development to sales revenue of $1B.
• Ensures compliance in Health, Environment & Safety/Quality in all areas of operations; ensures company policies and guidelines, as set forth in the Corporate Human Resources Policy manual are followed.

Budget Strategies

• Develops and administers budget for product portfolio, including reviewing previous year’s budget/expenses and forecasting short and long-range budgeting needs.
• Authorizes expense reports; approves and manages expenditures; ensures expenditures are in alignment with approved budget.

Product vision and strategy

• Be responsible for setting and owning strategic direction of the R&D portfolio.
• Hold responsibility over the research and development of new products or advancements on existing products.