About the role
The Operations Project Manager (OPM) represents Dyson’s Global Supply Chain (GSC), as primary member of the Project Leadership Team (PLT), co-ordinating and driving Procurement, Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling, Testing, Supply Chain, After-Sales Servicing, and Commercial Operations. The OPM will guide and oversee the implementation of manufacturing and procurement strategies, providing expertise input into the design and development specification and proposed solution.
Project
Act as the single point of contact for and represent GSC, as primary member of the PLT, on priority projects throughout the product pipeline.
Accountable for providing guidance and influencing the PLT on GSC considerations of product design and development.
Accountable for coordinating and cascading decisions made by the PLT into the GSC function activities.
Accountable to deliver all GSC assessments, presenting GSC inputs into the Dyson Product Development Milestone process, ensuring all deliverables are completed time appropriately from project inception to TS (Targets Set).
Conduct and drive, strategic technical reviews on Projects around all GSC functions, including Make vs Buy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Service Support strategies.
Responsible for identifying, coordinating, and executing SGC transfer of ownership between NPI Ops and Operations Sustaining.
Responsible to Initiate and lead project reviews to identify GSC risks, including mitigation plans, and manage appropriate escalation.
Responsible to develop cross functional project plans with tangible deliverables across GSC teams, ensuring the project schedule are aligned and realistic.
Responsible for developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders.
Responsible for identifying, managing, and communicating to stakeholders, resolving conflicts.
Programme
Provide coaching and guidance to all areas of the business on the relevance and interactions of the GSC functions. Opportunity to identify and deliver cross-category GSC initiatives to bring in efficiencies and optimisations, developing the direction and strategies of Operations.
Ownership and continuous development of the process across project and programme activities.
Support the identification of process specific project/people training needs.
Responsible for capturing lessons learnt and continuous improvement initiatives to develop OPM capability.
About you
A Degree level qualification in a STEM related discipline or other relevant subject, or equivalent experience.
Project or Programme management experience in a complex and fast paced environment, managing project budgets and governing expenditure.
Experience of applying change, risk, and schedule management processes.
Appreciation and understanding of the critical business functions and their contribution to NPI and NPD including Engineering, Commercial, manufacturing, sales & marketing, and Operations functions.
Strong and robust understanding of a typical product development project lifecycle.
Desirable: Proficient in translating business needs into holistic, precise non-functional and functional requirements to enable the product development team to optimise the product proposal within the realistic constraints of the GSC reality.
Desirable: Technically capable within the consumer product manufacturing industry to contribute to DFMEA and PFMEA reviews.
Effective communicator, capable of communicating complex programmes to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Comfortable engaging and influencing stakeholders of wide-ranging levels of an organisation.
Experience making quick decisions based on data and assessments of risk.
Confidence in problem solving, analysis and decision making with a solution orientated mindset.
Ability to take substantial amounts of information and summarise clear concise messages for target audiences.
Ability to drive project teams, empowering, and inspiring teams.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Skills Required
- Degree-level qualification in a STEM-related discipline or another relevant subject, or equivalent experience
- Project or program management experience in a complex, fast-paced environment
- Experience managing project budgets and governing expenditure
- Experience applying change, risk, and schedule management processes
- Understanding of critical business functions and their contributions to new product introduction and development
- Strong understanding of the product development project lifecycle
- Effective communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Experience making decisions based on data and risk assessments
- Problem-solving, analysis, and decision-making skills
- Ability to summarize complex information clearly for target audiences
- Ability to drive, empower, and inspire project teams
- Ability to translate business needs into functional and non-functional requirements
- Technical capability in consumer product manufacturing, including participation in DFMEA and PFMEA reviews
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
Dyson Insights
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
