About the Role
The New Product Operations (NPO) Project Manager is responsible for leading cross-functional Global Supply Chain (GSC) projects to industrialise new products and support delivery to market.
This role focuses on end-to-end project execution within a defined scope, coordinating across functions such as Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement, Supply Planning, and external partners to ensure delivery against quality, cost, and timeline commitments.
The role requires effective cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management, with a strong focus on execution, risk management, and operational delivery. While contributing to continuous improvement initiatives, the scope is primarily centred on successful delivery of assigned programmes, with opportunities to grow into broader strategic and transformation responsibilities over time.
Operational Accountabilities
1. Project Delivery & Execution
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of new product industrialisation projects within a defined scope
- Develop and manage integrated project plans, ensuring alignment across GSC functions
- Drive production readiness and ramp-up activities, ensuring delivery milestones are met
- Track and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating appropriately when required
- Provide regular project updates, highlighting key risks, progress, and mitigation actions
2. Cross-functional Coordination
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure aligned execution
- Translate project requirements into clear deliverables and timelines for contributing teams
- Support decision-making processes by providing accurate, timely project insights
3. Resource, Budget & Partner Support
- Support resource planning and prioritisation for assigned projects
- Monitor CAPEX spend and project budgets, escalating variances where necessary
- Work closely with external partners and suppliers to ensure delivery against agreed plans
4. Continuous Improvement Contribution
- Identify process improvement opportunities within projects and support implementation
- Contribute to the adoption of standard ways of working and best practices within OPM
- Support broader transformation initiatives where required
About You
- Proven experience in project management within manufacturing, operations, or new product introduction environments
- Strong ability to collaborate across teams and manage stakeholders effectively
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities and delivering within structured timelines
- Able to identify risks, solve problems, and drive execution-focused decisions
- Good understanding of project governance, risk management, and operational processes
- Experience supporting budget tracking and resource coordination
- Proactive, organised, and able to work independently while keeping stakeholders aligned
Qualifications
- Degree in a STEM or relevant discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Project management or operational certifications (e.g. Six Sigma, PMP) are advantageous
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
- Proven project management experience in manufacturing, operations, or new product introduction environments
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities within structured timelines
- Risk identification, problem-solving, and execution-focused decision-making skills
- Understanding of project governance, risk management, and operational processes
- Experience supporting budget tracking and resource coordination
- STEM or relevant degree, or equivalent experience
- Project management or operational certification such as Six Sigma or PMP
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
