R&D Operations Manager

Dematic is seeking to hire a skilled R&D Operations Manager to work in the Product Development team. This role partners directly with the VP of Product Development, supporting the VP in all day-to-day activities, responsible for leading the Product Development (PD) budget, driving the organizational strategy, and ensuring the organization is on track to meet KPI’s. This is a key role in sustaining competitive advantage in the marketplace.We offer:

• Career Development

• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer

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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $104,250-$139,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What you will do in this role:

• Own $45M Product Development budget, ensuring alignment with finance and working with product management to ensure project alignment.
• Support the VP of Product Development in day-to-day organizational operations.
• Build and deliver executive level presentations with the ability to craft executive level stories.
• Tracks engineering organization's key performance indicators, ensures PD management teams have action plans to meet/exceed indicators.
• Participate in STRAP and AOP planning and help to communicate outcomes with the organization.
• Work special projects assigned from the VP PD SCS.
• Partner with CTO operations to synchronize yearly project targets, other organizational aims, and share monthly progress.
• Lead the PD management team through bottoms up resource planning aligning to AOP priorities.
• Maintain database for headcount planning and forecasting.
• Review monthly project spend data to ensure alignment to budget and forecast.
• Drives engineering operational excellence, focusing on organizational efficiencies opportunities. Such as Best Cost Country (BCC) strategies and engineering cycle time reduction.
• Drives continuous improvement activities across the organization and ensure measurable improvements are realized.
• Build data structures and reports to gain insight into internal org processes and efficiencies.
• Flexibility to work across multiple time zones to support the global nature of the team.
• Work with project management team to ensure alignment on resource and budget for projects.

What we are looking for:

• Positive relationship building, interpersonal skills, teamwork, and collaborator management.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, lead change, drive alignment, and deliver results.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience within Dematic is preferred.
• Understanding of Dematic product portfolio.
• Capable of driving organizational changes and rolling out new tools.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs and projects.
• Capability to conduct capacity planning and resource forecasting.
• Strong skills with PowerBI for data analysis and dashboard visualization.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required. Engineering degree or equivalent experience preferred.

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