Senior Manager of NPI Process & Technology Enablement- Boise, ID

The J.R. Simplot Company is a diverse privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise Idaho. We are a true farm-to-table company with an integrated portfolio including food processing and food brands phosphate mining fertilizer manufacturing farming ranching and cattle production and other enterprises related to agriculture.

Summary

This position exists to enable efficient execution of New Product Development initiatives globally ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and adequate allocation of developmental resources.

This position is accountable for developing and maintaining a vibrant cross-functional environment in which new product development line extensions product cost-downs and other product-related innovation and enhancement activities are successfully undertaken. This person will ensure that these efforts improve the delivery of new product initiatives that link to business strategy. This role is accountable to the marketing group and leadership team for facilitating and overseeing the process and technology platforms for product portfolio innovation global Stage and Gate and product lifecycle management efforts.

This role is also the product owner for the Global Food Product Lifecycle Management technology platforms (including Oracle PLM Accolade and in future SAP PLM).

Key Responsibilities

• Cultivate strong relationships with Marketing Product Innovation PMO Operations and Supply Chain to establish and maintain a clear and transparent commercialization process. Lead and manage the process to evaluate prioritize and effectively execute allgroup product portfolio development and cost-down opportunities which utilize shared R&D resources.
• Work with project and functional managers to make sure that project issues disagreements and other challenges (e.g. staffing resource allocation funding project prioritization) are resolved quickly and reasonably and in a manner consistent with respective areas of accountability.
• Develop and maintain the information required for decision-making on the product portfolio lifecycle (NPI and tail management) and NPI project pipeline status. Keep the marketing group leadership team and key business unit / functional stakeholdersinformed of progress and issues requiring senior management intervention related to the delivery of the product portfolio activities.
• Guide direct and accelerateproduct innovation efforts from idea through commercialization. Managethe global stage-gatedevelopment lifecycle to ensure that projects have functional approval from all functional leaders with responsibility for project deliverables prior to initiating each project stage within the development lifecycle.
• Ensure that individual development projects have effective and appropriate cross-functional representation and that they evaluate projects with sufficient rigor to reach clear objective decisions consistent with business strategic objectives.
• Act as Product Owner for all PLM technology. Provide guidance on business requirements for application development including the global implementation of a common PLM technology platform (SAP PLM Accolade)

Typical Education

Experience Details

Required Certifications

Degree qualified in Commerce Marketing Business or related disciplines

Job Requisition ID : 24164

Travel Required : Less than 10%

Location(s) : Simplot Headquarters - Boise

Country : United States

Required Experience :

Senior Manager

Key Skills

Loan Processing,Continuous Improvement,Lean,Management Experience,Math,Process Improvement,Fair Housing Regulations,Project Management,Process Management,Underwriting,Leadership Experience,Supervising Experience

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1