About Dyson
At Dyson we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes.
We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic, but most of all we’re hugely passionate about what we do.
Dyson offers a unique opportunity for talented individuals who wish to invent, design and develop leading products for the global market. By working in our world class multi-disciplinary project teams, these individuals will be key collaborators and influencers throughout the business, pivotal in inspiring, energising and managing the global development and execution of projects to deliver compelling new products.
Dyson is a design and innovation led company, whilst equally valuing project schedule adherence and budget adherence.
About the role
Reporting to the VP - NPD Beauty and located in Singapore, you will pioneer the delivery of NPD Beauty’s 5 year Product Portfolio Plan through external partnerships, in alignment with the needs of the Beauty Business Unit.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Product Portfolio – Continuous Alignment
- Maintaining awareness of the 5 year Product Portfolio Plan – which documents all products NPD Beauty intends to deliver across all model families.
- Retaining visibility of the 5 year Product Portfolio Plan as it reacts to Business Unit-led product opportunities, competitor threats, schedule change requests, and new products or technologies identified by the Discovery team.
- Collaborating with NPD Beauty Category’s ‘Portfolio Architectures Lead’, to understand the detailed product architecture plans (eg. Motor/Heater/Driver) across all model families, with a 5 year horizon.
External Partners – Identification and Process Development
- Working with Procurement, Commercial Operations and the broader Supply Chain team, to develop suitable outsource partners to aid the delivery of NPD Beauty’s 5 year plan.
- Ensuring the Beauty category have relationships in place to react quickly to outsource opportunities across full products, sub-assemblies, technologies, and significant bought-out components.
- Defining a clear process for how Beauty NPD interact with outsource partners, including RFI, RFP.
- Developing a standard model for the OPEX, CAPEX and Headcount required to deliver a Beauty product or assembly with an outsource partner.
- Enabling the VP and Head of Product Programmes to utilise this model to build the 5 year Product Portfolio Plan – understanding what is feasible to deliver withing annual budget constraints.
- Refine how NPD Beauty best collaborate with an outsource partner, whilst still retaining Dyson’s look & feel and meeting time, spec, cost and quality.
Beauty Partners – Central Ownership
- Maintaining a single, central list of all activities being progressed with external partners, within the Beauty category.
- Ensuring all Dyson engagements with external partners related to Haircare products, flow through the NPD Beauty Category team – to deliver the agreed projects and priorities on the 5 year Product Portfolio Plan.
Product Portfolio – Delivery Model Selection
- Triaging the 5 year Product Portfolio Plan and new product Vision Specs (within NPD, the Business Unit or Discovery), to recommend where external partnerships should be leveraged.
External Partners – New Opportunities
- Leveraging regular communication with outsource partners to identify new opportunities within the Beauty category, previously unidentified internally. Eg. Cost down, size reduction, performance improvement.
- Maintaining alignment with the upstream Discovery team to ensure both Delivery and Discovery are taking full advantage of outsource opportunities.
About you
- Degree in Engineering or Science or demonstrate equivalent experience. Knowledge of Systems Engineering.
- 5+ years’ experience of managing technical or manufactured products end to end.
- Knowledge and understanding of multiple tooling and manufacturing techniques.
- Proven experience delivering design solutions on time, to specification and within cost and budget constraints.
- Experience delivering within a product development framework preferred.
- Experience in both mechanical and electrical engineering (hardware & software).
- Exposure to production operations, procurement, supply chain, marketing and sales preferred.
- Authentic leadership: able to provide clear, collaborative direction towards a common goal.
- Communication: able to listen and convey complex issues concisely and accurately to all levels in the business.
- Interpersonal skills: able to build and leverage productive working relationships to deliver through others.
- Data-driven decision-making: able to use sound analytical assessment to make technical recommendations.
- Delivery: focused on project schedule adherence to success criteria.
- Commercial awareness: able to balance product offering with project delivery to optimise business case.
Benefits
Dyson monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and bonuses. Beyond that, you’ll enjoy a transport allowance and comprehensive medical care and insurance. But financial benefits are just the start of a Dyson career. Professional growth, leadership development and new opportunities abound, driven by regular reviews and dynamic workshops. And with a vibrant culture, the latest devices and a relaxed dress code reflecting our engineering spirit, it’s an exciting team environment geared to fuelling and realising ambition.
