Head - New Product Development

General background: We seek to strengthen the leadership team of the Metallurgy Division at Business Level with a new position of Head New Product Development. This position will report to the Chief Operating Officer.

The purpose of this role will be to focus on new product development, Metallurgical controls over all operations, and solving metallurgical issues/complaints. Development of new metallurgical processes testing suppliers, installation of new testing facilities for both the plants. This role will work closely with Quality department and Manufacturing department.

Role & responsibilities

• Responsible for completing the feasibility study of RFQ received from sales team and designing the process flow to meet the technical requirements of the customer.
• Leads the CFT which is responsible for designing and implementing the process flow to produce the samples of confirmed new orders received from sales team.
• Ensure all documents are prepared as per the requirements of Quality Management System and records of sample development maintained.
• Coordinate with customer on any deviation or clarification on technical requirement during the sample development and submission process.
• Will be responsible to deliver the samples First Time Right within the agrees timeline.
• Ensures the agreed metrices of Quality/ Productivity are attained and stabilised before handing over the program to production function.
• Keeping the management periodically updated on the progress of each program
• Train and develop the team members.

Leadership: The candidate will need to show leadership ability to drive transformational cultural change to enable the business to deliver operational efficiency.

Travel & Mobility: The position is based in Nashik and frequent travel is anticipated.

Preferred candidate profile

The ideal candidate is an engineering graduate with a post-graduate qualification in Metallurgy and 15 -20 years experience including at least 10 years at a managerial level with responsibility for managing NPD function at plant level. The candidate should be from engineering or manufacturing industries, or steel plant having managed procurement of scrap and alloys.