James Beardmore Email & Phone Number

Rotherham, South Yorkshire, GB

• Re-joining the ASD Design team in a senior role, focussed on strategic NPI process, planning, and large product developments in the architectural space.
• Circular Design and Product Sustainability Department Lead.
• Strategic Marketing Group Lead for Design.

GB

• A diverse design engineering role, leading the product development of small domestic appliances, focussed on Garment Care, Worktop Cooking and Household Cleaning sub-categories. As part of the Morphy Richards NPI.
• New product innovation developments, product updates and manufacturing support, ensuring delivery within the agreed timeline, budget, and scope.
• Consumer insight, market research, existing product, and competitor benchmarking.
• Sketching and ideation, focussing heavily on user interaction and creating solutions which meet the brief, user needs and product requirements.
• Ownership of the product engineering, testing and evaluating samples, development of features and user interaction, creating and testing proof of principal prototypes.
• Technical documentation required throughout the stage gate process, including: DFMEA, Product requirements, specifications and presenting projects to key stakeholders in the business.

Rotherham, South Yorkshire, GB

• Project lead for new product developments.
• Ownership from design concept, through development, engineering, and tooling.
• Product updates, drawings updates, engineering changes and supporting sales.
• Main contact for any production issues and product support post-development.Smaller Developments and Retrofitting projects.
• Shorter timeframe projects for catalogue ranges, or bespoke product for specificlocations and job requirements.
• Often sheet metalwork fabrications, spinning’s and pressings.Product Visualisation & Marketing.

Aiding in user-centred design research and commercial, healthcare product design projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This experience including a three month academic placement, six months summer work, and returning for freelance projects throughout university.