New Product Introduction Lead
- Project planning; scheduling the NPI process; creating the project Gantt chart, highlighting key milestones, specifically on engineering tasks.
- Analysing supplier quotations and schedules, to ensure the project will be commercially viable.
- Main point of contact between overseas suppliers, engineers and UK stakeholders, ensuring the key project milestones were achieved.
- Reporting project status at progress meetings to sales, marketing, design and quality departments in a timely manner.
- Assisted in securing project funding from parent company Glen Dimplex by creating financial payback documentation for engineering/tooling costs.
- Preparing relevant sections of Gate presentations in PowerPoint, highlighting positive and negative points to the business, before moving the project in to the next stage of the schedule.