Nathalye Blok Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Poole, Dorset, Gb

Bloomington, Mn, Us

• Lead and provide direction to the new product development team to ensure success of each project phases. • Lead communications globally with function partners to uncover business needs and deliver optimal solutions• Provide guidance on scalability and global implementation of product and process capabilities to product leaders across the regions to optimize the integrated operation • Owned the product roadmap and met discuss risk assessment findings and action plans at oversight senior management meetings• Manage the backlog of requests (APD System) to define and evaluate product and process requests that will be implemented by product development teams

Manage cross-functional resources from engineering, sales, marketing, design and plant personnel to coordinate new product release, leveraging project management skills to help keep projects on track, mitigate risks and ensure key decision points are made in a timely matter.•Created a structured phase gate product release process to meet compliance requirements.•Designed training materials for the product release process and conducted training to our entities in Asia and Europe.•Analyze market requirements, in-house technical strengths, and competitive threats, for the development of a strategic product road map of product features for current and future product releases.•Manage product development with engineering to meet product release schedules, meet VOC requirements and ensure financial goals are met.

Provided support IVS and Fuel Cell customers. Responsibilities included assisting prospective customers with product recommendations. Work closely with engineering team to solve customer inquiries.•Created and implemented pricing database for IVS product offerings. Improved response rate to the customer by 20%.•Analyzed business performance for Fuel Cell accounts, produced business case based on cost, pricing and competitive analysis report to upper management to gain approval for new product release and cancel product with low margins.•Researched potential new markets in order to develop effective tactical sales plans to drive customer revenue growth.