Senior Director Product Lines

Datwyler Group; Ontario; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global company as a Senior Director Product Lines, where you will create a self-sufficient team to develop innovative solutions. Your role will involve collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance profitability and customer satisfaction while driving new business initiatives.

Benefits

Growth and Development opportunities

Competitive wages

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Medical, Dental, Vision, and other auxiliary insurances

Company paid Life insurance

Voluntary Life insurance

Qualifications

• Minimum 10-15 years in engineering roles, preferably with significant experience in O-Rings.
• Experience in driving change management.

Responsibilities

• Forming a cross-regional team to partner customers from solution design through to mass production.
• Develop a basis for cost calculations for new items and optimize competitiveness.
• Lead program managers to ensure optimal outcomes from co-engineered projects.

Skills

Customer Focus

Strategic Mindset

Financial acumen

Analytical mindset

Persistence

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In billions of syringes and in every second car worldwide, Datwyler components make an important contribution to the safety of patients and drivers. The high-tech company focuses on high-quality, system-critical elastomer components and holds leading positions in attractive global markets such as healthcare, mobility, connectivity, general industry, and food & beverage. With over 25 production sites on four continents, sales in more than 100 countries, and over 8,000 employees, the company, headquartered in Switzerland, generates annual sales of more than CHF 1,000 million.

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Senior Director Product Lines

As Senior Director Product Lines, the key purpose is to support the commercial organization to both win new business and maintain and improve existing business profitability. This is a new position and you will be tasked with creating a new self-sufficient team capable of developing innovative and profitable solutions for our customers from initial concept through to serial production.

Key Responsibilities

• Forming a cross-regional team with capabilities to partner customers from solution design through to mass production, and developing this team into a high-performing unit
• Lead the team in providing rapid assessments of new product feasibility according to our technical capabilities and strategic fit
• Partner with and advise customers on specific topics related to their sealing solution needs
• Partner with colleagues in other Datwyler Engineering Centers to ensure synergies and sharing of best practices
• Develop a basis and methodology for cost calculations for new items and continually work to optimize this to ensure our competitiveness in the market whilst enhancing our profitability
• Ensure the department offers exceptional customer service and meets all committed and expected timelines of our customers
• Support and lead the team in specific projects
• Assess the existing portfolios and implement new ideas to improve current processes to enhance profitability within this product segment
• Lead program managers to ensure optimal outcomes from co-engineered projects
• Work together with colleagues in Advanced Materials and innovation to optimize solutions for customers
• Assess opportunities for automation within our O-Ring production facilities to improve competitiveness

Collaborative Areas of Interaction & Success in Role

This position will collaborate and influence those in :

• Customers
• Site Directors and operations teams
• Marketing and product management
• Business Unit Leaders

Success in this role will deliver the following :

• Rapid solution design and turnaround of customer enquiries
• Conversion rate of new projects
• Optimization of existing business and margin improvements

Your Profile

• Minimum 10-15 years in engineering roles, preferably with significant experience in O-Rings
• Experience in driving change management
• Track record of contributing to significant new projects and business wins and margin improvement work
• At ease in front of customers and in developing win-win solutions
• Dominant traits include self-confident approach, analytical mindset, and a high level of persistency

Must also have the following Leadership Competencies :

• Customer Focus, Strategic Mindset, and Financial acumen
• Ensures Accountability and drives results
• Collaborative, attract top talent, build effective teams, and drive the Vision and purpose
• Instills trust, leads with empathy, manages ambiguity, and demonstrates self-awareness

Our Offer to you

• Growth and Development opportunities
• Competitive wages
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and other auxiliary insurances
• Company paid Life insurance and additional Voluntary Life insurance