New Product Development Lead — Remote Options

Justrite Manufacturing Co LLC; Brooksville (FL); On-site; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401K with company match

Flexible hours

Paid time off

Job summary

Justrite Safety Group in Brooksville, Florida is seeking a New Product Development Manager to own multiple product initiatives from customer need through launch. You will work with a small cross-functional team and report to the General Manager, driving prototypes, testing, commercialization and market-ready products.

You will lead VOC, manage external partners, and build business cases while balancing speed, rigor and practical commercial outcomes in a startup-like, entrepreneurial environment

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of highly relevant experience, but demonstrated accomplishment matters more than years on a resume.
• You have personally helped take multiple physical products from customer need or concept through development and commercial launch.
• New product development, product commercialization or physical product management experience.
• Customer discovery and Voice of Customer experience.
• Cross-functional program leadership and detailed execution ownership.
• Experience managing external engineering, prototype or development partners.
• Experience building product financial models or business cases.
• Ability to work credibly with engineers and technical partners.
• Demonstrated ability to move quickly with incomplete information.
• Experience in an entrepreneurial, resource-constrained environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day execution of multiple new product development initiatives from customer need through commercial launch.
• Build and maintain clear project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions and critical paths.
• Create urgency around the work and aggressively remove obstacles that threaten progress.
• Coordinate internal functions and external partners to keep development moving.
• Lead projects through AccuformNMC's development and toll-gate process while balancing speed, rigor and commercial practicality.
• Make changes to product details, requirements, sequencing and development approach as needed to achieve the agreed strategic outcome.
• Personally engage customers, end users and relevant stakeholders to understand problems, workflows, unmet needs and buying behavior.
• Build VOC plans and translate customer learning into practical product requirements.
• Use prototypes, pilots, customer testing and market feedback to validate assumptions and drive iterations.
• Know the difference between useful customer evidence and opinions that should not drive product decisions.
• Identify, evaluate, select and manage external engineering, product-development, prototype, testing and technical partners.
• Define deliverables, timelines, economics and success criteria.
• Hold partners accountable for commitments and intervene quickly when projects are off track.
• Build productive relationships with high-value development resources while continuously evaluating whether the current partner is right for the next stage.
• Operate within approved project budgets and established spending authorities, escalating larger commitments appropriately.
• Build and maintain financial models and business cases for new products.
• Understand the relationship between customer need, price, cost, volume, margin and commercial adoption.
• Update assumptions as VOC, technical development and market evidence evolve.
• Provide clear recommendations to senior leadership and obtain approval for material changes to approved business cases.
• Work closely with Commercialization, Product, Operations, Sales, Marketing and IT to prepare products for launch.
• Ensure product requirements, customer needs, economics, documentation, operational readiness and launch plans are aligned.
• Partner with the Commercialization team through launch and early market performance.
• Once a product is launched, transition ongoing product ownership to the appropriate Product Manager.

Skills

New product development

Product commercialization

Voice of Customer

External partners management

Cross-functional leadership

Financial modeling

Entrepreneurial environment

Project management

Job description

Justrite Safety Group in Brooksville, Florida is seeking a New Product Development Manager to own multiple product initiatives from customer need through launch. You will work with a small cross-functional team and report to the General Manager, driving prototypes, testing, commercialization and market-ready products.

You will lead VOC, manage external partners, and build business cases while balancing speed, rigor and practical commercial outcomes in a startup-like, entrepreneurial environment