New Product Development Program Manager

Actalent; Moorpark (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Retirement savings opportunities

Paid time off

Job summary

Actalent is seeking a New Product Development Manager to lead integrated product teams through concept, development, and production. You will coordinate engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance to deliver highly engineered products on time and within budget.

You will manage scope, schedule, cost, risk, and performance, build detailed plans, drive trade-off decisions, and report health and risks to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, operations, or a related technical field.
• 3 to 10 years of experience in project management, engineering, operations, or program execution within a manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority in a matrixed organization.
• Strong organizational and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Experience identifying project risks and implementing mitigation strategies to protect schedule, cost, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full lifecycle execution of assigned projects, including defining and controlling scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk.
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance to ensure alignment and effective execution of project objectives.
• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and milestones that support customer requirements and business goals.
• Drive decision-making related to schedule, budget, and technical trade-offs to maintain project performance and meet delivery commitments.
• Partner closely with program management to align execution plans with customer expectations, statements of work, and contractual obligations.
• Establish and maintain effective operating rhythms, including project reviews, status meetings, and performance metrics, to ensure execution success.
• Hold team members accountable for commitments and drive timely completion of project deliverables.
• Identify project risks early, develop robust mitigation plans, and proactively address issues that could impact schedule, cost, or technical performance.
• Monitor project financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, earned value and variance analysis, and corrective action planning.
• Provide regular, transparent status updates to leadership on project health, key risks, recovery plans, and financial performance.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and structured problem-solving efforts to enhance efficiency, quality, and execution outcomes.
• Support proposal development activities by contributing execution plans, resource estimates, cost inputs, and schedule recommendations.
• Ensure a smooth and controlled transition of projects from development into production environments.
• Maintain compliance with customer requirements, statements of work, internal processes, and formal project execution or stage-gate management systems.
• Capture lessons learned and implement best practices to improve future project execution and organizational performance.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Scheduling & budgeting

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Risk management

Matrix organization experience

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Lean manufacturing

Kaizen

Earned value management

Job description

Actalent is seeking a New Product Development Manager to lead integrated product teams through concept, development, and production. You will coordinate engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance to deliver highly engineered products on time and within budget.

You will manage scope, schedule, cost, risk, and performance, build detailed plans, drive trade-off decisions, and report health and risks to leadership.