NPI Program Lead: Flexible Schedule & Growth

Search-Leaders,-LL; White Bear Lake (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Generous PTO

Job summary

Search-Leaders, LL in Minnesota seeks an experienced NPI Program Manager to lead cross-functional product introductions from concept through production launch and post-launch stabilization. You will own schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communications across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and sales to meet objectives.

A Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in PM, NPI, or manufacturing operations are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, operations, business, project management, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience spanning project management, new product introduction, product development, manufacturing engineering, or operations.
• Demonstrated success directing cross-functional initiatives from concept through production launch.
• Experience using Planview Project Advantage for plans, milestones, risks, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional NPI programs from concept to production launch and post-launch stabilization.
• Build and maintain comprehensive project plans with scope, milestones, resources, risks, and dates.
• Facilitate design reviews, Stage-Gate reviews, and launch-readiness assessments.
• Coordinate stakeholders across product management, engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, supply chain, finance, sales, and customer-facing teams.
• Drive prototype builds, pilot runs, testing, validation, and ramp-up.
• Ensure tooling, BOMs, routings, work instructions, and documentation are production-ready.
• Champion manufacturability, assembly, inspection, reliability, serviceability, and cost objectives.
• Manage schedules, capital and tooling costs, and project financials.
• Identify risks and maintain mitigation plans; capture lessons learned.
• Monitor early production performance and lead issue resolution.
• Lead transfer of programs into normal production ownership and repeatable NPI practices.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Planview Project Advantage

Stage-Gate

Risk management

Budgeting

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Planview Project Advantage

ERP

MES

PLM

PDM

Job description

Search-Leaders, LL in Minnesota seeks an experienced NPI Program Manager to lead cross-functional product introductions from concept through production launch and post-launch stabilization. You will own schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communications across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and sales to meet objectives.

A Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in PM, NPI, or manufacturing operations are required.