Vice President - Global Quality, Product Testing & Manufacturing

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier.

We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.

This role will be responsible for ensuring the effective and timely execution of Global Quality, Product Testing and Manufacturing deliverables across the entire product life cycle on new programs as well as sustaining existing products.

The position will support the NPD process in ensuring that all lessons learned, and best practices are applied for new projects to achieve five star customer product star ratings.

The role will provide leadership within ongoing Product Testing and Manufacturing activities to help to identify risks. The role will also lead project risk assessment with a clear focus on testing, design, manufacturing quality, reliability and cost.

This position will also lead the governance for the assessment of design at NPD and NPI stages and will work closely with the Operational Excellence Director and departmental heads, to ensure successful and profitable product outcomes.

This position will support continual improvement of existing programs to establish an effective and proactive quality, manufacturing & testing culture.

Job Description Main Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Product Development and Engineering teams for the design, development and manufacture for Ninja products within and not limited to testing and manufacturing.
• Strong ability to Identify and understand risk and opportunities for improvement through multiple workstreams such as FMEA & Project risk assessment reviews, working closely with other departments
• Ensure that the most cost-effective way is sought to achieve the relevant primary functions whilst ensuring quality, testing, and reliability
• Lead and determine risks and recognize operational issues and challenges and to recommend pragmatic solutions in line with the departmental key objectives
• Ensure that projects are managed effectively to completion, on-time, within budget to the desired quality
• Partner closely with departmental leaders to ensure alignment on the relevant key objectives as well as helping to determine customer expectations
• Effective presentation and interpersonal skills meeting the needs of all levels within the organization up to and including the executive management team

The incumbent will also be capable in the following :

• Provide leadership for NPD / NPI Quality, Manufacturing, & Testing activities
• Support in defining product specification and hardware specification
• Lead activities around facilitation of FMEA for products and process
• Undertake Value Analysis and Value Engineering reviews
• Lead cross-functional activities in the US and China ensuring that root-cause is determined by applying the 5Y process and contribute to solutions for improvement
• Undertake product benchmarking and the establishment of performance metrics and testing methods
• Coordinate and communicate learnings associated with product and process analysis to NPD & NPI Engineering & Quality teams and to drive continual improvement
• Ensure that lessons learned are applied for design and process
• Present at the Executive reviews the status of projects through project risk assessments, NPD Quality & Manufacturing Engineering reviews
• Manage field returns and other key quality metrics to assess product and process performance in his / her area to continually drive product quality improvements effectively and in a timely manner
• Be an integral member in phase gate and design reviews to assess production readiness in terms of quality, reliability and manufacturability

Qualifications / Requirements

The successful candidate will have proven testing and manufacturing leadership experience and the ability to deliver results in larger matrix organizations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or associated qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in a testing and manufacturing role associated with consumer products
• 10+ of experience supervising engineering and / or testing personnel
• Demonstrated experience with traditional quality analytical methods (Weibull, FMEA, SPC, APQP, MSA)
• Will have demonstrated the ability in a previous company and successfully executed a similar program of works
• Experienced across numerous roles within Design & Development, Quality Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering & Operations
• Ability to lead / manage multiple initiatives simultaneously is vital to success in this role
• Must be able to operate comfortably in a fast-paced environment with constantly shifting priorities
• History of applying Value Analysis & Value Engineering
• In depth knowledge and proven ability to steer the product life cycle process
• Highly skilled with defect avoidance methodologies such as DFMEA, PFMEA, DOE

At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day.

We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration.

With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.

YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET

• Lead us to be RARELY SATISFIED
• Make things better each day; PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION
• Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
• Deliver something great; WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT
• Be clear and honest, COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT

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