Innovation Product Manager

Job Description:

Reporting Line:

• Reports to: Divisional Innovation Manager
• Division: Automotive Plastic Fasteners
• Member of the Innovation Team, Fasteners Division, EU Regional Account

Functional Relationships:

Internal:

• Quality and Laboratory Department
• Sales Department (Account Managers)
• Tool Design, Methods & Industrialization / Costing Department

External:

• Clients
• Director of Innovation Europe

Workplace:

Beauchamp (95), France

Objectives:

• Lead and manage projects assigned to the team (technical side) and ensure their successful execution
• Identify innovative products suited to our manufacturing methods and clients
• Design and develop new products according to Quality / Cost / Delivery (Q.C.D.) constraints
• Improve existing products
• Influence through technical choices and vision
• Be a technical “leader” and energize a team-oriented, results-driven environment
• Use an “outside-in” approach to identify opportunities and deliver innovative, differentiated solutions for fasteners and adjacent products
• Collaborate with external service providers, such as injection molding suppliers, 3D printing partners, and material suppliers, to support prototype development, feasibility studies, and production readiness.

Main Tasks:

• Ensure technical interface with clients
• Design and develop new products
• Propose and develop improvements to existing products based on internal or external client requests, within productivity frameworks
• Assist draftsmen and account managers
• Update and modify technical drawings
• Create technical documentation
• Create prototypes and demonstrators to support go to market
• Ensure functionality of developed products through test execution
• Comply with client specifications
• Meet deadlines (project schedule, action plans, etc.)

Required Qualities:

• Creativity
• Rigor, autonomy, analytical mindset
• Team spirit and communication (internal and external)

Working Hours:

• As per employment contract
• Executive status with fixed number of working days
• Based on 218 days/year under the current 35-hour agreement

Education / Skills / Knowledge Required:

• Technical Degree in Mechanical, Industrial or equivalent engineering.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD software CATIA (Siemens NX, or SolidWorks is a plus).
• Proven experience in plastic product design and injection molding
• Proven experience in product developing
• Fluent in English
• Understanding of automotive manufacturing process challenges is a plus

Confidentiality Clause:

The role requires strict confidentiality regarding all secrets and processes related to the manufacturing activities of ITW France, in accordance with the Quality instruction “Confidentiality.”

Languages & Technical Tools:

• French / English
• CAD, 3D printer
• Office software