Project Manager Lead

About us

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, developing innovative products and technologies that are different, better and designed around real user needs. Our Research, Design and Development teams combine design, engineering and manufacturing expertise to take products from early concept through to production.

About the role

We are looking for a talented Lead Project Manager to join Dyson’s New Product Development (NPD) team. This exciting position will be working in Robot category.

The Programme Management team and this role have a high level of visibility, benefiting from a close relationship with the Robotics category Senior Leadership team, which enables them to deliver, alongside the hugely talented team of software, mechanical, technical engineers across multiple regions of Dyson offices. Key focus on the role will be software driven development structure, where we aim to have integrated programme on robot intelligence embedded delivery model. Also, to ensure bringing early innovation into the robotics development to live, where to create life changing innovations to the business.

The role of Project Manager interfaces with many stakeholders and functions across the business, spanning many functions from NPI Innovation and Research into Commercial, Operations, Quality and Finance.

Responsibilities

As a Project Manager at Dyson, you will ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and gain a sufficient level of understanding of the development to be able to communicate the projects status to senior management, whilst being comfortable in challenging the paradigm when required.

You will work across all disciplines of design, research, procurement, manufacturing, commercial and marketing to ensure an integrated project delivery strategy aligns to the wider business strategy. Our briefs can often be loose and changeable, so you must be comfortable in a fast moving, ambiguous environment. Skills in managing a dynamic environment will be critical to the role.

• Management and integration of multiple cross functional teams to deliver projects from conceptual ideation stage to prototyping phase maturity for all early innovation and research projects from Dyson.
• Ensure governance process of technology maturity are managed across agile product development cycle of early phase innovation of robotics project.
• Establish a clear accountability and responsibility across external vendors to support delivery of the product at high resolution software quality.
• Coordinate and communicate project status between teams within the organisations to ensure effective and timely input; resolve conflicts and lead solutions.
• Challenge concepts to achieve the optimum design within the boundaries of time, specification and cost, maintain and manage the risks, actions and issues trackers.
• Manage resource allocation activities against current time plans and work with Finance for overall project cost management.
• Take an active, hands-on role to understand how engineering problems are resolved thoroughly and help support that resolution
• Work with development teams to ensure new technologies maximise the performance of new products
• Manage multiple stakeholder’s expectations across all categories from early stage to launch.
• Ensure the team use established Dyson development processes, good engineering practice and discipline to deliver a fully resolved solution to the correct standards
• Information management – governance and organisation of project related information.

About you

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (preferable First or Second-Class Upper preferred).
• Experience of agile working using Atlassian tools is desirable.
• Experience working with external vendors, coordination across different team and complex cross-functional programmes is highly desirable.
• Proven experience coordinating delivery across multiple Agile teams within a complex technology environment.
• Preferred to have robotics development project management experience.
• Experience working in a dynamic and innovative environment.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM) certified is preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified is preferred.
• Proficiency in Mandarin and English is essential.
• Flexibility to travel to China for partnership discussion and project management.
• Outstanding project management capabilities (i.e. estimating and planning, risk management, status reporting, budget tracking, benefits analysis, stakeholder management and communication, resource management)
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to build productive working relationships and influence.
• Confident; comfortable with interacting with senior executives without being tempted to dilute unpleasant news or back down from well-reasoned analysis.
• Assertive; readiness to press teams to take remedial action when required.
• Credible; ability to demonstrate a good level of understanding of engineering processes. to work with design teams throughout the project development cycle

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.