About us
At Dyson we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic.
Dyson offers a unique opportunity for skilled individuals to invent, design and develop market leading products for the global market. By working in our world class research, design and development (RDD) department, these professionals have the opportunity to work alongside leading technical specialists and highly motivated creative people to create products which fulfil our vision of being truly different and better than our competitors.
About the role
We are looking for a talented Programme Manager to join Dyson’s New Product Innovation (NPI) Programmes team. This exciting position will focus on categories of Robotics and Audio.
As a Lead 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.
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Management and integration of multiple cross functional teams to deliver projects to required SOP and Launch dates.
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Coordinate and communicate project status between teams within the organisations to ensure effective and timely input; resolve conflicts and lead solutions.
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Challenge concepts in order to achieve the optimum design within the boundaries of time, specification and cost, maintain and manage the risks, actions and issues trackers.
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Manage resource allocation activities against current time plans and work with Finance for overall project cost management.
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Take an active, hands-on role to understand how engineering problems are resolved thoroughly and help support that resolution
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Work with development teams to ensure new technologies maximise the performance of new products
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Manage multiple stakeholder’s expectations across all categories from early stage to launch.
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Ensure the team use established Dyson development processes, good engineering practice and discipline to deliver a fully resolved solution to the correct standards
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Information management – governance and organisation of project related information.
About you
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At least 3 years’ experience of early-stage life cycle projects (NPI), ideally gained in an innovative engineering based organisation.
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Good knowledge and experience of all stages of the project lifecycle, including development of business cases, mobilisation of projects.
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Management of a suite of projects, including multi-disciplined teams across a variety of delivery frameworks
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Outstanding interpersonal communication skills
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In-depth knowledge and experience of all stages of the project and programme life-cycle, including development of business cases, mobilisation of projects.
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Knowledge of multiple project management methodologies. (Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid) backed up by experience of applying them successfully in practice
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Confident; comfortable interacting with senior executives without diluting unpleasant news or well-reasoned analysis.
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.
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.
Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.
Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.
The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
