Senior Manager, Product Development, Global MPS Belt Drive (Moto)

Program Management

• Set and execute the global new product development strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap in alignment with business, technology, and customer priorities.
• Own the global development portfolio, including prioritization, sequencing, resource allocation, budgets, capacity, critical dependencies, and delivery commitments across regions and product platforms.
• Establish rigorous portfolio and stage-gate governance, ensuring timely, fact-based decisions on scope, investment, risk, readiness, and escalation.
• Lead portfolio reviews with executive stakeholders and communicate concise, decision-oriented updates on performance, tradeoffs, risks, mitigation plans, and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product Management, Business Development, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and regional leaders to convert market opportunities into executable product and technology programs.
• Drive predictable delivery against safety, quality, cost, timing, performance, and launch-readiness targets while actively managing cross-program dependencies and enterprise risks.
• Define and monitor portfolio metrics, including development cycle time, milestone attainment, resource utilization, technical risk retirement, product cost, quality, and launch performance.
• Champion continuous improvement, common global processes, digital tools, and lessons learned that increase speed, transparency, scalability, and consistency of outcomes.

Product Development

• Provide organizational accountability for end-to-end new product development, from customer insight and business case through architecture, design, validation, industrialization, launch, and post-launch learning.
• Ensure robust technical decision-making and design excellence through effective requirements management, systems engineering, design reviews, DFMEA, DVP&R, design for manufacturability, and verification and validation practices.
• Align global engineering teams, manufacturing sites, laboratories, suppliers, and external partners around common architectures, standards, interfaces, and development plans.
• Own development capability and capacity planning, including make-versus-buy decisions, technical partnerships, supplier engagement, prototype strategy, test capability, and capital requirements.
• Balance platform reuse, innovation, technical debt, product cost, manufacturability, sustainability, and speed-to-market to maximize portfolio value and long-term competitiveness.
• Ensure products and development practices comply with applicable customer regulatory, safety, quality-system, and industry requirements across all served regions.

Leadership

• Lead a global organization engineers and technical professionals through multiple engineering managers and senior technical leaders; clarify accountability, decision rights, and interfaces across regions.
• Select, coach, and develop people leaders; set clear expectations; conduct succession and talent reviews; and build a strong pipeline for critical leadership and technical roles.
• Create an inclusive, high-accountability engineering culture that promotes collaboration, constructive challenge, disciplined problem solving, innovation, and rapid organizational learning.
• Translate enterprise strategy into organizational goals and ensure managers cascade priorities, measures, and performance expectations throughout the team.
• Shape the global organization, workforce plan, location strategy, capability roadmap, and resource model needed to meet current commitments and future growth.
• Model enterprise leadership, sound judgment, and transparent communication; resolve cross-functional conflict and make timely decisions amid ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, suppliers, external development partners, and senior leaders to strengthen execution and influence strategic direction.

• 12+ years of progressive engineering and new product development experience, including significant responsibility for complex, cross-functional product portfolios from concept through commercialization. Special consideration for candidates with personal and/or professional experience in motorcycles, powersports, and scooters applications.
• 5+ years of people-leadership experience, including demonstrated success leading managers or senior technical leaders and developing a multidisciplinary organization of comparable scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading globally distributed teams and delivering through cultural, geographic, functional, and time-zone complexity.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field required; advanced technical degree or MBA preferred.
• Experience with relevant APQP/PPAP automotive, mobility, industrial, or aerospace development and quality systems, such as IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, ISO 9001, or AS9100.
• Proven record of improving engineering execution, organizational capability, speed-to-market, and measurable product or business outcomes.

Skills and Capabilities

• Enterprise-minded leader who can connect customer needs, technology choices, IP, portfolio investments, talent, and execution to business strategy.
• Demonstrated leader-of-leaders capability, including organizational design, delegation through managers, succession planning, performance management, coaching, and building diverse global teams.
• Strong command of product development systems, technical risk management, portfolio governance, resource planning, and industrialization or launch readiness.
• Financial and commercial acumen sufficient to evaluate business cases, manage operating and project budgets, make investment tradeoffs, and connect technical outcomes to value creation.
• Ability to simplify complex issues, frame options and recommendations, and communicate with credibility to executive, customer, technical, and operational audiences.
• Decisive and adaptable in ambiguous environments, with the judgment to balance urgency, technical rigor, business risk, and long-term organizational health.
• Skilled at influencing across organizational boundaries, resolving conflict, and aligning independent global teams, suppliers, and partners around shared outcomes.
• Data-driven approach to performance management and continuous improvement, with disciplined use of metrics, root-cause analysis, and operating reviews.
• Uncompromising commitment to safety, ethics, quality, inclusion, and customer success.