Latam - Product Development Manager

Team overview and job responsibilities
We are looking for a R&D Materials and Laboratory Latam Manager to join our team.
Reporting to the LATAM R&D director, the R&D Materials and Lab Latam Manager will be responsible for driving wire and cable compounds development for supporting key Design to Cost, New Product Development, Plant support, and resolving and Quality issues. She/he shall also participate in a proactive manner in all other interfaces of the material where R&D is not strictly the primary responsible (purchasing, logistics, industrial, etc).
Job responsibilities
- Develop/formulate new compounds and/or modify the existing materials to improve product functionality for Energy and TLC Business;
- Coordination, optimization, and development other materials like tapes, additives, metals and others;
- Lead the DTC (Design To Cost) projects from materials side;
- Drive a new design for sustainability approach according HQ and local projects;
- Carry out technical-industrial feasibility study for materials and compounds;
- Develop the supplier and material specification;
- Scale-up & prototyping: from laboratory trials to big batch production;
- Continuous improvement of existent materials in the regional factories, search + implementation of cost-effective and saving opportunities in all possible products, materials, processes, and methodologies;
- Qualification of new Raw Materials and/or alternatives and direct involvement in the SSRM (Single Source Raw Materials) projects;
- Suppliers: Work together with the regional purchasing team to develop new strategic suppliers following the procurement strategy guidelines (HQ and local). In some case shall participate in supplier audit process;
- Develop Latam Compounds Roadmap. In addition, to actively participate in the Energy & Telecom Product Roadmap deployment together with the rest of the R&D team;
- Manage the complete material lifecycle inside the regional Prysmian factories where the material shall be adequate to existent or new manufacturing processes and technologies as well as to ensure the material provides value as per the regional business strategy (Energy and TLC).
- Material Innovation & Sustainability - Responsible to develop the material innovation long term plan (3Y-5Y) for South America Region the duty is to scout for innovation partners (such as universities, technology centers ), build up the innovation ecosystem for Prysmian BR, the plan must be aligned with the regional business strategy;
- Technical support to the factory in any industrialization phase of the material/compound using the approach of lifecycle management end-to-end with focus on introduction, volume scale-up, stability
and phase-out;
- Technical support to Logistics in new IC flows implementation;
- Technical support to Laboratories: Development of the laboratory testing capabilities South America region;
- Documentation & Reporting: generate all the necessary test reports, material specifications, quality assessments, process documents;
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a person with the following skills and motivations:
- Bachelor or Master in Science or Engineering in Polymers, Plastic, Materials or Chemistry
- Proven experience in Laboratory and Compound plants;
- Pure customer focus - Internal and External;
- Preference for a driven, operative & strong motivated person.
- Deep business mindset. Sensibility to capture the business rational before jumping into actual decisions or actions;
- Ability to transform business decisions into R&D actions;
- Availability to short but possibly frequent trips, domestic and abroad;
- Flexibility and Dynamism;
- Good relationship approach - good communication skills;
- Have social intelligence and skills for networking;
- Team working capability;
- Problem solving and target oriented - pragmatic to solve engineering problems;
- Capability to set and to handle pragmatically the priorities;
- Capacity to understand and conceptualizes complexity into concise frameworks;
- Flexibility and capability to manage changes during the work;
- Wish to quickly learn and get involved;
- Advanced English and Spanish, written and spoken;
- High people leadership skills;
- High analytical skills.
- Prysmian Group, as an Equal Opportunity Employer, aims to attract and recruit individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills and abilities, who will enhance the quality of service and contribute to the Group's success. Prysmian Group is committed to the development of an organization that prioritizes talent, where people feel respected, appreciated and free to fully express their human potential. Prysmian Group strongly believes that diversity drives meritocracy and brings significant value at all levels of the organization, increases the possibility of capturing market opportunities and maximizing value for our customers and shareholders. Prysmian Group bases its decisions on principles of equality, with evaluations based on the type

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