.Programme Manager - Continuous Product Development, Mira CHELTENHAM, United Kingdom | req61465 Programme Manager - Continuous Product Development, Mira Onsite-Cheltenham. Salary up to £75k subject to skills & experience, plus a fantastic benefits package including private health care, car cash allowance and company bonuses. Designing award-winning products for our market-leading brands – Mira Showers, Rada and Kohler UK - is our lifeblood. We focus on investment, investing in the best technology and resources available and investing in each and every individual. Put simply, it's who we are. Whether you arrive at our factories in Cheltenham or Hull, have a visit from a Service Engineer or pick up the phone to our Customer Service team, you'll instantly see that, no matter our department or location, we all share the same values at Kohler Mira. From day one you're part of the Kohler Mira community – a collaborative, forward focused team with a shared pride in our work and commitment to delight our customers, develop innovative products and services and inspire our people (who knew a bathroom manufacturing company did all this?!) But, to get to where we want to be, we are looking for Programme Manager- Continuous Product Development. Find out more below! Working as a key member of the Kohler Mira New Product Development management team, you will be responsible for leading the continuous development of our products, ensuring Kohler Mira's high engineering standards are maintained throughout the entire product life cycle. The role plays a pivotal part in championing quality, value engineering and continuous advancement of a diverse product portfolio across Kohler Mira's product categories – Mixers, Electrics, Digital, Trays, Enclosures and Energy Recovery. The role will interact with products across all of the core UK brands – Mira, Rada, Kohler UK & Recoup. You will lead a talented team of engineers driving current product portfolio integrity initiatives to reduce warranty and maximise customer satisfaction, whilst championing the building and maintenance of best practice process and procedures to ensure lessons learned are carried forward in all new product development. Specific Responsibilities A key member of the Kohler Mira New Product Development leadership team providing strategic input from a current product development and technical viewpoint. Working with the NPD Director and leadership team to develop processes, policies and procedures to achieve World Class standards, feeding in the lessons learned from the current product portfolio. Acts as a point of design authority in the new product development process & validation stages to ensure new products delivered to market will meet the high standards set and deliver acceptable product warranty levels in the field
