The NPI Manufacturing Manager at Logitech is responsible for driving manufacturing strategies to ensure new product manufacturability and successful launch. This role partners with business groups, operations, engineering, and manufacturers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and delivery for new products in a high-tech, high-volume environment.
What You'll Do
- Apply Logitech NPI Playbook to ensure key gates are accomplished from the early product development phase to mass production
- Develop and execute an NPI manufacturing plan (Make/Buy) aligned to Operations global strategy
- Participate in new supplier assessment and selection
- Develop product should-cost with the Value Engineering team, and contribute to cost reduction initiatives with engineering and procurement functions to achieve target cost
- Drive early and on-going operations involvement with engineering, including PAs and PBs, to ensure new products and technologies are designed for manufacturability and propose alternative manufacturing approaches
- Identify product, manufacturing and supply chain related risks, and proactively manages mitigation and contingency plan to secure the launch date (OSD)
- Drive manufacturing activities at the suppliers to ensure manufacturing and supply chain readiness and to meet launch KPIs
- Contribute to CIP with Value Engineering team in product teardowns and benchmarking
- Drive manufacturing cost reduction pertaining to lean manufacturing and process improvements for sustaining products
- Interface with engineering teams on new and sustaining product processes, value engineering improvements and new technology integration
- Participate in Logitech’s innovation development (Techno Bricks) and lead the industrialization of new technologies
- Implement improvements to the NPI process and Playbook, applying AI and digitalization where appropriate
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of experience in high tech, high volume manufacturing environment
- Effective project leader with the ability to influence across functions and promote change
- Manufacturing expertise with a proven track record of delivering improvements in efficiency, quality, costs, and product launch
- Experience in new product manufacturing launch, with the ability to manage a few launches at the same time
- Experience in Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA), and lean manufacturing tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication and facilitation skills in both Mandarin and English
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time to manufacturing sites across Asia
Nice to Have
- Project Management Certification (PMP) Credential is a plus
Technical Stack
- NPI Playbook
- Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
- Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Lean manufacturing tools
- AI
- digitalization
Team & Environment
Cross-functional collaboration with business group, operations, engineering, and manufacturers
Benefits & Compensation
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits packages
- Flexible working environments designed to help care for yourself and your loved ones
- Support for good physical, financial, emotional, intellectual and social wellbeing
- Hybrid work model allowing some employees to work remotely while others work on-premises
- Empowerment of collaboration and fostering of play
- Inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and differences
- Opportunities for innovation and industrialization of new technologies
Work Mode
Most jobs are open to work from home from most locations; hybrid model allows remote and on-premises work. Locations include remote eligible locations and manufacturing sites across Asia for travel.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
