Director

Job Description : DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION FRANCE Growing family SME in the tooling sector, very established in its market, and located 30 minutes east of Paris, looking for an innovation director and F/M design office. Reporting to the general management, the innovation and BE F/M director leads a team of 5 people to improve the range of existing products and to imagine the tools of tomorrow with the objective of ensuring the performance of the company in the future. . As such, the innovation director and BE F/M: Establishes, manages and validates the budgets, schedules and objectives of his department Defines and proposes the orientations of its service (development, innovation, or continuous improvement) in coherence with the strategy of the company Develops and coordinates relations with technological partners (universities, public and/or private laboratories, private groups, etc.) Provide cross-functional technical assistance within the company Organizes and ensures the regulatory and normative monitoring of products from their design to their recycling Performs technological and competitive watch Develops, formalizes and monitors the product development/innovation plan Supervises tests and trials, analyzes results and determines product adjustments, ensures the correction of anomalies and their follow-up Ensures regular reporting to management on the progress of projects Coming from a technical training of engineer type or equivalent, you justify about 10 years on positions in design office which led you to act on innovation subjects. Your knowledge of mechanics, even thermal engineering, are real assets for managing your teams. Force of proposal, able to take initiatives to identify market opportunities through innovation, your commitment and your autonomy will allow you to achieve your objectives. You are comfortable with a multitude of internal or external interfaces, and you know how to manage projects operationally as well as provide a strategic vision. For this position of Director of Innovation and BE F/M based 30 minutes east of Paris, your desire to be a player in a strong technical and human dynamic is a key to success.

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