Description

Responsible for advising, implementing, developing, testing, and managing the product within FreshBed. Guarding the continuity and quality of the product development making the product and business objectives a reality in an efficient and scalable way.

Key tasks:

• End-to-end managing of the FreshBed product development process, frameworks, product development operations, and implementation within the set milestones. 
• Developing and defining the product development roadmap with (future) product requirements and technological applications 
• Verifying and proving applications meeting the quality assurance standards including verification and development of test methods
• Initiating, formulating, and developing (feasible) innovation ideas for product optimizations (both hard- and software)
• Is go-to-person for (international) product development (both in- and external)
• Analyzing research results and periodically reporting within the MT on the progress within the product development and making suggestions for improvements for the product development strategy
• Acting within the Product Development team as a cooperating foreman, providing guidance and leadership on their performance, process, and professional development. 
• Obtaining necessary quality certifications, processes, and audits (UL/TUV/SGS) and advising within the MT on the impact of Product Development processes towards quality requirements
• Selecting, instructing, and managing suppliers according to the FreshBed Product Development Frameworks and high-quality certification standards. 
• Together with MT define projects and are eligible for innovation initiatives and WBSO subsidies. 

Skills and expertise:

• You have a proven track record of at least 5 years in a similar senior position and solid knowledge of thermodynamics, unobtrusive sensors, climate systems, certification of products and materials research.
• You have experience in working in a fast-past ScaleUp enviroment preferable within IoT and/or App Controlled hardware products.
• You have experience and knowledge to find technical solutions for the needs of our customers and lead-by-example the development team to implement these technical solutions.
• You take ownership of tasks and have the ability to independently take decisions. 
• You have strong project management skills and experience using specific methods like IPMA/PRINCE2.
• You are skilled to make practical suggestions for solving problems which can be acknowledged of, explained to and accepted by others.
• You have a ‘can-do’ mentality, get energy from new challenges and like to ‘get things done’.
• You are able continue to function effectively in stressful situations by smartly applying structure to time, space and priorities for yourself and your team to achieve the product roadmap objectives.
• You can easily connect with people and ability to communicate effectively and are capable to present points of view in an emphatic and enthusiastic way to convince others.
• You stimulate initiatives of your team to come with solutions and suggestions that contribute to the success of the company.
• You train, coach and guide your team in order to exceed their performance and knowledge.
• You like to take accountability for consistent and high-quality product development and delivery.