Senior Director, Product Innovation

• Lead the creation of 5-year product roadmaps for products & solutions across all coding and marking technologies that align with Videojet's corporate strategy and balance risk for the business.
• Drive deep market insight and competitive analysis—including future scenario building—to anticipate industry changes and unmet customer needs over a 5-year horizon.
• Communicate product innovation strategy and secure buy-in from the President and Vice Presidents at quarterly Strategic Innovation Review meetings.
• Champion customer-centric innovation by leveraging a team of Product Innovation Managers and User Experience teams to identify unmet customer needs and desired outcomes through extensive qualitative and quantitative customer and market research.
• Build compelling new business cases around emerging opportunities and incorporate them into the product roadmap to support the company's 5-year-old growth targets.
• Partner with the VP R&D, and engineering teams to define new product innovations, technology success criteria, roadmaps, and business opportunities.
• Drive strategic business partnerships with external providers of product innovations and evaluate third-party and open innovation partners to assure profitable business models.
• Develop Standard Work for Customer Insights leveraging VES and other relevant tools
• Own the team's primary financial metric—Incremental Pipeline Value from New Product Development—to achieve the company's 5-year forecasted growth targets.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Product Innovation Managers and User Experience Team, set strategic direction, coaching for career growth, and cultivating a culture of bold innovation.
• Contribute to and lead select Videojet strategic initiatives beyond the core product roadmap, in partnership with senior leadership.

These are the must-have requirements for the role:

• Lead the creation of 5-year product roadmaps for products & solutions across all coding and marking technologies that align with Videojet's corporate strategy and balance risk for the business.
• Drive deep market insight and competitive analysis—including future scenario building—to anticipate industry changes and unmet customer needs over a 5-year horizon.
• Communicate product innovation strategy and secure buy-in from the President and Vice Presidents at quarterly Strategic Innovation Review meetings.
• Champion customer-centric innovation by leveraging a team of Product Innovation Managers and User Experience teams to identify unmet customer needs and desired outcomes through extensive qualitative and quantitative customer and market research.
• Build compelling new business cases around emerging opportunities and incorporate them into the product roadmap to support the company's 5-year-old growth targets.
• Partner with the VP R&D, and engineering teams to define new product innovations, technology success criteria, roadmaps, and business opportunities.
• Drive strategic business partnerships with external providers of product innovations and evaluate third-party and open innovation partners to assure profitable business models.
• Develop Standard Work for Customer Insights leveraging VES and other relevant tools
• Own the team's primary financial metric—Incremental Pipeline Value from New Product Development—to achieve the company's 5-year forecasted growth targets.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Product Innovation Managers and User Experience Team, set strategic direction, coaching for career growth, and cultivating a culture of bold innovation.
• Contribute to and lead select Videojet strategic initiatives beyond the core product roadmap, in partnership with senior leadership.

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