Product Development Manager

Are you an experienced Product Development Manager seeking an exciting new opportunity?

Are you an experienced Product Development Manager looking to work for a Top Fortune 500 company?

Are you an experienced Product Development Manager looking to work for a company leveraging the best in technology?



If you have answered yes to the above you need to read on as this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

We have been retained by our client who is a leading American multinational medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturing company to assist them with this hire, our client founded their EMEA Development Centre in Limerick, Ireland which is designed specifically to accommodate Scrum development and is a highly collaborative environment based on LEAN principles with a strong emphasis on continuous integration, automated testing & continuous delivery.

This really is a superb opportunity for an experienced Product Development Manager to take ownership for the design; development and delivery of high-quality business applications, software solutions and services to meet business technology requirements.

Some Responsibilities of the Product Development Manager:

Leading large cross functional teams in Web, Mobile, Salesforce and Workday development.
Understand the development team members, the Agile / Lean ways of working to facilitate the introduction of Continuous Improvement based solutions into Product Development Process.
Work collaboratively with Program Managers and Software Development Managers to identify the required skill sets and resources needed to deliver Software Products.
As primary culture champion, ensure that the EDC values remain strong as the organisation scales
Create a learning environment and encourage meaningful growth by empowering development team members to take ownership of their development.
Facilitate and support Talent and Career Development of Team Members.
Facilitate the journey from hiring, on-boarding, engagement and growth of new hires.
Foster Graduates who will join the Teams; their needs and how their chosen discipline evolves.
Facilitate and support tech talks and Communities of Practice across the teams to promote knowledge share and awareness.
Ensure key values remain at the core of the delivery model, giving people and team’s purpose, meaning and context as the organisation scales & grows.
Assume responsibility for conducting an iterative approach to performance management, supporting all levels of leadership within the development teams to ensure success.
Assist & encourage teams to enhance the delivery processes, ensuring continuous learning, exchange of ideas, information and knowledge, supporting common practices through facilitating and encouraging community workshops.
Support the creation of a scalable structure and environment, building a network around collaborative teams and motivated people.
Offer clarity and guidance, work with teams to identify any knowledge and skills gaps and build strategies to take action.
Identify and recommending new approaches to drive autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Respond to individual aspirations and goals rather than following prescribed career plans.
Develop and establish inspiring methods to stimulate and boost meaningful employee growth and learning.
Sponsor contractors and facilitate the integration and harmonisation of their skills into the development teams

The Product Development Manager shall have the following experience:

Previous experience of entire Software lifecycle management process plus people management while also key experience of interacting with technology leaders close to C level
Experienced within Digital Technology Development with a successful track record in leading large, cross functional teams, in complex multi-disciplinary environment
Strong experience shaping and supporting a strong culture within a rapidly growing Agile organisation.
A deep first-hand understanding of how effective culture and employee growth initiatives work as organisations scale.
A creative and effective history of building unique initiatives for employee learning and development.
A proven self-starter with lots of initiative and creativity.
Be courageous in considering latest thinking and try out new approaches.
Care about the happiness, health and welfare of your people.
Ability to identify issues impeding teams and individual growth and a sense for how to fix those problems.
Capability to bring Agile & Lean principles and practices to their people approach.
Apply continuous feedback and relentless improvement.
Outstanding interpersonal skills with ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving environment.

On offer to the Product Development Manager:

Competitive Salary
Substantial Benefits Package
Onsite facilities
State of the art working environment


Plus much more