Sr Program Manager - New Product Development & Strategic Growth
ConfidentialKEY SUCCESS DELIVERABLES Accelerate New Product Development – Lead priority pump NPD/NPI programs from opportunity identification and business case through product development, validation, industrialization, launch, and post-launch review. Drive Strategic Growth Initiatives – Lead cross-functional programs focused on new markets, applications, product adjacencies, platform extensions, portfolio expansion, localization, and other strategic growth priorities. Deliver Commercial Outcomes – Ensure programs are anchored in clearly defined customer needs, market opportunities, revenue potential, margin objectives, and return on investment. Improve Speed to Market – Establish clear milestones, critical paths, decision points, and cross-functional accountability to accelerate development and commercialization. Drive Cross-Functional Execution – Create alignment across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance around program objectives, priorities, resources, risks, and deliverables. Strengthen NPD/NPI Discipline – Drive effective use of CIRCOR's stage-gate/NPD process while ensuring the process enables speed, effective decision-making, and commercial outcomes. Provide Portfolio Visibility – Establish clear reporting of program status, risks, financial performance, resource requirements, and key decisions to Product Management and business leadership. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES New Product Development & Commercialization Lead cross-functional execution of priority pump NPD and NPI programs from concept through commercial launch. Partner with Product Management to translate market requirements, voice of customer, competitive insights, and application needs into clear product and program requirements. Develop integrated program plans covering product definition, engineering, sourcing, manufacturing readiness, testing, certification, commercial launch, and customer adoption. Establish program milestones, critical paths, decision gates, resource requirements, and accountabilities. Partner closely with Engineering to manage technical development, design reviews, validation, testing, and product readiness. Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to ensure manufacturability, sourcing readiness, capacity, cost, quality, and successful production launch. Partner with Sales and Product Management to develop launch plans, identify target customers and applications, support early customer engagement, and drive commercial adoption. Establish appropriate post-launch reviews to evaluate revenue, margin, customer adoption, product performance, and achievement of the original business case. Strategic Growth Initiatives Lead high-priority strategic initiatives intended to expand CIRCOR's position in existing and new pump markets and applications. Support programs involving new applications, market adjacencies, product platform extensions, portfolio gaps, product localization, cost/value engineering, and other organic growth opportunities. Translate strategic growth opportunities into structured programs with clear scope, business objectives, financial targets, milestones, resources, and ownership. Coordinate customer, market, competitive, technical, and operational inputs required to evaluate and execute growth opportunities. Work with Product Management and Sales to validate customer demand and commercial assumptions before significant investment decisions. Drive rapid resolution of cross-functional issues that impede program progress or commercialization. Business Case & Financial Management Partner with Product Management and Finance to develop robust business cases for NPD and strategic growth investments. Establish clear program-level targets for revenue, gross margin, investment, product cost, payback, and return on investment as appropriate. Manage program budgets and forecast cost-to-complete. Track program performance against approved investment and business-case assumptio…