Platform Manager Eureka Floor Care Products

Midea America Corp. is a U.S. subsidiary within Midea Group, the Fortune 500 giant known for making life easier for millions around the globe. As the world’s top maker of home appliances, Midea is proud of its 166,000 employees and presence in 200 countries, including here in the U.S. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., with an innovation hub in Louisville, Kentucky, Midea America provides practical innovations that surprise and delight, creating moments to cherish at home.

Midea's lineup of appliances - from refrigerators to air conditioners, laundry solutions, and floor care are high quality, reliable, and affordable. By thoughtfully engineering performance, convenience, and design into every product, Midea delivers on the promise of every appliance.

To support this growth in the US, Midea is expanding its research and innovation capabilities at Midea America Research Center (MARC). With this objective, MARC seeks a Platform Manager for our Eureka Floor care Products.

This is a full-time position. Some domestic and international travel is required.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Drive innovation and development of market-leading vacuum products for the US Market.
• Responsible for building the North American vacuum cleaner R&D team.
• Lead the day-to-day team activities – including R&D meetings, project & strategy reviews, innovation sessions, etc.
• Identify and develop new technologies, features, and products to enable Eureka product business growth.
• Support Midea America Corporation and the China Product Division teams on technical matters concerning products sold in US market. Coordinating with multiple cross-functional teams, such as Marketing, Product Management, After Sales, Quality, and Legal.
• Lead team to become domain experts on US consumer behavior. Research and utilize consumer insights to guide development of new product platforms.
• Identify new features and models to grow US market share.
• Create intellectual property portfolio protecting technology and innovations.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps to enable successful product planning.
• Maintain an ongoing assessment of competitive products through competitive feature analysis, product teardowns, performance comparisons, marketing claim analysis, and related activities.
• Proactively identify and resolve design-related quality issues and identify product quality improvements as part of the Research and Development process.
• Manage budget, develop resources, drive teambuilding, support future lab development, and recruit approved headcount.
• Meet with customers to understand potential product offerings and associated requirements. Lead team to convert these customer needs into viable product strategies. Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
• Other duties assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering required. Other engineering fields considered with appropriate experience.
• 10 years’ engineering experience in Vacuum Cleaner Industry, 5 years as manager.
• Previous management experience with at least 2 direct reports and demonstrated strong leadership skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.
• Work efficiently in a multinational and cross-cultural team environment.
• Ability to lead technical teams and mentor engineers. Ability to communicate effectively with commercial team and customers.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in CAD software UG/Solidworks/Creo, Creo is preferred. Experience in structural design of plastic parts and related injection molding and mold
• Vision to see and ability to organize and execute a strategy.
• Strong knowledge of high-volume manufacturing processes.
• Goal-oriented, highly organized, and self-managed.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in engineering or MBA
• Previous experience with building a new team.
• History of collaborating with global teams, particularly with colleagues and partners in China
• Previous experience with consumer appliances

Featured Benefits:

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)

Comprehensive benefit package, to learn more, please visit Careers Page (midea.com)