Product Development and Innovation
Product Development and Innovation
Marshall Group
Cambridge, East of England, England
Job ID : 664671513253524254592f656d4646424a773d3d
Job Description :
Product Development and Innovation
Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click
- Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, healthcare cash plan for you and your family and an extensive flexible benefit program
- Hybrid working
- We are able to offer flexibility around hours and working patterns
- Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
Why join Marshall Futureworx in this role?
- Explore a broad spectrum of novel and emerging technologies and markets
- Generate and assess new ideas for products and services that solve problems of practical significance in those markets
- Create digital and physical solutions for the most value ideas including the development of IP, prototypes, minimum viable and production standard products and services using seed investment from Marshall
- Launch and grow new business ventures to commercialise the resulting products and services to provide a long term return on investment to Marshall
Your responsibilities will include:
Exploring -
- Lead/deliver sprint cycle based exploration of specific themes/topics and un-themed out of cycle exploration through research, attendance at industry events, development of relationships and continuous learning and development to grow expertise in your own specialist field(s) and breadth of knowledge across a range of technologies and industry sectors
- Recognise and understand complex future problems, demonstrate thought leadership to identify ideas, products and services to address those future problems and assess the potential of new ideas using a structured and rigorous approach
- Generate business cases for valuable ideas, products and services which demonstrate understanding of the market, market and non-market forces, potential customers, potential opportunity value, the route to commercialisation, scenario based financial modelling and make reasoned decisions and recommendations based on the output of that assessment
- Communicate exploring and business case outputs to stakeholders in both verbal and written format
Building Networks -
- Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders, customers, industry, academia and government
- Develop trusted partnerships and collaborations in technology, product and market sectors of interest
- Attend and present at seminars, industry events, etc.
- Create thought leadership content for social media and the Futureworx website
Creating Solutions -
- Lead/deliver the development of innovative products or services to solve complex future problems ensuring they meet the needs of the market in terms of performance, cost and quality
- Identify, record and, with support from commercial, protect Intellectual Property
- Perform project management activities including development, maintenance and management of schedule, risk management and change management throughout the development life cycle
- Employ systems engineering principals and methodology throughout the development life cycle to effectively identify, capture and verify compliance with requirements
- Perform trade studies based on research, experimentation and analysis to enable effective and agile decision making
- Perform complex specialist and where required multi-domain/discipline analysis to substantiate products and services and make reasoned decisions based on the outputs of that analysis
- Develop complex digital simulations and digital twins to understand, test and experiment in the virtual environment
- Identify and work effectively with suppliers and subcontractors including the development of statements of work and other collaborative documents
- Design and support manufacture of physical prototypes and minimum viable products for commercialisation
- Perform testing to verify the prototypes and MVP product or service meets the performance and quality requirements of the market and potential customers
Building Ventures -
- Support development and effective delivery of the business growth strategy
- Develop effective and trusted relationships with commercialisation partners, customers and industry stakeholders
- Support contract negotiations providing relevant input and insight
- Support delivery of contractual obligations to ensure customer satisfaction
Continuous Learning and Development -
- Create and maintain a personal learning and development plan which enhances strengths and subject matter expertise and seeks to broaden skills and experience
- Maintain subject matter expertise through ongoing research, application of skills, mentoring of other team members and participation in relevant specialist groups
Apply if you have most of the following:
- Degree level or equivalent
- Professional qualification(s) in area of individual expertise, e.g. chartered status, highly desirable
- Experience in an innovation, development or start-up environment highly desirable
- Leadership of an innovation or development team highly desirable
- Curiosity, learning and open mindedness
- Scientific, technical, engineering and mathematical excellence and experience in areas of individual expertise
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills
- Excellent analytical skills in combination with evidence based decision making
- Excellence and experience in computer/software packages in areas of individual expertise
- Manufacturing of mock ups and/or prototypes highly desirable
- Test and evaluation of technology and products
- Commercial and financial acumen
- Competence in project and risk management
The benefits we will offer you include:
- 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
- Pension contributions up to 9%
- Private medical insurance
- Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
- Life assurance at 4x basic salary
- Enhanced parental leave and pay
- Paid volunteering leave
- Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools
Additional local needs
- Comfortable with a hybrid working environment
- Able to travel for business both in the UK and abroad if required
- Able to hold UK Security Clearance
- Full UK driving license highly desirable
Formed in 2021, Futureworx is a standalone business comprising some of our very best engineering talent, relentlessly focused on identifying and defining the next generation of Marshall products that will take us into exciting new technologies, markets and customers.
Operating from the city’s prestigious St John’s Innovation Park, Futureworx takes full advantage of being part of the Cambridge ecosystem and is an active member of the start-up scene.
The breadth of experience, expertise and creativity within the Futureworx team, coupled with the power of the Marshall brand, has enabled them to forge a wide range of important strategic relationships with likeminded organisations offering complementary capabilities across a number of different industries.
This collaborative approach is already beginning to pay dividends and deliver some tangible examples of products and services with the potential to address some of the very real and imminent climate change challenges facing our planet.
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Marshall Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click
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