Head of Advanced Development

If you’re looking for a progressive and rewarding career and you thrive in a fast-paced, fun and team-orientated environment, then look no further!

Overview of Vax:

Our heritage-rich, expert-led business has always had the same goal: to prioritize innovation and to design easy-to-use products that seamlessly integrate into our customers' lives, offering reliable, quick solutions to cleaning homes, whatever the mess.

Vax has forged its reputation as a brand that focuses on the needs of its customers. Our culture of innovation is at the heart of everything we do and we work hard to constantly think of new ways to improve our products, ensuring that we deliver premium quality products for our customers.

We are excited to share a new role with the Advanced Development Function @ Vax. The newly created Head of Advanced Development will lead the function and manage the Advanced Development team in the UK day to day. The role is accountable for the delivery and execution of the Advanced Development Roadmap, translating direction set by the Director of Global Advanced Development into action. It owns prioritisation, pace, and quality of output, ensuring advanced concepts progress efficiently toward decision-ready outcomes.

The Head of Advanced Development will be the hands-on driver of execution within Advanced Development, responsible for turning strategy and intent into delivered outcomes through strong day to day leadership. This exciting new role will have major influence over the next generation of Vax products coming to market.

This exciting new role will cover the following -

• Own the day-to-day execution of the Advanced Development activity across the dry floorcare portfolio.

The role is suitable for an experienced Advanced Development specialist who is looking to further their career in a consumer product, fast paced business. We are looking for experience in -

• Extensive experience in product development within consumer products, including significant time in advanced or early -stage development (innovation).
• Experience leading multi -disciplinary engineering teams, including design, mechanical and analytical engineering disciplines .
• Strong system level engineering background with exposure across multiple product development cycles.
• Experience working with or leading teams applying advanced analytical approaches such as CFD, NVH, FEA and data driven or machine learning based approaches.
• Experience owning or shaping development roadmaps in partnership with Product Management and Insights teams.
• Experience managing trade -offs across time, cost, spec, quality and regulatory requirements.
• Working knowledge of global regulations and standards relevant to consumer products, with experience considering impact in early technology development.
• Collaborative leader with strong sense of ownership, accountability and platform level thinking.

Experience working across global, multi -site organisations.

Background in floorcare, consumer electronics, or similarly complex product categories is desirable.

If you are looking for the next step in your career and want to really impact a business then please do not hesitate to apply!

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Vax is made up of people who have a shared understanding of our mission and vision. Our values define who we are and what we stand for;

Trust – We’re experts and everything we do is based on brilliant knowledge.

Honesty – Our commitment to doing the right means we are always open and transparent.

Resilience – For decades, we have embraced change and been agile in what we do. We aren’t easily discouraged.

Innovation – We’re curious and explore opportunities, innovating to benefit our customers and business.

Valued – We are better when each of us feels included and respected for who we are and what we contribute.

Energy – We are positive thinkers, excited about what we do.