Sr. Manager of Advanced Development

Sr. Manager of Advanced Development Division Advanced Development Primary Work Location Anderson, SC Job type Regular Time type Full time Job Post From 2026-03-30 Job Details

Job Description Job Description:

Sr. Manager of Advanced Development (ANDERSON,SC) Team Overview Floorcare's US Advanced Development is responsible for shaping the future of the wet floorcare product technology portfolio by working from identified market opportunities and user needs to define new product concepts, technologies, and system architectures. The team operates upstream of New Product Development, focusing on first principles thinking, rapid learning and early de-risking of innovations. The Advanced Development team works in close partnership with Product Management and Consumer Insights to ensure development activity is market led and strategically aligned. The team also collaborates at a global level across the wider TTI group. This includes peer teams in the UK, maximizing platform leverage, sharing technologies, and creating architectural coherence in the floorcare range. The Sr. Manager of Advanced Development will lead the US function 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. Owning prioritization, pace, and quality of output, ensuring advanced concepts progress efficiently towards decision-ready outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

Own the day to day execution of Advanced Development activity across the wet floorcare portfolio. Translate strategic direction into clear plans, priorities, and action for the Advanced Development team. Lead and Manage the Advanced Development team on a day to day basis, setting priorities, allocating work and maintaining pace. Deliver the advanced development roadmap in collaboration with Product Management and Consumer Insights. Translate market opportunities into clear development briefs, hypotheses, and learning objectives. Identify, generate, and evaluate technology options to address defined market needs. Drive collaboration between Advanced Development, Industrial Design and Electrical Engineering to synthesize concepts which create compelling product experiences. Provide strong system level and architectural direction without owning the detailed execution. Lead a multi-disciplinary team spanning mechanical, design engineering, analytical and subject matter experts (CFD & NVH). Ensure appropriate use of analysis and simulations (CFD, NVH, FEA, Data led methodology) to generate rapid insights and enhance delivery speed. Proactively manage and communicate tradeoffs across performance, cost, timing, quality and regulatory considerations. Maintain awareness of global regulations and emerging standards, providing recommendations on potential impact to future projects and technologies. Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly through concise, executive ready updates. Create compelling narratives and visualizations that support stakeholder alignment and decision making. Mentor and develop engineers to operate with greater ownership, pace and entrepreneurial mindsets. Collaborate globally across dry and wet floorcare teams and the broader group to maximize platform and technology leverage. Support the structured transition of mature concepts into New Product Development.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in engineering (Mechanical or Aerospace) or a related engineering field, Product design etc. 7+ Years experience in product development within consumer products, including significant time in advanced or early-stage development (innovation). 3+ Years 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. Strong track record of translating ambiguity into structured recommendations and decision ready proposals. Experience managing tradeoffs 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. Proven ability to influence senior and executive level stakeholders through clear, concise and compelling communication. Strong storytelling capability, able to bring concepts and strategies to life while distilling complexity into exec friendly updates. Clear bias toward action, learning and momentum, balanced with sound engineering judgement. Confident decision maker in ambiguous environments, able to progress work with incomplete information. Natural conceptual thinker who connects the dots between market opportunities, technology possibility and product experience. Strong instinct for design quality alongside engineering rigor. Collaborative leader with strong sense of ownership, accountability and platform level thinking. Experience working across global, multi-site organizations. Background in floorcare, consumer electronics, or similarly complex product categories is desirable. Categories

FLOOR CARE

We are the largest floor care business in North America, owning three of the biggest names in floor care. These iconic brands have a rich history and deep roots in the American Floor Care industry. We are proud to continue to build the legacy of these brands each day, at TTI Floor Care

• North America, located in Charlotte, NC since 2016.

Hoover:

We acquired this marquee brand in 2007, but Hoover's history reaches back more than 100 years and traces a path to the very invention of the vacuum itself. In 1907, janitor Murray Spangler saw a problem that needed fixing: In the course of his daily work, he encountered dust that triggered asthma attacks. Working at night, Spangler devised a "suction sweeper" to pull dust and dirt out of the air and off the ground. W. H. Hoover bought Spangler's patent in 1908, and began selling the country's first sweepers to the public. It was the beginning of more than a century of innovations, from our famous beater bar to disposable paper vacuum bags, vacuum cleaner headlights and self-propelling technology and even the side-mounted hose. Today, Hoover continues to build on its history of innovation and creating effortless cleaning solutions.

Dirt Devil/Royal:

TTI purchased the Royal and Dirt Devil lines in 2002

• and acquired a company with an esteemed path through floor care history. In 1905, the P. A. Geier Company
• creator of the Royal line of home cleaners
• was founded in Cleveland, Ohio.

By 1937 the company was producing the world's first hand-held vacuum, the Royal Prince. It was a sign of things to come. In 1953, ownership of the P. A. Geier Company changed hands, and the company was renamed Royal Appliance Manufacturing to better highlight its marquee line of trademarked machines. Dirt Devil joined the Royal family in 1981 and debuted its runaway best-seller, the Hand Vac, in 1984. More than 23 million hand vacs have been sold since its inception. Dirt Devil makes some of the most convenient, affordable home cleaning products on the market today.

Oreck:

Oreck joined the TTI family in 2013. One of America's most beloved vacuum brands, with a fiercely loyal base of customers, Oreck produces lightweight, powerful, premium cleaners. Oreck was founded by American entrepreneur David Oreck in 1963. He had an obvious yet radical idea: design a lightweight yet powerful vacuum to relieve the drudgery felt by hotel housekeepers using the much heavier models then available to them. The idea proved so successful that today more than 50,000 hotels throughout the world use commercial-grade Oreck vacuums. Naturally, hotel staff wanted to buy these vastly improved vacuum cleaners for their own use at home. And so, his original idea evolved: Oreck Corporation began selling its unique products to residential consumers as well. Oreck is committed to those same values and is a leader in quality and superior customer care.