Project Manager in product development and innovation -réf:PM2019LO - Antananarivo
23/11/2019 |
Loowatt |
Contrat CDI |
Antananarivo
Loowatt SARL is an innovative sanitation company that provides sanitation for the ones who needs it the most. The service are mainly household toilets, from Loowatt designs, that enclose the waste into polymers film, then contained into barrels below the toilets. The household’s customers pay a monthly fee to receive the Loowatt service which collects the waste weekly to bring them to treatment sites where the toilets wastes are turned into fertilizer and energy.
Loowatt SARL is implementing and testing the technology developed by Loowatt Ltd based in the UK, while developing an efficient logistic network to serve up to 2000 toilets by the end of 2020.
The toilets parts are sent from abroad (foreign suppliers), and the cubicles are manufactured locally by local companies (wood and metal frame) and are assembled by the Loowatt technical team..
The Project Manager within the Innovation Team is a new role within our newly formed Innovation Team. This person will support and lead several projects within the innovation team and should be comfortable speaking with customers, our technical and non-technical staff, and interfacing with external actors including our design team in London, UK.
Responsibilities include:
Collecting customer, commercial, technical and maintenance feedback on existing Loowatt toilet designs to support future product designs and innovation
Be the first point of contact for Loowatt’s London based design team, representing the point of view and interest of Loowatt Madagascar and ensuring timely collection and sharing of information and issue resolution from the design team
Support the trial of new toilet designs in Antananarivo including conducting needs assessments, finding trial participants, conducting field surveys, managing household servicing and synthesizing and reporting results
Getting quote and negotiate with local and international suppliers and manufacturer
Control product quality on reception and propose process to ensure quality from installation to long term usage.
Report to the Design team based in London, UK about improvement required.
Manage the development of new project (cubicle&base; Economy Toilet…) with local manufacturer and the design team
The successful Candidate will have the following skills:
o -Excellent at managing project and using project management tools and IT technologies.
o -Experience in dealing with local and international suppliers
o -Be Goal orientated and have excellent analytical, problem solving, project management and communication skills
o -Knowledge of the local manufacturing capacity
o -Ideally but not required Capacity to use 3D designing software to make adjustment on sketches
o -Capacity to propose protocol for testing product and collecting usage and customer feedback
o -Good technical communication skills in Malagasy and English
o -Some knowledge of the household’s services, or sanitation would be a plus
o -A strong interest in being involved in the challenge of solving the sanitation issue for Antananarivo!
you would increase you chances of us processing your application if you also details your motivation, and how you would addressed the responsibilities of the job, in a detailed attached letter or email (in French or English).
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