Technology Portfolio Manager - Electronics and Digital technologies

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Summary

The Technology Portfolio Manager reports to the Director, Technology strategy and is part of the Chief Architect Office. The responsibilities include facilitating and managing early technology developments as well as identifying, capturing, documenting and communicating development and innovation in order to facilitate the transfer of applicable technologies into products and programs. The main objectives are performing market analysis, facilitating and managing technology road mapping, creating and managing internal R&D activities, collaborating with industry and universities, and identifying and capturing innovation and intellectual property generated during technology development.

Tasks

• Understand and highlight technology development needs in order to reduce risk, reduce cost, reduce mass and reduce AIT time for products and projects with an emphasis on constellations and high‑volume production.
• Conduct market assessments of latest technologies and products to inform technology development strategy.
• Establish development roadmaps for key technology thrusts based on:
  • Contributions from clients and the new business group
  • Reports and market analysis
  • Trend analysis of requirements
  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis
  • Company business objectives
  • Lessons learned from programs and existing products
• Present technology roadmaps to internal stakeholders and external customers.
• Identify new technologies and then the risk, validate, qualify and inject into products and programs
• Propose internal Research and Development (R&D) activities to develop new technologies, improve existing technologies and develop products using these technologies
• Collaborate with long‑term technology partners to ensure that their technology development remains aligned with internal needs
• Identify external funding opportunities for technology development
• Lead the development of external funding proposals, as appropriate, with support from engineering and business development managers as needed.
• Manage small to medium sized development programs and activities, internally or externally funded, adhering to program management best practices and managing allocated budget and schedule
• Build long‑term relationships with technology development partners from industry, academia and government agencies
• Contribute to the annual internal R&D plan.

Intellectual Property (IP)

• Promote technological innovation throughout the company
• Identify newly developed intellectual property and populate the intellectual property catalog accordingly
• Execute the processes associated with the intellectual property strategy
• Register patents with the help of inventors and external IP advisors.
• Participate in certain technical conferences related to the technologies
• Support bids and proposals with technical and programmatic technology inputs related to technologies

Provide expert guidance to

Engineering:

• Communicate results on latest technology development activities.
• Identification of critical cost reductions

Program Management Office:

• Guidance in the development of a program baseline

Manufacturing:

• Iden…