Product Development manager – Press Hardening Steel

ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest steel producer. We use the most innovative technologies to create the steels tomorrow’s world will be made of. Every day over 125,000 of our talented people, located in over 60 countries, push the boundaries of digitalization, and use advanced technologies to create a stronger, faster, and smarter world. To help make this possible, they know they can depend on the support and training that a company of our scope and scale can provide.

Comprising 1,650 researchers spread across 14 Research Centres around the world, our Global R&D team aims to continuously improve the quality of steel and its manufacturing processes. This involves investigating and developing disruptive technologies, reducing the carbon footprint of steel, and optimizing costs while maintaining uncompromising quality. The team's strong multicultural diversity, with over 30 nationalities, offers international experience and makes it possible to meet global needs.

Your role

When you join our team, you’ll become a key contributor to Global R&D Product Development group, helping to shape the future of steel for Automotive. As part of this dynamic team, you'll have the opportunity to pilot projects and product development, explore new ideas, understand the market needs, and turn advanced research into real, high-performing products matching customers’ needs. You will act as a key interface between the R&D labs, European customers, and the Global PHS development team.

As Product Development manager – Press Hardening Steel, your role and responsibility will be:

Management of New Product Development:

• To pilot R&D projects in the field Press Hardening Steels development for Automotive
• Ensure a good coordination between different ArcelorMittal Global R&D Labs 
• Translate business needs into R&D projects and ensure R&D objectives are well aligned with stakeholders expectations 
• Contribute to the technical and economic analysis of the projects, assessment of value creation
• Make sure product conception is well completed on time, follow industrialization with pilot plant
• Prepare new product industrialization together with the plants
• Prepare new product deployment together with the commercial organization
• Managing interfaces with the labs and plants
• Assist in preparing technical communication kits
• Ensure product deployments and customer interaction in Europe

Your profile

• You hold a Master’s degree or a PhD in Materials Science or related field.
• You have a first experience as a materials engineer in an R&D environment.
• Expertise in Steel properties, processing, know-how of automotive industry is an advantage.
• You have the capacity of managing a large portfolio of projects spread in different labs with efficiency and focus.
• You are open to travel. 
• You are fluent in English and French (spoken and written).

According to ArcelorMittal Global R&D values:

• You agree to comply with health and safety rules.
• You are respectful, transparent, honest, and empathetic in your relationships. You honor your word and your commitments to others.
• You agree to behave consistently with the highest level of integrity.
• You strive to question your practices. with high expectations of yourself and others, you strive for a high level of quality and reliability in everything you do.
• You recognize that diversity, varied skills, and fresh ideas make a group exponentially better in the pursuit of a common goal.
• You know that learning changes minds and lives, so you are committed to learning throughout your professional career and continually achieving the skills required and essential to your success.
• You are open to ideas that challenge conventions and stimulate innovation.

Join us and you will see that your work will help create renewable energy, impact major industries and boost economies. At ArcelorMittal, we'll help you create your world.

Attractive remuneration with stimulating career prospects in which eminent scientists and engineers evolve in a multicultural environment.