Job Description

The Prospect:

The role of the Product Development Engineering Manager is built upon demonstrating a high level of business/role acumen and assuming responsibility for end-to-end ownership of their roles while serving our customers. This is a high growth, high visibility role with the prospect to have frequent communication with senior management.

What Your Impact Will Be:
Managing and Training employees (30%)
Managing a team of five to six employees, providing day-to-day guidance, support, and performance feedback
Acting as the team’s Mentor, driving adoption of digital tools and best practices across the group
Supporting employee development through onboarding, training, and regular coaching conversations
Establishing Mattel Engineering Footprint in India (25%)
Drive a positive culture within the Mattel India engineering team
Actively work on establishing and improving the engagement of the India based team
Establish an internship program through local universities to foster regional awareness and growth within the department
Ensuring scheduled deadlines are met (15%)
Working with India based Manufacturing Vendors to maintain back-end schedule commitments and on time production starts
Attending in office meetings in Asia as needed (CR, Debug,



Value Engineering, etc)
Evening meetings with North America, often multiple times per week as needed to align with management and global brand team
Optimizing toy designs for manufacturing (10%)
Reviewing upfront toy designs for manufacturability and working with the tooling vendor or engineering teams to optimize for India Manufacturing
Making modifications to existing multi-year items to increase consumer experience, improve star ratings, and/or reduce cost
Optimizing product cost (5%)
Collaborating with our cross-functional teams and refining costs
Working with Asia and North America counterparts, in live VC’s, to brainstorm multiple cost scenarios and reductions
Participating in shop floor Kaizen’s to cost reduce items
Ensuring adherence to product quality and safety regulations (5%)
Working with local manufacturing teams to ensure ongoing product quality is maintained throughout the product lifecycle
Routinely checking in with manufacturing vendors to ensure reliable and repeatable product assembly meeting Mattel ongoing quality expectations.
Overseeing the implementation and execution of corrective actions to existing product

📌 Manager Product Development Engineer Belagavi
🏢 Mattel
📍 Belagavi