CTO to Bellman & Symfon Group AB

About the company:

Bellman & Symfon (BSAB) is a Swedish company founded in 1989 and located in Sisjön, Gothenburg. The company helps people with hearing loss to lead a full and active life by developing first class hearing products. The BSAB product portfolio ranges from assistive listening products to complete home notification systems. BSAB are world renown for their clean Scandinavian design, high reliability and ease-of-use.

About the position:

My customer, BSAB, is now looking for a CTO that will manage the Technical department and be a part of the management team. This responsibility includes ensuring that BSAB has outstanding technical solutions and products within decided R&D cost and time frames. This in order to make sure that BSAB in a unique way can help people with functional problems to a better life. You will have personnel, budget and project responsibility and report to the CEO.

Main areas of responsibility:

- Responsible for stimulating the process of new product ideas, systemize and document them and suggest priorities for technical pre-studies.
- Responsible for support Business Unit managers in conducting technical pre-studies and, when applicable, in making feasibility studies.
- Responsible for Supporting Business Unit managers with the technical documentation needed to present an accurate and reliable investment proposal to CEO / Board of Directors.
- Responsible for suggesting the optimized/correct priorities seen from a holistic perspective to CEO and the Business Unit managers.
- Responsible for managing the R&D projects and the R&D team. Ensure that the R&D process is consciously improved.
- Responsible for managing and developing the production capacity, mainly in Asia, to ensure that BSAB will have the right partners from a technical, commercial and ethical perspective.
- Responsible for the Production which includes managing and developing the production capacity in mainly in Asia to ensure that BSAB have the right partners from a technical, commercial and ethical perspective.
- Managing the production quality system and inspections.
- Responsible for technical after sales service.
- Ensure that the Technical organization is correctly managed and staffed in terms of number of staff as well as their competence, experience, motivation, commitment etc.

Working experience:

10+ years of experience from working as an engineer (HW and SW), including:

- Experience from working closely with the market and customers to understand and suggest product & system requirements.
- Experience from benchmarking and evaluating various technologies of interest and evaluation of competitor products.
- 5+ years of extensive and documented successful experience from Project management of R&D projects (electronic consumer products or medical devices with embedded software).
- 5+ years of extensive and documented successful experience from managing a Technical team.

As a person you:

- Love technology and want to improve peoples? quality of life by developing it.
- Have good leadership skills, i.e. the ability to motivate employees and ensure agreed performance of assignments and projects.
- Have an outstanding personal engagement and sense of responsibility.Are innovative and able to think outside the box
- Are analytical and structured and know how to manage complex situations in order to achieve the best possible outcome.

Education:

M.Sc.E.E. or similar.

Languages:

Fluent in Swedish and English