Tony Allison

Product Development Manager @Designled Products Ltd, A Forvia Faurecia Company

Edinburgh, GB

Responsible for ensuring customer needs are met through design and technical development of concepts & products. Work with the senior team to translate market trends into future product design and technical development strategy and ensure plans and capabilities are within the team to achieve the strategy. Interface with customers’ design and technical teams, exploring distinct use cases to promote our USPs, protecting value and driving product requirements. Using my broad mechanical and electrical engineering and manufacturing knowledge to oversee a robust design process that can deliver successful concepts through serial production. Build and lead a team of designers and innovators to develop products and new technology demonstrators in response to inputs from market trends and customers in the global market. Collaborate with the operations team to ensure projects are focused on quality and then successfully completed on time & budget.Inspire, mentor and manage design and engineering team at all levels, ensuring training and development strategy is implemented to retain and develop talent.

The University of Edinburgh

Executive Leadership Programme, Strategy & leadership

University of Dundee

Ipd, Engineering, design, product design

University of Dundee

IPD, product design, engineering, business