Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Newell Brands is a global consumer products company with a portfolio of well-known brands. The Sr. Lead, Segment Product Integration – Kitchen (H&C) drives product integration, standards alignment, and synergy across manufacturing plants, while coordinating with product development and manufacturing teams. The role identifies cost-reduction opportunities, shares best practices, and feeds product lifecycle insights into future product and platform decisions.
Responsibilities
- Drive product synergy across plants within the Kitchen (H&C) category – commonality, platforms, shared components, materials and suppliers
- Identify, quantify and champion synergy and cost-reduction opportunities across sites
- Harmonize product designs, specifications and standards across plants to reduce duplication and complexity
- Share and scale best practices, lessons learned and proven product solutions across the network
- Ensure product standards, specifications and requirements are consistently understood and applied across plants – without owning change control
- Provide category product expertise and guidance to plant teams
- Flag deviations, gaps and risks to the relevant owners (NPC / NPI / plant) and support resolution
- Capture product lifecycle intelligence (field performance, quality, cost and manufacturing learnings) and feed it back into NPC product development
- Maintain a category-level view of the product portfolio across the network
- Inform future product creation and platform decisions with cross-plant insights
- Act as the category integrator across plants, NPC, NPI and ERA / DFM – coordinating and aligning rather than directing
- Build consensus and influence decisions without formal change-control authority
- Facilitate cross-plant forums, reviews and knowledge-sharing for the category
- Support cost analyses and VAVE by surfacing cross-plant commonality and synergy opportunities
- Partner with Cost Engineering, sourcing and the laboratory on should-cost, benchmarking and cost-reduction ideas that scale across sites
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Product, Industrial or related)
- Experience in product development, industrialization or product engineering for consumer products, ideally kitchen / home appliances
- Strong understanding of product design, manufacturing processes and the product lifecycle
- Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across teams without direct authority
- Advanced English (written and spoken)
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively across plants
- Strong influence, collaboration and stakeholder management across sites and cultures
- Ability to see the big picture across a category and connect the dots between plants
- Strong product and manufacturing acumen for the category
- Comfortable operating without formal authority – leading through expertise and relationships
- Self-directed and mobile, comfortable working across multiple locations
- Analytical and cost-aware, with strong problem-solving skills
- Extensive travel across plants. It is a core requirement of this role
- Experience working across multiple plants, sites or regions
- Kitchen / small-appliance category experience (blenders, mixers, air fryers, coffee makers and similar)
- Knowledge of DFM, VAVE, cost engineering and platform / commonality strategies
- Lean Six Sigma and/or project management background
- Spanish and/or Portuguese
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