Lead Engineer Manager - Design-to-Value (DTV)

Fortune Brands•Deerfield, IL

3h•$90,000 - $143,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Fortune Brands is hiring for a Lead Engineer Manager to join our Design-to-Value (DtV) team as a core pillar. This Lead Engineer Manager will work in a hybrid model out of our Deerfield, IL-HQ with remote days being Mondays and Fridays. This position reports into the Product Development Design-to-Value group and is responsible for identifying, assessing, and generating new product opportunities from an engineering, design, sourcing and manufacturing perspective. The Design-to-Value approach integrates consumer, marketplace, design, and cost insights to deliver the ideal consumer experience while unlocking significant margin improvement. This role is a member of an empowered, high performing team that focuses on driving meaningful change across the company by redefining the most strategic product lines.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required
Minimum of 10 years of relevant engineering experience is required
Demonstrated experience leading projects with accountability for results on cross-functional teams
Proven experience looking at cost break down of product components and true understanding of product development financials
Demonstrated experience influencing and collaborating with team members
Strong analytic skills with an emphasis on critical thinking, root cause analysis, and problem solving required
Strong communication and presentation skills
Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for ideas
Demonstrated tenacity; i.e. experience trying multiple approaches to get to the right answer

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree is preferred
experience in product development for consumer products is preferred
Experience with design thinking and/or business case development a plus

Responsibilities

In partnership with Product Manager, lead the technical analysis of market, competitive landscape and enterprise-wide product development efforts to identify optimal areas to generate value creation and cost reductions that will drive profitability.
Drive profitability for current product offerings using broad business acumen and in-depth understanding of Fortune Brands Innovations product development processes.
Lead engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, and design team members in collaboration with the Design-to-Value team to identify and procure the relevant competitive set of products and then generate insights and opportunities through ideation, teardowns, clean sheets, prototyping, and other analyses.
Manage and run all product-related ideation, teardown, and design-for-manufacturing-and-assembly assessments with the full cross-functional team.
Identify relevant metrics and test own and competitor products against metrics to assess.
Support the Insights Leader by overseeing the readiness of the products to be tested and provide technical feasibility guidance for surveys.
Provide direction and manage supplier involvement and collaboration and all Design-to-Value related clean sheet activity with next generation sourcing team.
Support and execute various analyses (portfolio, spend, etc.) in collaboration with the Design-to-Value analyst to identify trends and opportunities.
Lead cross-functional teams (e.g. manufacturing, platforming, sourcing, design, category management) to assess ideas for feasibility, cost out and value add potential; facilitate business unit buy-in.
Develop and deliver communication to the Steering Committee and other stakeholders on ideas, analyses, priorities, and impact.
Support the transfer of approved projects to project teams for execution and provide follow-up support as needed to ensure challenges are overcome and full value is achieved.