Manager, Product Development Systems

Fortune Brands • Deerfield, IL

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About The Position

The Manager of Product Development & Engineering Systems is responsible for executing the strategic vision and providing technical leadership for Global Product Development & Engineering systems and associated processes. They will lead the implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of systems and process capability required to reach the new product portion of GPG growth targets.
The scope of work includes PPM and CAD/engineering technology/SAP BPC platforms and the associated infrastructure. Through a combination of targeted technology utilization, greater system integration, and process improvements, Global Product Development & Engineering will realize substantial improvements in speed, efficiency and effectiveness across core systems and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences or related field is required.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in engineering and/or product development to include 4 years leading the support and implementation of enterprise-level PPM systems in a distributed global organization is required.
• Expert level knowledge and hands-on configuration experience of, MS Project online, SharePoint online, SQL Server, required.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform tools (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI etc.) is required.
• Experience in merging data from SAP R3 ERP platform with MS Project Online/SQL Server data, and Excel based financial models within QlikView analytics software required.
• Experience in the design and development of insightful portfolio dashboards and analytics; in depth knowledge of project ROI financial metric relationships and interdependencies required.
• Ability to effectively manage change and complex organizational projects, navigate and influence others in a matrixed environment (management experience preferred), deliver tough messages and resolve conflict.
• Demonstrated success assessing and managing risk in complex and ambiguous situations.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, technical writing experience, and procedure / instruction writing experience.
• High level of communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with people at all levels and functions of the organization.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to approximately 10% of the time, both domestically and internationally

Nice To Haves

• Experience with other Microsoft Cloud Technologies like Azure Services is a huge plus.
• Experience within engineering systems (3DX/SolidWorks), change control processes connected to a distributed manufacturing environment, linking engineering PLM systems with manufacturing ERP systems is a plus. Excellent technology troubleshooting skills, and ability to learn new tools, skills, and environments quickly.
• management experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of portfolio management, project management, and engineering system improvements that drive greater efficiencies, and leverage our global scale to achieve industry-leading results, including improvements to eliminate waste, improve engineering productivity, and incremental changes to continuously improve speed to market.
• Lead Global Product Development & Engineering in determining what portfolio management, project management, and engineering process improvements are required to drive the achievement of BU strategic and business objectives. Proactively identify the impact of potential process changes, integrate new initiatives with existing processes, and ensure that all processes are consistent and fit together.
• Lead development and execution of cross-functional system improvements (SAP BPC), as it applies to product Development related organizations.
• Deliver actionable insights based upon key portfolio metric trends, and accountable for assuring global process discipline. Lead the creation and implementation of reports, dashboards and other analytics that will help the GPD organization make insightful decisions about people, processes, and projects.
• Facilitate and guide the strategic decision-making processes by defining, monitoring, and reporting key metrics; continue to evolve key metrics as business strategies and objectives evolve. Lead the generation of solutions to complex business problems by mining data and reports to yield relevant, actionable insights.
• Responsible for technical leadership within engineering systems and engineering change control to seamlessly convey product engineering information into manufacturing and suppliers.
• In collaboration with IT, Business Units and Manufacturing Operations, establish the future looking system technology roadmap to enable necessary global integration across GPG. Provide technical subject-matter-expertise in the evaluation technology changes that may advance capability.
• Lead the development, improvement and implementation of global system standards, procedures, and best-practice across Global Product Development & Engineering.
• Work with IT and established third party software vendors to communicate, test and deploy necessary configuration changes to software (upgrades). Provide software implementation and support, including, but not limited to, MS Project Online , SharePoint, QlikView, SQL, SAP, BPC, Jira, Altium, Ansys, FloEFD, and others.
• Provide necessary change management documentation to IT when change or maintenance is needed in software tools to support Global Product Development & Engineering processes

Benefits

• employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.
• robust health plans
• a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution
• product discounts
• flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy)
• inclusive fertility / adoption benefits
• Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees