Senior Manager Platforms

Fortune Brands • North Olmsted, OH

8h • $120,000 - $192,500

About The Position

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. We’re focused on exciting opportunities within the home, security and commercial building markets. Our driving purpose is to elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.
At Fortune Brands, we’re building something big. We’re advancing exciting innovations in all of our products and processes. We’re delivering trust, dependability, sustainability, and style. To make it all happen, we’ve transformed our workplace into an environment where smart, ambitious people have the support to reach their fullest potential.
When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.
Explore life at Fortune Brands here.
Be responsible for the following across an entire assigned business category:
Develop and own product architecture roadmaps for platforms to meet business growth requirements for cost, quality, timing, and customer expectations.
Develop and own the financial and platform metrics for each global platform that drives sound decision-making for Company to maximize success in markets and with efficient operations.
Lead and define product scope for critical subsystems and product architectures to enable more efficient product development.
Govern the use of product specifications, subsystem interfaces, and UDF's for use in new product development.
Make strategic recommendations for new and existing architectures across the business category with a focus on enabling “useful” market variation required to drive business growth while eliminating “useless” variation.
Lead product development and supply chain activities with a focus on platforming actions: analyze, stabilize, standardize, optimize and innovate.
Analyze --> Create and use analytical tools to drive insights into component, sub-system and systems utilization across GPG platforms.
Stabilize --> Identify quality and supply chain performance gaps, quantify benefits to business, and create projects to resolve.
Standardize --> Identify opportunities and set strategies to standardize platforms and eliminating useless variation, creating sets of subsystems and interfaces that form common platforms.
Optimize --> develop new opportunities to meet current/near future internal and external requirements including customer requirements, product price, cost, quality, Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), etc.
Innovate --> create incremental new designs and concepts to meet future internal and external requirements including new features, attributes, cost, quality, and supply chain solutions.
Interface with Design to Value (DTV) and Manufacturing Process Development Teams to ensure scope and opportunities are aligned with platform architecture roadmaps.
Continuously improve the processes, skills, team, and tools necessary to achieve Company’s product leadership strategy.
Identify and develop strategic intellectual property for Company.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required; advanced degree in Engineering or MBA is preferred
• Minimum 8 years of related experience with significant product development and manufacturing exposure
• Experience with financial measures and metrics – at project level and P&L level
• Experience with manufacturing processes such as injection molding, casting, forging, fabricating, etc.; ability to cost components based on manufacturing process (cycle time, fill rate, cooling time), and assess manufacturability (i.e. gate location, tooling material, cooling system design)
• Strong strategic vision, critical thinking, and problem solving required
• Effectively work with teams and suppliers from different cultures and countries.
• Ability to influence across the organization – both within and outside of own function
• Demonstrated success managing multiple projects concurrently in a fast paced environment
• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude and problem solving

Responsibilities

• Develop and own product architecture roadmaps for platforms to meet business growth requirements for cost, quality, timing, and customer expectations.
• Develop and own the financial and platform metrics for each global platform that drives sound decision-making for Company to maximize success in markets and with efficient operations.
• Lead and define product scope for critical subsystems and product architectures to enable more efficient product development.
• Govern the use of product specifications, subsystem interfaces, and UDF's for use in new product development.
• Make strategic recommendations for new and existing architectures across the business category with a focus on enabling “useful” market variation required to drive business growth while eliminating “useless” variation.
• Lead product development and supply chain activities with a focus on platforming actions: analyze, stabilize, standardize, optimize and innovate.
• Interface with Design to Value (DTV) and Manufacturing Process Development Teams to ensure scope and opportunities are aligned with platform architecture roadmaps.
• Continuously improve the processes, skills, team, and tools necessary to achieve Company’s product leadership strategy.
• Identify and develop strategic intellectual property for Company.

Benefits

• Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay.
• A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $120,000 USD - $192,500 USD.
• Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location.
• In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.
• At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs.
• This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits, adoption benefits, and more.
• We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

What This Job Offers

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