Sr. Lead, Segment Product Integration
About The Position
The Sr. Lead, Segment Product Integration – Kitchen (H&C) is a central, category-focused role responsible for driving product integration and synergy across Newell’s manufacturing plants for the Kitchen / Home & Commercial category. Traveling across plants, the SPI ensures that product standards, specifications and best practices are consistently applied, identifies and drives cross-plant synergies (commonality, platforms, shared components and suppliers), and feeds product lifecycle intelligence back into the MDC / NPC organization. This is an influence-and-integration role: the SPI does not hold change-control authority, but instead aligns, recommends and coordinates to keep the category coherent, consistent and cost-effective across sites. Reporting in Phase I directly to the MDC Director – and evolving to report to a Sr. Global Manager, SPI as the function matures – the SPI acts as the connective tissue between plants, NPC product development and the ERA / NPI manufacturing teams, capturing synergy opportunities and ensuring that standards and learnings flow across the network.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
