Senior Manager Platforms

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 UDFs 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 Companys product leadership strategy.
• Identify and develop strategic intellectual property for Company.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors 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

Additional Information :

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $120000 USD - $192500 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 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.

Fortune Brands is built on industry-leading brands and innovation within the high-growth categories of water outdoors and security. The Company makes innovative products for residential and commercial environments with a growing focus on digital solutions and products that add luxury contribute to safety and enhance sustainability. To learn more visit our website at .

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fortune Brands is an equal opportunity employer. Fortune Brands evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability/handicap status marital status protected veteran status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other legally protected characteristic.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time