Sr. Lead, Segment Product Integration

Newell Brands; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Newell Brands in the United States seeks a Sr. Lead, Segment Product Integration — Kitchen (H&C) to drive cross-plant product integration and synergies across our Kitchen category.

The role ensures standards, specifications and best practices are consistently applied while identifying shared components and platforms across sites. Reporting to MDC Director initially, the SPI aligns NPC product development with ERA/NPI manufacturing teams, acts as category integrator, and influences decisions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Product, Industrial or related) and hands-on product development experience.
• Experience in product development, industrialization or product engineering for consumer products.
• Strong understanding of product design, manufacturing processes and lifecycle.
• Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across teams without direct authority.
• Advanced English (written and spoken).
• Willingness to travel extensively across plants.

Responsibilities

• Drive cross-plant product integration and synergy across Kitchen category.
• Identify and champion cost-reduction opportunities and shared components.
• Harmonize designs, specifications, and standards across plants.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across the network.
• Provide category guidance to plant teams and flag risks.
• Capture lifecycle intelligence and feed insights to NPC and ERA/NPI teams.

Skills

Influence & collaboration

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Advanced English

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Job ID: 16316

Alternate Locations: United States-North Carolina-Huntersville; United States-North Carolina-Gastonia; United States-North Carolina-Lumberton

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® – and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact—supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day.

Job Summary:

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.

Job Duties:

Cross-Plant Product Integration & Synergy

• 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.

Product Standards & Consistency

• 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.

Product Lifecycle Intelligence

• 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.

Category Coordination & Influence

• 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.

Cost & VAVE Synergy Support

• 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.

Key Deliverables:

• Cross-plant synergy and commonality opportunity pipeline (Kitchen / H&C)
• Harmonized product standards and specifications across plants
• Product lifecycle intelligence feedback to NPC
• Best-practice and lessons-learned playbooks for the category
• Category synergy / cost-reduction results (influenced across the network)

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong influence, collaboration and stakeholder management across sites and cultures.
• Ability to see the big picture across a category and connect the dots between plants.
• Strong product and manufacturing acumen for the category.
• Comfortable operating without formal authority — leading through expertise and relationships.
• Self-directed and mobile, comfortable working across multiple locations.
• Analytical and cost-aware, with strong problem-solving skills.

Travel:

• Extensive travel across plants. It is a core requirement of this role.

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.