Lead Engineer Manager - Design-to-Value (DTV)

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 .

Fortune Brands is hiring for a Lead Engineer Manager to join our Design-to-Value (DtV) team as a core pillar. Location: This Lead Engineer Manager will work in a hybrid model out of our Deerfield, IL-HQ with remote days being Mondays and Fridays. This position reports into the Product Development Design-to-Value group and is responsible for identifying, assessing, and generating new product opportunities from an engineering, design, sourcing and manufacturing perspective. The Design-to-Value approach integrates consumer, marketplace, design, and cost insights to deliver the ideal consumer experience while unlocking significant margin improvement. This role is a member of an empowered, high performing team that focuses on driving meaningful change across the company by redefining the most strategic product lines.

Identify and develop Design-to-Value opportunities: In partnership with Product Manager, lead the technical analysis of market, competitive landscape and enterprise-wide product development efforts to identify optimal areas to generate value creation and cost reductions that will drive profitability. Drive profitability for current product offerings using broad business acumen and in-depth understanding of Fortune Brands Innovations product development processes. Lead engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, and design team members in collaboration with the Design-to-Value team to identify and procure the relevant competitive set of products and then generate insights and opportunities through ideation, teardowns, clean sheets, prototyping, and other analyses. Manage and run all product-related ideation, teardown, and design-for-manufacturing-and-assembly assessments with the full cross-functional team. Identify relevant metrics and test own and competitor products against metrics to assess. Support the Insights Leader by overseeing the readiness of the products to be tested and provide technical feasibility guidance for surveys. Provide direction and manage supplier involvement and collaboration and all Design-to-Value related clean sheet activity with next generation sourcing team. Support and execute various analyses (portfolio, spend, etc.) in collaboration with the Design-to-Value analyst to identify trends and opportunities. Assess and facilitate the implementation of ideas: Lead cross-functional teams (e.g. manufacturing, platforming, sourcing, design, category management) to assess ideas for feasibility, cost out and value add potential; facilitate business unit buy-in. Develop and deliver communication to the Steering Committee and other stakeholders on ideas, analyses, priorities, and impact. Support the transfer of approved projects to project teams for execution