Sr. Lead, Segment Product Integration

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