Job ID: 16316
Alternate Locations: United States-North Carolina-Huntersville; United States-North Carolina-Gastonia; United States-North Carolina-Lumberton
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.
Date Posted: Aug 7, 2026
