Manager, Market Development & Planning Strategy & Operations

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Manager, Market Development & Planning Strategy & Operations - Home (16661)

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.

Position Summary

The Manager, Market Development & Planning
- Strategy & Operations
- Home is a strategic and operational partner to the VP of MD&P
- Home and the broader Home MD&P team. The role translates priorities into clear operating plans, co-develops practical processes and deliverables with functional leads, and leads selected cross-functional work streams through implementation and adoption.

The role is accountable for the operating mechanics and integration of Home MD&P, while specialist content remains with business-facing MD&P, Category Development, Revenue Growth Management, Omnichannel, Sales, Brand, Finance, and Supply Chain. Working with functional leads, the Manager helps define processes, standards, tools, templates, decision forums, and performance routines while functional leaders retain ownership of content, assumptions, recommendations, and functional outcomes.

This is a hybrid Manager role with broader strategic exposure than a traditional project-management position. The Manager contributes to long-range planning, fact-based analysis, process improvement, capability building, and high-priority initiatives that improve how Home MD&P plans, decides, communicates, and executes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Thought Partnership & Long-Range Planning

Serve as a strategic and operational partner to the VP of MD&P
- Home, helping frame priorities, organize decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and prepare fact-based recommendations.

Support development of the Home MD&P functional strategy, annual objectives, capability priorities, and improvement agenda with the VP of MD&P and functional leads.

Coordinate functional inputs into long-range strategy and annual planning, ensuring assumptions, deliverables, dependencies, and decisions are connected and delivered on time.

Develop analyses, scenarios, decision frameworks, and leadership materials for cross-functional issues spanning brands, categories, channels, customers, or MD&P capabilities.

Identify emerging organizational needs and help define the appropriate owner, governance approach, and work plan.

2. MD&P Operating System, Processes & Governance

Manage assigned elements of the Home MD&P operating calendar and meeting architecture, ensuring milestones, dependencies, decisions, and handoffs are visible and sequenced.

Co-develop common protocols, tools, templates, standards, and decision forums with functional leads to improve quality, consistency, speed, and transparency.

Help clarify roles, decision rights, and handoffs across MD&P and partner functions; document practical RACI and workflow solutions.

Maintain visibility to major initiatives, resource demands, and organizational priorities to support prioritization and capacity discussions.

Operate comfortably between strategic work and detailed execution while protecting functional ownership.

3. Business Planning, Performance & Decision Support

Coordinate assigned Home annual planning work streams, including timelines, templates, input requirements, leadership checkpoints, and decision logs.

Manage assigned components of Risk & Opportunity governance, including documentation, action tracking, escalation, and closure…