Sr Lead, Supply Chain Planning
Listed on 2026-08-14
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Engineering
Injection Molding, Manufacturing Engineer, Process Engineer, Quality Engineering
Career Opportunities:
Sr Lead, Supply Chain Planning (16596)
Requisition
16596
-Posted
- United States
- Hybrid
- Full-Time
- Supply Chain
- Additional Job Posting Location(s) (6)
Alternate Locations:United States-Virginia-Winchester;
United States-Kansas-Wichita;
United States-Kansas-Winfield;
United States-Ohio-Akron;
United States-Ohio-Mogadore;
United States-Tennessee-Maryville-Tennessee
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 Ingetration – Injection Molding is a central, capability-focused role responsible for driving integration and synergy of the injection molding manufacturing capability across Newell’s plants, spanning all product segments that rely on injection molding. Unlike a category-based SPI, this role integrates a manufacturing capability horizontally: traveling across plants, the SPI harmonizes molding standards, tooling and process practices, drives cross-plant synergies (common tooling standards, resins, process parameters, mold sourcing), and feeds injection molding capability intelligence back into the MDC / NPC and ERA / DFM organizations.
This is an influence-and-integration role: the SPI does not hold change-control authority, but instead aligns, recommends and coordinates to keep the injection molding capability consistent, modern and cost-effective across sites. Reporting directly to the MDC Director. The SPI acts as the connective tissue between plants, NPC design, ERA / DFM and tooling / sourcing, capturing molding synergy opportunities and ensuring that standards, technology and learnings flow across the network.
Job Duties:
- Drive synergy of the injection molding capability across plants – common tooling standards, mold-design guidelines, resins, process parameters and suppliers.
- Identify, quantify and champion molding-related synergy and cost-reduction opportunities (tooling commonality, resin harmonization, mold sourcing, scrap and cycle-time improvement).
- Harmonize injection molding standards, mold specifications and process practices across sites.
- Share and scale molding best practices, lessons learned and proven solutions across the network.
Molding Standards & Process Consistency
- Ensure injection molding standards, mold specs and process requirements are consistently understood and applied across plants – without owning change control.
- Provide injection molding technical expertise and guidance to plant teams.
- Flag molding process gaps, tooling risks and deviations to the relevant owners (plant / NPI / ERA-DFM) and support resolution.
Tooling, Resins & Technology
- Support harmonization of mold / tooling standards, resin selection and molding technology across plants.
- Promote adoption of advanced molding technology, automation and process improvements.
- Partner with toolmakers and resin suppliers on standards, feasibility and cost.
Capability Intelligence & DFM Linkage
- Capture injection molding capability intelligence (process performance, scrap, cycle time, tooling health) and feed it back into NPC design and ERA / DFM.
- Ensure new product designs leverage the network’s molding capabilities and standards (design for injection molding).
- Maintain a capability-level view of injection molding across the network.
- Support cost analyses and VAVE by surfacing molding-related commonality and synergy (tooling, resin, process).
- Partner with Cost Engineering, sourcing and the laboratory on should-cost, benchmarking and molding cost-reduction that scales across sites.
- Cross-plant injection molding synergy and commonality pipeline
- Harmonized molding standards, mold specifications and process practices
- Injection molding capability intelligence feedback to NPC / DFM
- Molding best-practice and lessons-learned playbooks
- Molding synergy /…
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