Senior Manager, Global Sourcing NPD

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Senior Manager, Global Sourcing – New Product Development (NPD) provides strategic, portfolio level leadership for sourcing and supplier development activities supporting new product programs across all business units within Fortune Brands (Water, Security, Outdoors). This role is accountable for ensuring that sourcing execution within the NPD stage gate process delivers competitive cost, robust supply, high quality, and launch readiness for all new products.

This role partners closely with Engineering, Product Management, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing, Category Management, and external suppliers to ensure early supplier involvement, risk mitigation, and scalable supply solutions throughout the product lifecycle. This position plays a key role in process improvement, capability building, and strategic supplier engagement to improve speed, predictability, and effectiveness of NPD execution globally.

Location: This role is eligible for a hybrid work schedule, reporting into the Deerfield HQ 3x per week (Tues-Thurs) with the option to work remotely on Monday & Friday.

• Own the Global Sourcing NPD portfolio across assigned business units, ensuring alignment with business strategy, category strategies, and innovation roadmaps.
• Guide prioritization and resource allocation across multiple NPD programs, balancing risk, cost, capacity, and time to market.
• Provide executive level visibility into sourcing readiness, risks, and performance for all major NPD initiatives.

• Ensure sourcing deliverables are consistently defined, understood, and completed for each stage gate milestone.
• Establish and enforce standard expectations for sourcing participation in phase gate reviews, including supplier selection, cost models, tooling readiness, and launch capacity.
• Proactively identify and escalation sourcing or supplier risks that may impact quality, cost, or schedule.

• Directly manage and develop Global Sourcing NPD Project Managers, including coaching on cross functional leadership, negotiation, and complex problem solving.
• Set performance expectations, conduct reviews, and build sourcing program management capability across the team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Partner with Strategic Sourcing Category Leaders to align NPD programs with long term supplier strategies.
• Ensure strong Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) across all NPD programs, including DFM/DFA reviews, technical collaboration, and capacity planning.
• Provide senior level leadership in supplier negotiations, conflict resolution, and escalation management.

• Serve as the senior sourcing interface to Engineering, Product Management, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing, and Operations leadership during NPD.
• Lead and support cross functional teams in developing solutions to complex business, technical, and supply base challenges.
• Ensure smooth transition from NPD…