NPD Sourcing Project Manager

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. We’re focused on exciting opportunities within the home, security and commercial building markets. Our driving purpose is to elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

At Fortune Brands, we’re building something big. We’re advancing exciting innovations in all of our products and processes. We’re delivering trust, dependability, sustainability, and style. To make it all happen, we’ve transformed our workplace into an environment where smart, ambitious people have the support to reach their fullest potential.

When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

As a Global Sourcing NPD Project Manager, you will be aligned with one or more of our internal business units – Water, Security, or Outdoors. You will represent, lead and be responsible for the strategic sourcing function deliverables for new product development, working closely in an NPD stage-gate process with engineering, product management, supplier quality, manufacturing, and external suppliers for multiple new product programs.

You will be working with strategic sourcing category leaders to understand key strategic suppliers and create risk mitigation plans for your NPD programs. In this role, you will manage all aspects of NPD Sourcing to deliver direct material for new products as well as supplier selection in collaboration with category leaders, early supplier involvement, project management and the procurement of tools, prototype and production parts, launch volumes, timelines through launch and transitioning the program to sustaining production management.

This position will guide supplier development projects globally using Fortune Brands product development stage gate process and will also support the development of organizational processes to improve program execution, speed, and effectiveness. Manage the performance for assigned NPD programs from a Supply Sourcing and Supplier Development perspective.

This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule.

• Facilitate completing supply chain product development stage gate deliverables and keep project team updated with supply chain statuses.
• Ensure NPD milestones and requirements are understood, monitored, and completed for quality, cost and schedule targets.
• Ensure design compatibility with supplier capabilities and approval including design reviews and supplier assessment work.
• Negotiate with internal and external suppliers, solve problems, develop win-win resolutions, and develop positive relations.
• Lead and support cross-functional teams in developing solutions to complex business and technical problems and issues related to or impacting the supply base.
• Proactively engage with strategic suppliers in Early Supplier Involvement initiatives and coordinate cross functional team activities related to specification development, technical and design for manufacturability reviews, part validation, and delivered part quality.
• Support project team in executing supplier assessments, part qualification & approval process.
• Support project team in defining the supply chain capital tooling requirements.
• Support project / material control team in defining inventory model on purchased parts.

• 3-5 years of work-related experience
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in a cross functional supply/new product development team environment (or related field)
• Manufacturing sourcing experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred; relevant work experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Experience in stage-gate project management, preferably in a global manufacturing company
• Experience working in a major ERP environment. SAP or Oracle…