Lead Engineer Manager - Design-to-Value; DTV

Position: Lead Engineer Manager - Design-to-Value (DTV)
Job Description

Fortune Brands is hiring for a Lead Engineer Manager to join our Design-to-Value (DtV) team as a core pillar.

Location:

This Lead Engineer Manager will work in a hybrid model out of our Deerfield, IL-HQ with remote days being Mondays and Fridays.

This position reports into the Product Development Design-to-Value group and is responsible for identifying, assessing, and generating new product opportunities from an engineering, design, sourcing and manufacturing perspective. The Design-to-Value approach integrates consumer, marketplace, design, and cost insights to deliver the ideal consumer experience while unlocking significant margin improvement. This role is a member of an empowered, high performing team that focuses on driving meaningful change across the company by redefining the most strategic product lines.

Responsibilities:

Identify and develop Design-to-Value opportunities:

* In partnership with Product Manager, lead the technical analysis of market, competitive landscape and enterprise-wide product development efforts to identify optimal areas to generate value creation and cost reductions that will drive profitability.

* Drive profitability for current product offerings using broad business acumen and in-depth understanding of Fortune Brands Innovations product development processes.

* Lead engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, and design team members in collaboration with the Design-to-Value team to identify and procure the relevant competitive set of products and then generate insights and opportunities through ideation, teardowns, clean sheets, prototyping, and other analyses.

* Manage and run all product-related ideation, teardown, and design-for-manufacturing-and-assembly assessments with the full cross-functional team.

* Identify relevant metrics and test own and competitor products against metrics to assess.

* Support the Insights Leader by overseeing the readiness of the products to be tested and provide technical feasibility guidance for surveys.

* Provide direction and manage supplier involvement and collaboration and all Design-to-Value related clean sheet activity with next generation sourcing team.

* Support and execute various analyses (portfolio, spend, etc.) in collaboration with the Design-to-Value analyst to identify trends and opportunities.

Assess and facilitate the implementation of ideas:

* Lead cross-functional teams (e.g. manufacturing, platforming, sourcing, design, category management) to assess ideas for feasibility, cost out and value add potential; facilitate business unit buy-in.

* Develop and deliver communication to the Steering Committee and other stakeholders on ideas, analyses, priorities, and impact.

* Support the transfer of approved projects to project teams for execution and provide follow-up support as needed to ensure challenges are overcome and full value is achieved.