Sr. Manager Value Engineering & Platform Strategy

Sr. Manager Value Engineering & Platform Strategy

Job Category: T5

Requisition Number: SRMAN
002827

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• Posted :
  December 5, 2025
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Ohio
8615 Usher Rd
Olmsted Township, OH 44138, USA

Ohio
8615 Usher Rd
Olmsted Township, OH 44138, USA

Vitamix is unquestionably the premium brand of high-performance “blenders,” and known for its top-notch company culture and climate. It is an important component of what makes Vitamix unique and successful, and the reason why Vitamix is recognized as a Top Workplace, North Coast
99 Winner, and Smart Culture Award recipient.

Throughout its 100+ year history, Vitamix has encouraged and promoted healthy lifestyles for both its customers and employees. Employees enjoy multiple wellness programs and perks, a free Vitamix machine, and an onsite fitness center. Vitamix also offers a flexible work environment, great work culture, healthy living initiatives like fitness reimbursements, and opportunities for advancement.

For consumers, Vitamix can be found domestically in places like William Sonoma, Sur la Table, Crate & Barrel, Target, Amazon, and at , and is in over 130 countries around the world.

Ultimately, Vitamix is the Global-leader in high-performance blending solutions for home and commercial use, is preferred by chefs and is found in many of top restaurants around the world. It is relied upon by culinary schools in the U.S. and has been used to train thousands of students and master chefs worldwide. If it is not a Vitamix, it’s just a blender.

Vitamix is seeking a Sr. Manager Value Engineering (VE) & Platform Strategy who will spearhead the vision for VE, platforming and cost optimization. This strategic leader will be responsible for building and prioritizing a high-impact pipeline of VA/VE and platforming initiatives, bridging the gap between technical possibilities and commercial financial goals. By partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, and Supply Chain, this role ensures that strategic cost roadmaps are translated into actionable specifications and successfully delivered, optimizing value across the product portfolio.

The successful candidate will have deep experience in engineering with a focus on VE, Platform Architecture with high-volume consumer products, appliances, or electro-mechanical products.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define and drive long-term platforming and modularity strategies that maximize component reuse, reduce SKU complexity, and accelerate time-to-market across the global product portfolio.
• Provide high level architectural guidance and system-level specifications to execution teams, ensuring that design decisions align with broader business goals for scalability and manufacturing efficiency.
• Evaluate and champion the adoption of emerging materials, technologies, and manufacturing processes that offer competitive advantages in cost, weight, performance or sustainability.
• Lead the strategic development of a robust, Cost-Out and Value-Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) pipeline, utilizing competitive teardowns, data analysis, and cross-functional workshops to identify high-impact opportunities.
• Transform raw ideas into actionable business cases with clear ROI, technical specifications, and risk assessments, ensuring a high-quality backlog of “ready-to-execute” projects.
• Ensure all cost-reduction and platforming initiatives rigorously maintain or enhance product quality, customer experience, and brand reputation; serve as the gatekeeper against “cost-cutting at the expense of value.”
• Serve as the strategic bridge between Product Management, Engineering and Supply Chain leadership to align to technical possibilities with both household and commercial roadmaps and financial targets.
• Establish and manage a structured prioritization framework to evaluate competing initiatives, allocating resources to projects with the highest strategic value and financial return.
• Monitor the end-to-end lifecycle of approved projects – from concept to validation – identifying critical risks, removing organizational barriers, and ensuring execution teams deliver against time, cost and specification targets.

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