Lead Platform Manager

Fortune Brands is hiring a Lead Platform Manager to support our Bath and Security teams in Product Development and Innovation. This role will provide support to a high volume of NPD projects, competitive analysis requests, platform/product decision support, and completion of design efficiency toolsets.

Location: This Lead Platform Manager - Bath, will be eligible for a hybrid schedule working onsite in our North Olmsted, OH office Tuesdays - Thursdays with remote days being Mondays and Fridays. 

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to develop system and subsystem designs that meet business growth requirements for cost, quality, and timing (e.g., valves, handle systems, locking mechanisms, etc.).
• Develop financial and platform metrics for each global platform that drives sound decision-making for Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN) to maximize success in markets and with efficient operations.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations teams to develop optimal solutions for manufacturing, cost, quality, complexity, and timing using a deep understanding of platform subsystems and component interactions.
• Lead and define scope for subsystem improvement projects to enable more efficient product development
• Partner with project team to ensure critical product specifications, subsystem interfaces, and user defined functions (UDF’s) are documented for use in new product development.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Quality Assurance, Industrial Design, Sourcing and suppliers to tie cross-business activities that affect assigned subsystems.
• Analyze subsystem usage across FBIN to identify improvement opportunities for cost, quality, timing, and complexity.
• Support cost, reliability and quality projects within FBIN that improve quality, customer perception, or supply chain issues.
• Interface with Design to Value (DtV) and Manufacturing Process Development teams to evaluate ideas and drive system level design solutions that optimize both cost and consumer value.
• Continuously improve the processes, skills, team, and tools necessary to achieve Company’s product leadership strategy.
• Govern the use of product specifications, subsystem interfaces, and UDF's for use in new product development