Fortune Brands Innovations · 3 days ago
Manager, Product Development Systems
Deerfield, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$105K/yr - $165K/yr
6+ years expFortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes. The Manager of Product Development & Engineering Systems is responsible for executing the strategic vision and providing technical leadership for Global Product Development & Engineering systems and associated processes.
Consumer GoodsSecurity
Responsibilities
Lead the development and execution of portfolio management, project management, and engineering system improvements that drive greater efficiencies, and leverage our global scale to achieve industry-leading results, including improvements to eliminate waste, improve engineering productivity, and incremental changes to continuously improve speed to market
Lead Global Product Development & Engineering in determining what portfolio management, project management, and engineering process improvements are required to drive the achievement of BU strategic and business objectives. Proactively identify the impact of potential process changes, integrate new initiatives with existing processes, and ensure that all processes are consistent and fit together
Lead development and execution of cross-functional system improvements (SAP BPC), as it applies to product Development related organizations
Deliver actionable insights based upon key portfolio metric trends, and accountable for assuring global process discipline. Lead the creation and implementation of reports, dashboards and other analytics that will help the GPD organization make insightful decisions about people, processes, and projects
Facilitate and guide the strategic decision-making processes by defining, monitoring, and reporting key metrics; continue to evolve key metrics as business strategies and objectives evolve. Lead the generation of solutions to complex business problems by mining data and reports to yield relevant, actionable insights
Responsible for technical leadership within engineering systems and engineering change control to seamlessly convey product engineering information into manufacturing and suppliers
In collaboration with IT, Business Units and Manufacturing Operations, establish the future looking system technology roadmap to enable necessary global integration across GPG. Provide technical subject-matter-expertise in the evaluation technology changes that may advance capability
Lead the development, improvement and implementation of global system standards, procedures, and best-practice across Global Product Development & Engineering
Work with IT and established third party software vendors to communicate, test and deploy necessary configuration changes to software (upgrades). Provide software implementation and support, including, but not limited to, MS Project Online , SharePoint, QlikView, SQL, SAP, BPC, Jira, Altium, Ansys, FloEFD, and others
Provide necessary change management documentation to IT when change or maintenance is needed in software tools to support Global Product Development & Engineering processes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences or related field is required
Minimum 6 years of experience in engineering and/or product development to include 4 years leading the support and implementation of enterprise-level PPM systems in a distributed global organization is required
Expert level knowledge and hands-on configuration experience of, MS Project online, SharePoint online, SQL Server, required
Experience with Microsoft Power Platform tools (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI etc.) is required
Experience in merging data from SAP R3 ERP platform with MS Project Online/SQL Server data, and Excel based financial models within QlikView analytics software required
Experience in the design and development of insightful portfolio dashboards and analytics; in depth knowledge of project ROI financial metric relationships and interdependencies required
Excellent technology troubleshooting skills, and ability to learn new tools, skills, and environments quickly
Ability to effectively manage change and complex organizational projects, navigate and influence others in a matrixed environment (management experience preferred), deliver tough messages and resolve conflict
Demonstrated success assessing and managing risk in complex and ambiguous situations
Excellent written and oral communications skills, technical writing experience, and procedure / instruction writing experience
High level of communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with people at all levels and functions of the organization
Ability and willingness to travel up to approximately 10% of the time, both domestically and internationally
Preferred
Experience with other Microsoft Cloud Technologies like Azure Services is a huge plus
Experience within engineering systems (3DX/SolidWorks), change control processes connected to a distributed manufacturing environment, linking engineering PLM systems with manufacturing ERP systems is a plus
Benefits
Robust health plans
A market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution
Product discounts
Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy)
Inclusive fertility / adoption benefits
Company
Fortune Brands Innovations
Fortune Brands Innovations is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$900M2022-03-28Post Ipo Debt· $900M
2011-10-04IPO
Leadership Team
Todd R. Teter
Senior Vice President and General Manager Global Plumbing Group House of Rohl
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