Sr Lead, Supply Chain Planning

Job ID: 16596 

Alternate Locations: United States-Virginia-Winchester; United States-Kansas-Wichita; United States-Kansas-Winfield; United States-Ohio-Akron; United States-Ohio-Mogadore; United States-Tennessee-Maryville-Tennessee 

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact—supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day.

Job Summary:

The Sr. Lead, Segment Ingetration – Injection Molding is a central, capability-focused role responsible for driving integration and synergy of the injection molding manufacturing capability across Newell’s plants, spanning all product segments that rely on injection molding. Unlike a category-based SPI, this role integrates a manufacturing capability horizontally: traveling across plants, the SPI harmonizes molding standards, tooling and process practices, drives cross-plant synergies (common tooling standards, resins, process parameters, mold sourcing), and feeds injection molding capability intelligence back into the MDC / NPC and ERA / DFM organizations.

This is an influence-and-integration role: the SPI does not hold change-control authority, but instead aligns, recommends and coordinates to keep the injection molding capability consistent, modern and cost-effective across sites. Reporting directly to the MDC Director. The SPI acts as the connective tissue between plants, NPC design, ERA / DFM and tooling / sourcing, capturing molding synergy opportunities and ensuring that standards, technology and learnings flow across the network.

Job Duties:

Cross-Plant Injection Molding Integration & Synergy

•  Drive synergy of the injection molding capability across plants – common tooling standards, mold-design guidelines, resins, process parameters and suppliers.

•  Identify, quantify and champion molding-related synergy and cost-reduction opportunities (tooling commonality, resin harmonization, mold sourcing, scrap and cycle-time improvement).

•  Harmonize injection molding standards, mold specifications and process practices across sites.

•  Share and scale molding best practices, lessons learned and proven solutions across the network.

Molding Standards & Process Consistency

•  Ensure injection molding standards, mold specs and process requirements are consistently understood and applied across plants – without owning change control.

•  Provide injection molding technical expertise and guidance to plant teams.

•  Flag molding process gaps, tooling risks and deviations to the relevant owners (plant / NPI / ERA-DFM) and support resolution.

Tooling, Resins & Technology

•  Support harmonization of mold / tooling standards, resin selection and molding technology across plants.

•  Promote adoption of advanced molding technology, automation and process improvements.

•  Partner with toolmakers and resin suppliers on standards, feasibility and cost.

Capability Intelligence & DFM Linkage

•  Capture injection molding capability intelligence (process performance, scrap, cycle time, tooling health) and feed it back into NPC design and ERA / DFM.

•  Ensure new product designs leverage the network’s molding capabilities and standards (design for injection molding).

•  Maintain a capability-level view of injection molding across the network.

Cost & VAVE Synergy Support

•  Support cost analyses and VAVE by surfacing molding-related commonality and synergy (tooling, resin, process).

•  Partner with Cost Engineering, sourcing and the laboratory on should-cost, benchmarking and molding cost-reduction that scales across sites.

Key Deliverables:

•  Cross-plant injection molding synergy and commonality pipeline

•  Harmonized molding standards, mold specifications and process practices

•  Injection molding capability intelligence feedback to NPC / DFM

•  Molding best-practice and lessons-learned playbooks

•  Molding synergy / cost-reduction results (influenced across the network)

Minimum Qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Plastics / Polymer, Manufacturing or related).

•  Strong experience in injection molding – process, tooling and part design – in a manufacturing environment.

•  Deep understanding of molding processes, mold design, resins and molding troubleshooting.

•  Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across teams and plants without direct authority.

•  Advanced English (written and spoken).

•  Willingness and ability to travel extensively across plants.

Preferred Qualifications:

•  Experience working across multiple plants, sites or regions.

•  Expertise with mold-filling simulation (Moldflow), scientific molding / DOE and process optimization.

•  Knowledge of DFM for injection molding, VAVE and tooling cost / should-cost.

•  Lean Six Sigma and/or project management background.

•  Spanish and/or Portuguese.

Skills & Abilities:

•  Deep injection molding process, tooling and materials expertise.

•  Strong influence, collaboration and stakeholder management across sites and cultures.

•  Ability to see the big picture across a capability and connect the dots between plants.

•  Comfortable operating without formal authority – leading through expertise and relationships.

•  Self-directed and mobile; analytical, cost-aware problem solver.

Travel:

•  Extensive travel across plants, with periodic global travel, is a core requirement of this role.

“The base pay range for this position is from $111,200 to $152,900. Salary will be based on prior experience related to the skills required for this position.”

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Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.