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,