Director, Portfolio Commercialization - Conair LLC : Job Details

Director, Portfolio Commercialization role at Conair LLC

Position at Cuisinart

About Cuisinart: Cuisinart is a renowned consumer product company that specializes in delivering high-quality kitchen appliances and equipment to bring more joy to the heart of people's home. Today Cuisinart continues its heritage of innovation with an ever-expanding array of essentials that inspire people to cook great food more often, experience the joy of cooking and explore their culinary creativity. Today, tomorrow, always, Cuisinart makes great cooking easier with cooking gear you feel proud to own.

About the position

The Director, Portfolio Commercialization is responsible for driving strategic oversight and business rigor on how Cuisinart commercializes its portfolio of new products. This leadership role will serve as an integrator across product, marketing and sales, ensuring successful end-to-end strategy, planning and execution of critical tasks to deliver best-in-industry commercial toolkits for new product launches – on time, with high quality. This leader will also build the capability of the organization through best-in-class work processes and developing people's skills. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in innovation strategy, project management and new products commercialization, with a strong ability to influence internal stakeholders across levels and functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Commercialization Strategy for New Product Innovation
• Drive strategic oversight, portfolio view and business rigor on how we launch and commercialize new products
• Drive portfolio prioritization and focus, providing recommendation on resource allocation to Lead Team
• Help set and track key success criteria for launch, leading and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver

Define and Implement New Commercialization Process

• Lead and collaborate across functions to define and fine tune new product commercialization process
• Lead implementation and own process operations (in-take forms, stage-gate tracking, timelines)
• Ensure continuous process improvement

Drive Portfolio Sufficiency Analysis & Governance

• Lead process to prioritize and sequence new product launches to deliver portfolio sufficiency
• Assess and communicate portfolio and project status vs. business goals (revenue projection, launch date, launch readiness, etc.)
• Own New Product Commercialization Steering Team Meetings, enabling decision making by Cuisinart Leadership team

Drive Commercial Readiness for Flawless New Product Launches

• Ensure sufficient and capable cross-functional resources are engaged to deliver complete, on-time toolkit for flawless execution across retailers
• Ensure decisions are fully communicated, track status and completion of critical tasks for launch readiness
• Anticipate and flag key risks and mitigation plan for Executive decision

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Work closely with product, brand, insights, media, sales and supply teams to ensure strong end-to-end execution of new product launches
• Partner with CCL and Product teams to fully integrate technical and commercial processes and deliverables
• Lead and develop a high-performing Project Management team, fostering a culture of strategic rigor and executional excellence.

Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of experience in operations, project management, product and innovation management or new products commercialization
• Proven ability to lead cross-functionally to execute successful new product launches
• Strong understanding of product innovation cycle and what needs to be true to achieve commercial success in consumer products industries
• Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive decision-making
• Experience working with product and marketing teams, as well as operations and sales
• Demonstrated leadership, team building and collaboration skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with sales & key retail partners

Environmental Factors

• Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to use a computer keyboard and view a monitor for extended periods of time.
• This role requires on-site presence Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere on Fridays.

What we offer

• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision plans
• Generous Paid Time Off Programs
• Life & Disability Insurance
• FSA/HSA/Dependent Care FSA
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401k and company match
• EAP & Employee Wellness Programs
• Volunteer Days Paid Time Off
• Free breakfast and lunch in the Stamford office

About Conair

Conair is a leading international designer, manufacturer, and marketer of branded personal care and small kitchen appliances, cookware, hairbrushes & accessories, cosmetic bags, and travel accessories.

Conair has always been driven by a passion for innovation; it's part of the Company's DNA. Trendsetting products have been invented by Conair since its inception in 1959, keeping the Company always a step ahead of the competition. The company's domestic and international divisions offer a diversified mix of consumer and professional products sold in over 120 countries. The Family of Conair brands includes CONAIR, Cuisinart, BabylissPRO, Scünci , TRAVELSMART by CONAIR, and Waring.

Conair's passion for innovation gets stronger with each decade, as evidenced by the over 1,000 patents the Company has obtained worldwide. Today, Conair and its brands are names known throughout the world. Conair continues to introduce its brands to new and emerging markets, year after year. By the 1990s, most households in America owned at least one Conair product. Today many have more than one, and the Company's goal is to ensure that every household in the world eventually owns one of our products.

At Conair, we inspire our customers with innovative high-quality products and iconic brands that enhance their lives.

Are you passionate about this opportunity but worried that you don't have 100% of the experience we're looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Conair!