Na Product Lifecycle & Design To Value Manager Job at Ontex Peninsular (Stokesdale)

Job Responsibility

Drive cost efficiency, product optimization, and standardization across North America
Execute cost-saving initiatives, ensure raw material and product designs remain competitive, and support procurement strategies through market intelligence
Monitor product lifecycles and design transfers from master specifications to SKU BOMs, ensuring accuracy, minimizing waste, and improving efficiency
Serve as the regional lead for product portfolio, reducing complexity, ensuring harmonization across production sites, and supporting commercial teams in executing non-innovation growth initiatives
Streamline operations, accelerate innovation, and maintain a cost-competitive product portfolio
Drive cost competitiveness for raw materials and product designs in North America
Support procurement strategies through market intelligence and benchmarking, administering raw material specifications to align with production needs, and fostering strategic supplier relationships
Define and implement Design Transfer processes in collaboration with Industrialization and NPI teams
Liaise with the global Product Portfolio Management team, supporting efforts to control product complexity, enabling commercial teams in volume growth initiatives, and ensuring harmonization and interchangeability across North American production sites.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biomedical, or related field and 8 years of experience in the job offered or a related Product Development, Hygiene, Non-Woven or Consumer Goods occupation
Must include 8 years of experience in each of the following: Developing and optimizing product designs and materials to enhance performance and cost efficiency for disposable absorbent products
Validating raw materials and new product concepts, in collaboration with suppliers and internal labs
Characterizing materials (e.g., fluff pulp, SAP, nonwovens, films, adhesives) for performance attributes such as absorbency, rewet, retention, and/or softness
Navigating complex IP constraints to ensure freedom to operate and/or designing around existing patents to enable market access managing risks
Working with super absorbent polymers and nonwoven materials (i.e. spunbond, meltblown, carded), selecting and validating them based on performance parameters, such as retention capacity, permeability, softness to optimize product design in absorbent hygiene products
Travel required up to 15% of the time.