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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.

The Sr. Director Portfolio Commercialization is responsible for driving strategic oversight and business rigor on how Cuisinart commercializes its portfolio of new products. This role leads and orchestrates across functions, collaborating with both upstream product teams as well as downstream product, marketing and sales to enable a robust pipeline of successful products launches.

This leader will act as trusted advisor to the Cuisinart Leadership Team (BU President and functional VPs – product, marketing & trade, sales), serving as integrator across product, marketing and sales, ensuring successful end-to-end strategy, planning and execution to deliver best-in-industry commercial toolkits for new product launches. 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.

As Sr. Director Portfolio Commercialization, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how our products are coming to market, and step-changing our ability to win with consumers and retailers in the kitchen appliances industry.

• 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 with 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 & 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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!