Director, Portfolio Commercialization

Marketing / Brand Management | Stamford, Connecticut

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

Drive Commercial Readiness for Flawless new Product Launches

Cross-Functional Leadership :

Experience & Skills

As 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.

What We Offer

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!

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