Newell Brands is looking to fill a Front-End Innovation (FEI) Product Researcher role to help envision and deliver winning product experiences, claims, demo and competitive moat strategies, and plans to fuel the sector's long-term sustainable growth by expanding and/or transforming the market.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Methods, Sample Testing, Safety Testing, and Lab Instrumentation
- Experience working on disruptive or transformative innovation projects.
- Strong analytical, scientific method, and problem-solving skills to identify research challenges and propose and test practical and efficient solutions.
- Experience with navigating ambiguity and adapting plans as new information emerges.
- Experience working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, with proven experience with rapid, hypothesis-based iterative learning and testing.
- Has an entrepreneurial, curious and solutions-oriented mindset.
- Strong communication skills and comfort presenting ideas – especially technical concepts to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in a way that conveys the most critical information to non-technical experts.
Responsibilities
- Developing technical insights that inspire breakthrough solutions.
- Collaborating internally and externally to Identify technical solution spaces, emerging/new technologies, etc. to contribute to and participate in the ideation process and help to screen the best comprehensive ideas and solutions based on strategic priorities, competitive opportunities, project KPI’s and constraints.
- Craft Technology Benefit Domain Vision and action plans (lead multi-functional process) and technical success criteria.
- Low res functional prototyping and iterative prototyping.
- Work with marketing to create desired benefits, claims and to ideate demos. Craft learning and execute proof of technical claims and demos.
- Partner with Product Supply on feasibility assessments - and help to problem-solve as needed.
- Partner with Marketing, Legal and Regulatory to deliver IP and Regulatory assessments; Lead the process create a vision and execute the plan to create a competitive moat.
Other
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an Engineering or Science field (Engineering, Biology, or Chemistry, although other similar majors will be considered).
- Manager: 5+ years of experience in consumer-driven R&D or similar products research experience, with 3+ years in innovation in CPG
- Senior Manager: 8+ years of experience in consumer-driven R&D or similar products research experience, with 3+ years in innovation in CPG
- Proven track record of working successfully with external partners and cross-functionally across Marketing, Insights, Design and Finance.
- Note: This position has the ability to be a Manager or a Senior Manager level position, depending on the candidate’s qualifications and experience.
