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Leading a team to develop a long term global strategy for our Laundry platform along with detailed product plans in collaboration with our regional business leaders. The focus of these plans is to drive consumer relevant innovation, differentiated business value and provide a vehicle for architecture simplification. From an operational perspective the team is also accountable for managing the budget for the global laundry engineering team.

Leading a global team accountable for wash performance and aesthetics leadership on vertical axis washing machines Developing global solutions to address consumer needs in every region Driving global scale with the right emphasis on innovation, cost and quality

Drive commodity strategies between procurement and engineering Leverage commodity analytics for strategic insights and cost/complexity improvement Develop cost leadership capabilities including IT systems initiatives Lead development of next generation product development processes

Developed a global materials technology organization structure and operating model for 110+ global materials professionals to drive: -Materials technology innovations -Raw material strategies with procurement -Improvement of materials technology testing and approval methodologies -Execution of materials technology product launch, cost and quality projects

Led a global team of 30+ advanced development professionals focused on delivering consumer relevant cooking innovations Delivered multiple innovations to the marketplace Increased the knowledge base of core cooking sciences and practices

Development of consumer relevant solutions Leading a global team of technical experts Driving global leverage through architecture rationalization

Various engineering level roles with increasing levels of global project and team accountabilities (WERLD Program, Advanced Manufacturing and Refrigeration emphasis)