New Product Fulfillment Lead

Fulfillment Lead

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of MillerKnoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

Leads and supervises a multi-functional fulfillment team for small to medium, less complex new product programs. Manages programs to support key product and process strategies with an emphasis on teamwork, leadership, setting project objectives, and approaches project objectives with a business development and implementation attitude. Serves as the fulfillment lead on new product core teams.

Essential Functions

• Defines, locates, and secures internal and external manufacturing and assembly resources and establishes and maintains a network to support product design, development, and commercialization.
• Leads efforts to create and maintain product costs and capital investment throughout the project.
• Leads efforts to establish and validate value streams of all parts and products on a project.
• Leads efforts to validate system readiness of all products on a project.
• Supports efforts to ensure manufacturing readiness levels are achieved at all stages of the product development process.
• Supports efforts for global regionalization of products by other fulfillment leads in those regions as needed.
• Ensuring that lean manufacturing principles and quality operating standards are reflected in all project results.
• Leads the drive toward attainment of business objectives to reduce warranty and defect PPM measurements and to increase reliability of ship-to-promise.
• Maintains communication with the development project teams and operational support groups to ensure successful implementation within the program directives.
• Organizes, plans, and leads the new product manufacturing and logistics implementation.
• Provides communication link with operations teams to ensure current availability of product development information.
• Provides operational expertise, insight into the solution, design, and development process, and process methodology that will provide successful implementation of new product programs.
• Strategically positions the new product offerings to meet required customer lead-time expectations by developing programs, processes, and distribution capabilities; solidifies key links between site personnel and appropriate core team members to guarantee successful project implementation and facilitating strong tie to site resources to meet their needs and enable their success.

Qualifications

Skills and abilities

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodation.

Who We Hire?

Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We're committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.