Responsibilities

• Category Strategy & Innovation: Define the long-term global strategy for the Cooking category and identify disruptive opportunities to grow market share.
• Portfolio Management: Own the lifecycle of the global cooking portfolio, driving growth and innovation.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead a matrix team of Designers, Project Leaders (PLO), Engineers, and Brand Marketers to move ideas from concept to production.
• Consumer Centricity: Use global consumer insights and trends to define product definitions that deliver on KitchenAid’s brand promise.
• Global Launch Coordination: Coordinate go-to-market and launch plans with regional teams, ensuring localization, in-market execution, and brand consistency.
• WPD Governance: Drive the Whirlpool Product Development process for the cooking category, ensuring tollgates are met on time, budget, and quality.
• Financial & Business Case Accountability: Meet global cost, margin, and profitability targets and present compelling business cases to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 7+ years of professional experience in consumer-facing brands.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Marketing, Product Development, Brand Management and/or Merchandising.

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated success leading and influencing cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
• Experience managing or launching products in the Small Domestic Appliance (SDA) or consumer electronics sectors (specifically cooking categories).
• Proven track record of managing a global or multi-regional product portfolio.
• Strong financial acumen with experience building business cases and monitoring product P&Ls.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence up, down, and across the organization.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package, Whirlpool employee discount, fitness & educational reimbursement programs, kitchenettes, and more.
• Saint Joseph/Benton Harbor locations: renovated office space, free coffee, biking/walking trails, and access to The Eddy – Early Childhood Center (availability and costs vary).
• Whirlpool’s Ways of Working and flexible time-off benefits to balance work and life.
• Always On Flexibility to manage personal and outside-work commitments.
• Two-Week Work from Anywhere with minimum one-week increments per year.
• Sabbatical – Four weeks paid leave after every five years of service.