Globalization Manager, Cuisinart
Job ID 2023-01530
Description
Position Summary
Cuisinart is building a more globally integrated product organization—where innovation is architected for worldwide scalability from day one.
We are seeking a highly structured and execution-driven Globalization Manager to serve as the Product organization’s Center of Excellence for globalization standards.
This role ensures global compliance requirements, regional needs, and standardized data processes are embedded into product development across all categories. This individual will sit on the Product Team and drive consistent global readiness practices—reducing rework, accelerating launch timelines, and enabling scalable platforms.
This is a cross-category role with broad influence and high operational impact.
Key Responsibilities
Global Standards Ownership
- Own and maintain standardized global readiness requirements across regions (US, UK, AUS, CAN, MEX).
- Consolidate regulatory, electrical, labeling, packaging, and documentation requirements into unified development checklists.
- Ensure global compliance considerations are embedded into stage-gate deliverables.
Embed Global Thinking Upstream
- Partner with Product, Industrial Design, and Engineering teams to incorporate global market needs into briefs and early concept reviews.
- Promote platform scalability versus single-region customization where appropriate.
- Flag regional conflicts or constraints before design freeze.
Global Systems & Data Standardization
- Lead development and implementation of a single standardized global item setup form across regional systems.
- Ensure consistent product data integrity across PLM, ERP, and regional systems.
- Drive adoption of standardized documentation practices across teams.
Governance & Execution Discipline
- Product organization’s point of contact for global readiness questions & escalation.
- Ensure adherence to global readiness processes and drive corrective action where needed.
- Support leadership reporting on global launch readiness and risk exposure.
What Success Looks Like
- Products designed for global compliance from concept stage.
- One unified global item setup process adopted across regions.
- Reduced late-stage compliance and documentation issues.
- Improved data consistency across systems.
- Faster, cleaner global product launches.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in product development, regulatory coordination, portfolio operations, or global commercialization.
- Experience working across international markets and regulatory requirements.
- Familiarity with PLM/ERP systems and product data management.
- Strong process orientation with exceptional follow-through.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Ability to take calls early mornings and evenings as necessary to ensure alignment with the global teams – especially in APAC region.
Leadership Profile
- Structured and detail-oriented.
- Proactive in identifying risk and closing process gaps.
- Confident operating cross-functionally.
- Execution-focused with a global mindset.
Why This Role Matters
As Cuisinart scales globally, globalization cannot be an afterthought. This role institutionalizes global readiness within Product—ensuring innovation is built for worldwide success from the start.
Environmental Factors
- Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
- Must be able to sit for extended periods of time.
- Must be able to use a computer keyboard and view a monitor for extended periods of time.
- This role requires Stamford, CT office on-site presence Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere on Fridays.
What we offer
- Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision plans
- Generous Paid Time Off Programs
- Life & Disability Insurance
- FSA/HSA/Dependent Care FSA
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401k and company match
- EAP & Employee Wellness Programs
- Volunteer Days Paid Time Off
- Free breakfast and lunch in the Stamford office
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 include CONAIR, Cuisinart, Cuisinart Outdoors, 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 brands that enhance their lives.