Associate Project Manager – Commercialization

Associate Project Manager – Commercialization

Requirements

• 4+ years of Project Management experience
• Working knowledge of Project Management processes and tools.
• Experience supporting and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion of a project.
• General understanding of CPG manufacturing processes with specific attention to food production.
• Ability to manage projects in a smooth and proactive workflow.
• Lead effective team meetings and customer review meetings.
• Lead problem identification and resolution.
• Understanding of artwork development and experience leading artwork approval processes.
• Ensure effective communication within a project team.
• Ability to work with various internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Detail oriented, strong sense of urgency and ability to work independently.
• Ability to multitask.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities with the team throughout all aspects of the product lifecycle phases, ensuring seamless on-time execution with achieved deliverables that are in line with internal stakeholders and customer expectations.
• Manage communications and process workflows across key departments to ensure efficient, accurate execution of initiatives.
• Lead weekly cross-functional meetings to ensure projects are executed in a timely manner and that the broader organization is aligned with the status of key initiatives.
• Compile and distribute weekly meeting notes to all stakeholders with key updates to each respective project within the organization.
• Ability to set realistic goals for each project and manage performance against those goals.
• Identify potential risks within the project and proactively implement solutions to address these concerns.
• Analyze new RFQ project requests for accurate and thorough information, ensuring the project hits minimum volume requirements and other key criteria.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the process is moving forward in an accurate and timely manner.
• Lead onboarding projects so that they meet the expectations of the customer, achieve internal objectives (ex. sales, volume, profitability), and meet committed timelines.
• Develop project plans including timeline development to ensure that all functions are aligned to the completion criteria.
• Lead offboarding projects to ensure customers are aligned to runout timing, material, and financial exposure is reduced to a minimum, and all items are appropriately disposed/deactivated.
• Recommend innovative solutions to business process challenges that streamline activities, reduce costs, and drive greater accuracy across the product lifecycle management process.
• Deliver measurement tools for ongoing processes that provide management visibility. Ex. Annual volume accuracy between RFQ and Onboarded projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• GDSN data pool experience a plus.