Associate Manager Project Mgmnt

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER.It's our heritage and it's also our future. Because we don't just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard-when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day.

We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Innovation Ventures is where Mattel builds what's next. As our entrepreneurial innovation studio, Innovation Ventures exists to create the next generation of breakthrough brands, new business models, and entirely new ways to play. Operating with the agility of a startup and the resources of one of the world's leading toy companies, our team turns emerging consumer insights into bold new concepts that have the potential to become Mattel's next growth driver.

If you're energized by ambiguity, passionate about solving problems in new ways, and excited by the opportunity to build something from the ground up, Innovation Ventures offers the rare chance to shape the future of play while making a lasting impact on Mattel's long-term growth.

The Associate Project Manager will be a key member of the Portfolio Planning team within Global Supply Chain. This position will lead strategic projects and new product launch initiatives from early planning through launch readiness, ensuring clear plans, ownership, milestones and decision points are established across functions.

The successful candidate will be a highly effective project leader who can bring structure to complex and ambiguous initiatives, establish scalable processes, and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. This individual will serve as a central point of coordination across Brand, Product Development, Commercial, Demand Planning, Supply Planning and other key partners to ensure risks are identified early, decisions are made at the appropriate level, and teams remain aligned to deliver against launch objectives.

• Lead complex cross‑functional projects and new product launch initiatives, establishing clear objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, ownership and governance.
• Develop and maintain integrated project and launch plans that connect key activities and dependencies across Brand, Product Development, Commercial, Demand Planning, Supply Planning and other functions.
• Serve as a cross‑functional orchestration lead, bringing stakeholders together to drive alignment, resolve issues and maintain accountability against agreed plans.
• Establish project management processes, operating rhythms, tools and governance that provide consistent visibility to status, risks, dependencies and decisions required.
• Proactively identify project and launch risks, assess business impact, develop mitigation plans and facilitate timely escalation and resolution.
• Lead cross‑functional meetings and working sessions with clear objectives, decisions, actions, owners and follow‑through.
• Influence stakeholders without direct authority to drive decisions, accountability and execution across multiple functions and levels of the organization.
• Partner with functional teams to clarify roles, responsibilities, decision rights and handoffs throughout the project and launch lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize and improve processes; lead implementation of sustainable solutions across brands and functions.
• Translate complex project information into concise updates and recommendations for senior leadership and cross‑functional…