Commercialization Project Manager

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Full-Time Regular Management US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

• This position will report to the:
  Sr. Director of Commercialization
• Travel Requirement:
  Minimal
• Location:
  
  Remote
• FLSA Status:
  Exempt
• Employment Category:
  Full time regular

Generous Brands is dedicated to inspiring people to thrive through the power of vibrant nutrition through its leading brands, Bolthouse Farms, Health-Ade, and Evolution Fresh. Generous Brands partners with SAMBAZON to manufacture, distribute and sell SAMBAZON branded beverages.

Bolthouse Farms is a pre-eminent provider of chilled juice, smoothies, shakes, and protein drinks.
Health-Ade is the fastest growing kombucha brand, dedicated to creating bubbly beverages that boost gut health.
Evolution Fresh is a premier cold-pressed juice brand with national availability. And,
SAMBAZON beverages bottle the superfruit power of açaí in juice and natural energy cans.

The company operates its North American business from facilities in Southern California, and the Greater Chicago Area. To learn more, please visit  .

The Commercialization Project Manager plays a key role in delivering growth and business priorities across the Generous Brands portfolio through innovation, reformulation, renovation, packaging development, operational efficiency and other cross-functional commercialization initiatives. The manager will lead a portfolio of projects across one or more brands, with assignments based on business needs. Projects may represent significant incremental sales, customer commitments, cost savings, operational improvements and strategic priorities for the company.

This role is highly visible and requires strong cross-functional leadership from project intake and approval through commercialization and execution.

• Lead cross-functional teams on innovation, renovation, reformulation, packaging development, operational efficiency, engineering and other commercialization projects across the Generous Brands portfolio.
• Own project execution from approved project brief through launch, including timelines, milestones, critical paths, risks, dependencies and cross-functional deliverables.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery of project requirements including timing, task management, change management, product characteristics, cost, profitability, quality, supply readiness and customer commitments.
• Develop and recommend the best path to execute the project brief quickly and efficiently while meeting customer and consumer expectations, quality requirements and financial objectives.
• Drive project stage-gate discipline, ensuring projects are appropriately scoped, prioritized, approved and ready to advance through each phase of commercialization.
• Proactively identify project risks, constraints and decisions needed; elevate issues with clear facts, options and recommendations.
• Manage change management systems and ensure project information, decisions, timelines and status are accurately maintained in project management tools.
• Lead multiple cross-functional teams of 20 or more stakeholders while managing several complex projects that may range from approximately 6 to 24 months.
• Build effective working relationships across Marketing, Sales, R&D/Product Development, Operations, Procurement, Quality, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, Master Data and other functions.
• Provide clear project updates and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership and the Executive Leadership Team, as needed.
• Support plant trials, first production, launches and post-launch activities as required.

• Demonstrated experience leading projects or significantly contributing to project success beyond the candidate’s primary functional area.
• Strong understanding of project stage gates, prioritization, project planning, business performance metrics and cross-functional decision-making.
• Ability to work effectively with key stakeholders and clearly articulate…