Project Commercialization Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead End-to-End Project Execution
• Own commercialization projects from concept through launch across varying scopes, timelines, and risk profiles, ensuring consistent accountability and delivery
• Build and manage integrated project plans in Microsoft Project; lead kickoffs to align scope, governance, and ways of working
• Orchestrate cross-functional execution across logistics, manufacturing, planning, and systems to successfully migrate operations, establish new capabilities, and stabilize performance post-transition
• Conduct feasibility and risk assessments across technical, supply, operational, packaging, and manufacturing dimensions, applying appropriate governance based on complexity
• Track milestones, dependencies, and critical path; proactively manage stakeholders to maintain momentum and deliverables
• Capture trade-offs, risks, and decision rationale to ensure alignment and timely resolution
• Prepare projects for stage-gate transitions, partnering with the project teams to structure inputs through a Desirability, Viability, and Feasibility (DVF) lens
• Lead launch readiness and execution; conduct post-launch reviews to capture insights and strengthen future delivery. Serve as the Central Connector
• Align cross-functional teams around a single, integrated commercialization plan, ensuring coordinated inputs, decisions, and handoffs
• Create clarity in ambiguous or fast-moving situations so teams can execute with confidence
• Ground Plans in Operational Reality
• Ensure commercialization plans reflect true feasibility across product, packaging, manufacturing, supply, and systems readiness
• Harness cross-functional expertise across all workstreams, translating functional strengths into an integrated end-to-end project plan that drives readiness from development through launch
• Drive Continuous Improvement
• Identify opportunities to accelerate timelines, simplify execution, and reduce risk across commercialization processes
• Apply post-launch learnings to improve stage-gate discipline, documentation quality, and cross-functional effectiveness

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in commercialization project management, operations, supply chain, or manufacturing within CPG, food/beverage, or similar industries
• Proven experience leading projects from concept through launch, including exposure to plant execution and manufacturing environments
• Strong understanding of how products are made, scaled, and delivered in production settings
• Able to translate technical and operational realities into clear, actionable plans
• Highly organized with demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and priorities
• Resourceful, proactive, and solutions-oriented, with a bias toward action and delivery
• Clear communicator who drives alignment, decisions, and execution across functions
• Low ego, high ownership, team-first mindset with a focus on delivering outcomes