Senior Project Manager, Commercialization

We seek a highly strategic, deeply organized Senior Project Manager to lead our complex, cross-category innovation and commercialization initiatives. The ideal candidate brings 5-8 years of advanced project leadership experience who does not only monitor progress and manage timelines, budgets, and risks, but also shapes project strategy, drives cross-functional alignment, and anticipates challenges before they surface.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Project Manager, you will oversee and influence multiple high-impact projects through the Stage-Gate process, ensuring disciplined execution, stakeholder confidence, and consistent on-time delivery across a fast-moving innovation pipeline.

Responsibilities

Strategic Project Leadership

• Lead and influence cross-functional teams through complex, innovation projects, overseeing multiple high-move initiatives simultaneously while driving alignment, strategic prioritization, and timely decision-making to ensure disciplined execution.
• Build strategic project frameworks, challenge assumptions, and proactively identify risks and bottlenecks before they impact timelines.
• Drive accountability across teams and elevate issues to leadership when needed to protect launch timing and quality.

Project Management Responsibilities

• Lead and influence high-level, cross-functional project meetings, driving clarity on updates, risks, decisions, and timelines while ensuring alignment across diverse teams and senior stakeholders.
• Design, refine, and lead complex project timelines (Monday.com), driving strategic prioritization, anticipating timeline risks, and enabling cross-functional teams to execute with clarity and precision.
• Oversee end-to-end project performance, using advanced documentation, risk modeling, and mitigation strategies to anticipate issues before they impact delivery.
• Drive accountability at all levels, ensuring cross-functional partners meet commitments and escalating barriers early to protect launch timing and quality.
• Orchestrate cross-functional collaboration, aligning teams around clear objectives, decision pathways, and commercialization requirements for high-moving innovation projects.
• Manage project scope, budgets, and resources effectively to ensure successful on-time project delivery.
• Coach, mentor, and elevate project managers and commercialization team members, strengthening Stage-Gate discipline, operational rigor, and project management excellence across the organization.

Stage-Gate Process

• Support projects through the stage gate process, assisting in ensuring adherence to defined gates and deliverables at each stage.
• Partner with the Innovation Director in preparing for gate reviews, including gathering necessary documentation, helping with presentations, taking detailed notes, and supporting the documentation of the approvals.
• Collaborate with the Innovation Director to ensure key stakeholders are aligned and facilitate decision-making at each gate.
• Provide training on stage gate and commercialization to new team members.
• Implement robust post-launch evaluations to capture learnings and drive continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Facilitate collaboration across product development, marketing, manufacturing, planning, inventory, fulfillment, BAT, sales, and finance.
• Promote clear communication and teamwork to manage interdependencies and address conflicts.
• Serve as the senior liaison between project teams and leadership, providing clear, concise updates on risks, opportunities, and strategic decisions.

Resource Management

• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to secure the right resources at the right time for complex innovation projects.
• Prioritize work across teams to optimize efficiency and ensure critical path tasks stay on track.

Continuous Improvement

• Analyze project data to identify trends, productivity opportunities, and systemic improvements and apply key learnings to drive actionable insights that enhance productivity savings.
• Champion a culture of learning, cross-training, and process optimization.
• Lead initiatives that strengthen commercialization discipline across the organization.

Who You Are

• A Bachelor’s degree in business administration, project management, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• 5-8 years experience as a Project Manager, preferably in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects with high ambiguity and high visibility.
• Expert in project management methodologies, risk mitigation, and strategic prioritization.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in using project management software and collaboration tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail.
• Exceptional communicator with strong executive presence and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to thrive in a team-oriented environment by building relationships, driving alignment, fostering collaboration, and driving results with diverse teams.
• People manager experience preferred.
• PMP certification or equivalent is a plus.
• Project managed in a remote environment, preferred.