The Commercialization Project Manager is responsible for managing overall project progress to deliverables including, issues, risk and change management, budget management, reporting and presentations. Scope of responsibility includes new products and spec changes to existing products for all CFG products sold in Retail, Foodservice, and B to B.

Performance Management

• Present scope of new product launches and product/production process projects with stakeholders
• Manage new product launch process
• Manage product and specification change process
• Utilize discretion in establishing product launch timelines and financial impact
• Create and manage change mgmt. document
• Communicate with functional owner of opportunity to gain understanding of expectations and deliverables
• Identify and engage resources to complete project within timeline
• Hold pre-launch meetings with project execution team
• Train execution team on new product expectations and hold execution team accountable to specifications
• Facilitate and monitor product test runs on the floor as needed
• Coordinate product evaluation post test run
• Ensure adjustments are made to process utilizing the findings from test run product review
• Coordinate resources and define expectations for product samples to be produced
• Communicate, update of project and any deviations to project timeline to key stakeholders
• Identify and communicate any obstacles needed in order to launch product
• Develop and manage high level project trackers (keep up to date)
• Coordinate resources to ensure first shipment inspection is completed
• Implement product and specification changes
• Facilitate production and delivery of samples to destination
• Gather and maintain technical expertise related to product and production processes
• Execute internal survey with customers and stakeholders
• Track resource utilization/time allocation vs standard
• Hold functional areas accountable for completion for project plan
• Review inputs received from stakeholders for project plan; provide feedback regarding inputs

Customer Support

• Develop and maintain strategic customer relationships
• Participate in external customer visits

Technical Support

• Assist in ideation of new products
• Assist in development of specification changes on existing products
• Troubleshooting resource
• Being a technical expert resource to internal and external customers
• Personal growth, stay current on project management best practices
• Promote and support departmental Performance excellence initiatives
• Assist in creating training tools and presentations
• Collaborate and identify process improvement initiatives
• Deliver category training for new sales team members

Team CFG

• Participate in Technical Team Level 10 meeting Participate in leadership class for CFG
• Participate in personal development programs
• participate in job definition process
• Train new hires in touch point functions as part of onboarding process

Required Skills:

• The ability to: quickly recover from adversity; stay on course in times of difficulty; handle rejection on a personal level based on self-esteem; direct one's energies towards the completion of a goal without an external catalyst
• The ability to identify actions necessary to achieve task completion and to obtain results: the ability to meet schedules, deadlines, quotas, and performance goals
• The ability to prioritize and complete tasks in order to deliver desired outcomes within allotted time frames.
• The ability to: be open to people and willingness to hear what other people are saying; "read between the lines" in understanding body language and emotions; not allow unfair implications of prejudged information to enter into and affect an interpersonal relationship.
• The ability to: interact with others in a positive manner; understand others objectively; connect with others on personal level; persuading others to a given point of view
• The ability to take personal responsibility and action toward self-improvement and learning; a measure of how strongly a person feels the need to achieve
• The ability to: establish a process for activities that lead to the implementation of systems, procedures or outcomes; identify long range goals and design plans to attain them; understand the needs of a situation and establish effective action plans; evaluate future implications of current decisions and actions