What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercialization Manager - Dixie position at Koch?
Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is looking for a Commercialization Manager to join the team! The Commercialization Manager is responsible for conducting commercialization trials for capability and qualification confirmations in support of new product launches, containerboard specification changes, and new equipment.
This role ensures trials and qualification runs are planned and executed through building and sustaining relationships and being the preferred partner with multiple stakeholders including Operations, Brand, R&D, and Quality. Your goal is to optimize profitable quality performance and meeting desired customer experience for our commercial brand and operating partners across the Georgia-Pacific Dixie value stream.
This can be a remote role with travel up to 50% with fluctuations at times based on business needs. This role primarily supports sites in the Southeast. Successful candidates will reside in the Southeast Region.
Our Team
The Dixie Quality Team is responsible for leading and influencing quality at our Dixie sites to meet production expectations, drive quality improvements, support perpetual transformation, profitable variation reduction, and develop quality talent using project management and statistical tools. The group's combined talents complement each other to optimize and ensure operational, brand & commercialization support that enables virtuous cycles of mutual benefit with partners, manufacturing and commercial.
What You Will Do
What Will Put You Ahead
For this role, we anticipate paying $120-160K per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. (add new language)
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf
Georgia-Pacific is looking for a Commercialization Manager to join the team! The Commercialization Manager is responsible for conducting commercialization trials for capability and qualification confirmations in support of new product launches, containerboard specification changes, and new equipment.
This role ensures trials and qualification runs are planned and executed through building and sustaining relationships and being the preferred partner with multiple stakeholders including Operations, Brand, R&D, and Quality. Your goal is to optimize profitable quality performance and meeting desired customer experience for our commercial brand and operating partners across the Georgia-Pacific Dixie value stream.
This can be a remote role with travel up to 50% with fluctuations at times based on business needs. This role primarily supports sites in the Southeast. Successful candidates will reside in the Southeast Region.
Our Team
The Dixie Quality Team is responsible for leading and influencing quality at our Dixie sites to meet production expectations, drive quality improvements, support perpetual transformation, profitable variation reduction, and develop quality talent using project management and statistical tools. The group's combined talents complement each other to optimize and ensure operational, brand & commercialization support that enables virtuous cycles of mutual benefit with partners, manufacturing and commercial.
What You Will Do
- Leading quality processes that ensure that Dixie products and changes to our products are brought to market efficiently and effectively.
- Evaluating the product against acceptance criteria and determining if trial goals are met to ensure sustainable production.
- Enabling the performance of Dixie products to be integrated into operational discipline, resulting in reduced losses, accomplished by using process tools that identify losses, uncover root cause and lead operations to effective corrective action which prevents reoccurrence.
- Trouble shooting and problem resolution as required to meet the success criteria during the runs.
- Organize and lead the total project PPA (Potential Problem Analysis) for large and complex projects including multiple disciplines (ie. Brand, Ops, Supply Chain, Product Development). The goal is to lay out critical potential problems and drive the team to mitigation and resolution steps to buy down risks for project executions.
- Collaborating with other stakeholders to fully understand the failure mode and the appropriate corrective actions.
- Experience using statistical tools like ANOVA, Cpk, Ppk and SPC charts
- Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects, including scheduling and executing trials, writing trial and production qualification plans, and summarizing results with conclusions.
- Experience working in an industrial manufacturing environment in consumer products with knowledge of paper making or/and container board manufacturing and Converting.
- Experience executing quality processes (change management, CAPA/RCA, and continuous improvement) and in using quality information systems for managing product specifications.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in the identification of root causes and demonstrated skill in driving execution of corrective actions.
- Able to travel 50% of the time as dictated by business needs
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience working with or through supply chain, in a quality assurance department, in marketing, and/or portfolio management processes
- Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Experience engaging with product design and understanding how specifications are defined
- Experience with quality and statistical applications such as Minitab or Northwest Analytics (NWA) and /or reporting tools such as Tableau or Qlik.
- Project Management Certification (PMP)
- Six-Sigma Certification
For this role, we anticipate paying $120-160K per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. (add new language)
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf
Salary : $120,000 - $160,000
