• Lead end-to-end commercialization for new products, packaging changes, product renovations, innovations, and other high-impact initiatives, ensuring readiness for launch across customer channels.
• Own launch timelines and coordinate launch plans with marketing and sales, ensuring alignment with brand strategy, positioning, pricing, and supply chain requirements.
• Lead projects from early assessment through execution using established project management and Run–Improve–Transform processes; develop project plans, milestones, deliverables, and timelines.
• Lead stage-gate meetings and status reviews; identify and mitigate risks, issues, bottlenecks, and dependencies, while maintaining clear project documentation and governance compliance.
• Provide visibility into test and start-up budgets, spending, and project status to support timely decision-making and accountability.
• Partner with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, planning, and other supply chain teams to confirm material availability, production capacity, scheduling, first production runs, inventory plans, distribution readiness, and operational risk mitigation.
• Support inventory and distribution planning for finished and semi-finished products across dry and temperature-controlled networks to achieve service targets within cost parameters, using enterprise resource planning and analytical tools.
• Act as the central liaison across research and development, marketing, sales, finance, compliance, and supply chain; mentor junior team members, standardize processes and systems, and champion scalable continuous-improvement solutions.
• Champion Run–Improve–Transform frameworks within the PMO organization.