Job Summary
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Commercial Manager to oversee and coordinate all aspects of our commercial operations. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, excellent communication abilities, and a comprehensive understanding of retail management, sales strategies, and team supervision. This role involves developing business opportunities, managing client relationships, and ensuring the achievement of sales targets while maintaining high standards of customer service. The Commercial Manager will play a pivotal role in driving revenue growth and operational efficiency across multiple store locations.
Duties
- Responsibilities:
- Manage cross-functional project teams in the development and commercialization of products - ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and on-strategy.
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Qualifications
· Self-motivated, high energy that can easily function in a nimble environment
- Strong project and influence management skills
- Highly collaborative style with the ability to surface and resolve conflict within a cross-functional team
- Strong problem-solving abilities
- Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently with attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills – both formal and informal with the ability to communicate within all levels of the organization.
· Dynamic problem solver - comfortable challenging assumptions and offering solutions with incomplete information
· High levels of ownership and accountability
· Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
· Ability to create flexible strategies and adapt quickly to changing business environment
· Results focused - Bias towards action, able to synthesize multiple pieces of information and act decisively
· Highly organized and detail oriented
· Ability to balance competing interests and ensure all objectives across multiple projects are met in a timely manner
Education and Experience
· Bachelor's degree in relevant field
· At least three years of project management experience, food or broader CPG experience preferred.
· Proven experience leading and managing project teams in a highly collaborative and fast paced business environment
· PMP, or comparable project management certifications is a plus
· MS Excel and PowerPoint Skills Required, MS Project or comparable software experience is a plus
- Create project plans that seamlessly integrate workstreams between R&D, Operations Supply Chain, Marketing and Sales processes and functions.
- Lead communication on all project matters, including proactive outreach to gather and clarify scope, timelines, issues, and risks, and effectively disseminate this information across multiple management levels for decision-making and escalation of critical risks/issues.
- Lead milestone presentations with the Leadership Team to make go-forward decisions on product launches.
- Identifies and manages project risks, issues, and dependencies, and develops risk mitigation and contingency plans as needed.
- Develop understanding of current processes and create new, more robust, processes over time to formalize project approval and communicate customer requests, project timelines, success criteria, issues, risks, opportunities, and assumptions to the project team, sales, and organization leadership
- Facilitate understanding of customer requirements to assist in ensuring project and product objectives are aligned with processing design and manufacturing capability
- Escalate issues and risks and drive to solutions.
- Conduct post-launch reviews, as appropriate, to drive continuous improvement of processes. Implementing enhancements that support an effective, nimble, and responsive organization.
- Provide visibility and gain alignment to project timelines across the organization.
- Proactively build strong and trusted working relationships with internal and external stakeholders that encourages creativity and collaboration.
- Hold cross functional team members accountable for delivering tasks on time.
- Lead project team meetings and facilitates effective communication and coordination among project team members.
- Perform other duties as determined.
Pay: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
