Key skills
Business Model DevelopmentFront-End Innovation FrameworksDesign ThinkingAgile MethodologiesConsumer Packaged Goods (CPG) InnovationCPG Product LifecycleRegulatory ComplianceQuality ComplianceHybrid PMO ModelsStage Gate ProcessesData ProficiencyBenchmark TrackingProject ManagementAgileLeadershipCommunication
About this role
Altria is committed to innovation and is seeking a Growth Product Manager to lead Front-End Innovation Pods. This role focuses on driving execution, enhancing cross-functional alignment, and ensuring effective delivery of innovation initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Leading FEI Pod setup and launch: Defining scope, roles, sprint structure, and deliverables while aligning Pods to business priorities
- Driving execution rigor: Lead standups and sprint reviews with clear priorities, progress tracking, and issue resolution
- Ensuring delivery against timelines: Removing barriers and maintaining focus on learning goals and execution commitments
- Assembling and translating Pod findings: Build and evolve the FEI playbook to scale knowledge and embed improvements
- Strengthening cross-functional alignment: Enhancing governance guardrails while maintaining agility and connection to commercialization processes
- Defining and tracking essential indicators: Providing clear updates to leadership on performance, risks, and outcomes
- Driving accountability for commitments: Ensuring teams deliver against expectations with clarity and rigor
- Building FEI capabilities: Maturing ways of working and adapting processes as the model evolves
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required
- 8+ years of project management experience with a strong technical/commercial foundation
- Knowledge of business model development and cross-functional roles in breakthrough innovation
- Expertise in front-end innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Agile methodologies
- Shown success developing CPG innovations and leading cross-functional teams
- Strong ability to lead up, across, and down within sophisticated project and sprint environments
- Knowledge of the CPG product lifecycle, including regulatory and quality compliance
- Experience embedding agile or hybrid PMO models in matrixed organizations
- Proficiency in Stage Gate processes with experience crafting critical questions and testing hypotheses
- Data proficiency and benchmark tracking capability for early-stage innovation
- Strong communication and facilitation skills to align partners and drive decisions
- Master's degree preferred