Temporary Project Manager

OLLY PBC is a consumer packaged goods company seeking a Temporary Project Manager to drive new product commercialization and optimize its existing product portfolio. The role leads cross-functional projects, manages product changes and launches, conducts financial analysis, and coordinates internal and external partners to meet timeline, cost, quality, and business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional project teams in the development and commercialization of products – ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget and on-strategy. Create project plans that seamlessly integrate workstreams between all Product Development, Operations, Creative, Marketing and Sales processes and functions
• Conduct ad hoc financial/scenario analysis to support product launches
• Lead stage gate presentations with our company's Leadership Team to make go-forward decisions on product launches
• Manage product changes by guiding decision making on project scope (hard versus soft conversions, budget allocation for obsoletes, transition window and communication plan to retailers), creating project schedules and liaising with Operations to ensure a seamless transition
• Interface with both internal and external partners; remove barriers by pre-emptively identifying and mitigatingproject risks
• Manage BOM setup process for product launches alongside master data manager

Requirements:

• 5-7 years of experience in project management or new product innovation at a CPG company
• Proven experience leading and managing project teams in a highly collaborative and fast-paced business environment
• In depth knowledge of Project Management fundamentals and best practices
• Dynamic problem solver - comfortable challenging assumptions and offering solutions within complete information
• Transparent, open communicator - great listener who can read between the lines
• Ability to balance competing interests and ensure all objectives across multiple projects are met in a timely manner
• Highly organized, detail oriented and self-motivated
• Great technical prowess - Excel and other MS Office products, expertise with Gantt Charts and either Wrike or similar project management software tools (Asana, Microsoft Project, etc.), background and strong interest in process development and project management principles
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship