Project Manager, Commercialization

Title: Project Manager, Commercialization Location: New York Metropolitan - Hybrid

What You’ll Do

The Project Manager, Commercialization independently manages a portfolio of product initiatives from project kickoff through Commercialization Readiness. This role converts business priorities into clear project plans, aligned timelines, accountable actions, and executable launch decisions.

The Project Manager serves as the day-to-day cross-functional leader across Product & Innovation, Marketing, Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Commercial, and regional market teams.

This role is accountable for maintaining project momentum, anticipating risks, driving decisions, and ensuring teams remain aligned against key milestones and business commitments. The Project Manager applies consistent governance and operational rigor while adapting to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

This position reports into the Commercialization organization and contributes to stronger, more scalable commercialization practices.

What You’ll Be Working On

Independent Portfolio Ownership

• Independently manage a defined portfolio of commercialization projects from kickoff through Commercialization Readiness.
• Build, maintain, and communicate integrated cross-functional project timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Translate business priorities into clear project plans with defined ownership, timing, and decision requirements.
• Own the day-to-day project cadence, stakeholder communication, follow-up, and escalation process.
• Maintain accurate visibility to project status, critical-path activities, open decisions, and readiness.
• Balance multiple concurrent projects and changing priorities while protecting key business commitments.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead recurring project meetings and working sessions that drive alignment, accountability, and timely execution.
• Coordinate across Marketing, Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Commercial, and regional teams.
• Clarify roles, actions, decisions, and due dates so teams understand what is required to move projects forward.
• Facilitate productive discussions around project trade-offs, dependencies, timing, and execution options.
• Document decisions and ensure agreed actions are completed or appropriately escalated.
• Build strong working relationships and influence results without relying on direct authority.

Proactive Risk Management

• Identify project risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies early in the commercialization process.
• Maintain clear risk and decision tracking, including owners, mitigation plans, timing, and business impact.
• Bring the right stakeholders together to resolve issues before they affect launch timing, production, inventory, cost, regulatory readiness, or commercial commitments.
• Escalate unresolved risks with clear context, options, recommendations, and required decisions.
• Monitor changes to scope, timing, cost, or technical requirements and assess downstream impact across the project plan.
• Maintain transparency so leadership and project teams have an accurate view of project health and priority risks.

Operational Rigor & Commercialization Readiness

• Apply commercialization governance, stage-gate requirements, and readiness criteria consistently across assigned projects.
• Prepare and facilitate key milestone reviews, stage gates, and Commercialization Readiness discussions.
• Ensure required deliverables, approvals, decisions, and operational inputs are completed before projects progress.
• Partner with Supply Planning and Manufacturing to incorporate capacity, production lead times, sourcing requirements, and operational constraints into project plans.
• Maintain organized project documentation, action logs, decision records, and status reporting.
• Support a disciplined handoff into operational execution while maintaining communication through launch stabilization.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify recurring execution gaps, process inefficiencies, and opportunities to simplify commercialization ways of working.
• Apply standard tools, templates, reporting, and governance practices across the portfolio.
• Capture lessons learned and share practical recommendations that improve future project execution.
• Support improvements to project management tools, stage-gate processes, readiness criteria, and portfolio reporting.
• Help strengthen transparency, accountability, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration across commercialization.

Must Haves

• 5-7 years of experience in commercialization, new product development, project management, program management, product innovation, supply chain, or a related cross-functional role.
• Experience independently managing multiple concurrent projects within a fast-paced, highly cross-functional organization.
• Beauty, cosmetics, personal care, consumer products, or related industry experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end product commercialization lifecycle from concept through readiness and launch execution.
• Experience building and managing integrated project timelines, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Experience leading cross-functional meetings, stage gates, readiness reviews, and decision-making discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks early, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues clearly.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Clear and concise communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and maintain momentum through changing priorities.
• Solutions-oriented mindset with sound judgment and a strong sense of accountability.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and web-based project or portfolio management tools.

Core Measures of Success

• Assigned portfolio is managed with clear ownership, accurate timelines, and consistent visibility.
• Cross-functional teams understand priorities, decisions, dependencies, and required actions.
• Risks are identified early and resolved or escalated before they affect business commitments.
• Projects meet commercialization readiness requirements before transitioning into operational execution.
• Governance, documentation, and reporting are consistent, practical, and decision-oriented.
• Lessons learned are translated into stronger processes and more efficient ways of working.

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