Job Purpose Support profitable business growth with key customers by managing and successfully delivering new product development (NPD) projects. Lead cross-functional teams to develop projects that meet customers’ expectations and ensure projects are commercialized on time and in full. Essential Functions • Deliver customer-driven NPD projects for key customers on time and in full • Align with Sales and R&D on clear project briefs and understand the customer’s NPD process and milestones to ensure their expectations are met • Create and manage project timelines, lead team meetings, identify resource requirements, set expectations, assign tasks and responsibilities, follow up, and track/report progress • Lead cross-functional project team through NPD process and ensure adherence to key milestones and overall timeline • Create and maintain comprehensive and up-to-date project documentation • Identify, mitigate, and escalate risks to the achievement of project milestones as required • Conduct post-mortem analysis for key projects to identify root cause of successful/unsuccessful project execution • Understand our business, our key customers’ business, and the competitive environment and encourage strategic insight-driven NPD • Attend and support customer calls, meetings, presentations, and ideation sessions as needed • Support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cross-functional processes and ways of working • Support food safety program, quality standards, and legality of manufactured products • Perform other job-related duties as assigned Qualifications (Education, Experience, Competencies) • Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in project/business management, marketing, or related discipline preferred • 5+ years of experience managing complex new product development projects • Project management certification preferred • B2B or B2C food industry experience preferred • Understanding of basic revenue and pricing models, and profit and loss • Working knowledge of project management tools/software • Proficient with Microsoft Office • Self-motivated leader with a collaborative and positive attitude • Demonstrated ability to influence, engage, and motivate cross-functional teams • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in customer-facing and internal situations • Ability to relate and connect the product, consumer, and competitors • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail • Proven ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects concurrently • Ability to deal with ambiguity and work effectively under pressure