Reports to: VP of Supply Chain

Department: Product & Innovation

Location: This is a fully remote U.S.-based position. Candidates must reside and work in one of the following states due to tax and compliance requirements: AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MO, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, TX, VA, WA, WI, or WY.

FLSA Classification: Salaried, Exempt

Compensation: This position has geographic-based pay ranges. Final compensation and geographic tier placement are determined based on the candidate's primary work location, skills, experience, and qualifications.

Tier 1 (Higher Cost Markets): $114,000 - $130,000

Tier 2 (National Markets): $100,000 - $120,000

Tier 3 (Lower Cost Markets): $93,000 - $108,000
About the Opportunity

The Senior Commercialization Project Manager leads the cross-functional process that turns approved product ideas into coordinated, launch-ready realities across Paleovalley and Wild Pastures. Once an initiative is approved and prioritized for commercialization, you'll serve as the senior project leader connecting Product Development, Supply Chain, Quality & Regulatory, Creative, Marketing, Technology/eCommerce, Customer Service, Finance, and other partners to build a realistic path to market and keep it moving.

You'll own the commercialization operating process, integrated project plans, StageGate governance, and portfolio visibility, operating with substantial autonomy to surface risks, resolve complex issues, strengthen accountability, and recommend the best path forward. Functional teams retain ownership and decision-making authority for their areas of expertise and deliverables, while you ensure those pieces come together into a cohesive commercialization strategy and execution plan.
What You'll Do

• Lead complex, cross-functional commercialization initiatives for new products, product updates, packaging changes, and other innovation projects from approved concept through launch and closeout.
• Own integrated commercialization plans for each project, including master timelines, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, owners, risk profiles, and launch-readiness requirements.
• Own and continuously strengthen StageGate governance and cadence across the commercialization portfolio, ensuring required information, milestones, functional approvals, and decisions are in place before projects advance.
• Serve as a commercialization subject-matter resource and trusted partner to functional leaders, providing structure, guidance, and recommendations on complex project and process challenges.
• Facilitate commercialization and StageGate meetings, driving clear decisions, accountability, follow-through, and timely escalation across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Coordinate launch readiness across Product Development, manufacturing, inventory, packaging procurement, Quality & Regulatory, eCommerce, Customer Service, Marketing, Finance, and other functions while teams retain ownership of their respective work.
• Partner closely with Marketing Operations to align commercialization plans with the marketing launch plan, calendar, inventory readiness, creative dependencies, and launch timing.
• Maintain project risk registers and proactively assess complex risks, blockers, resource constraints, and trade-offs, independently driving resolution where appropriate and escalating material business decisions when needed.
• Evaluate cross-functional inputs and recommend whether projects should continue, pause, be re-scoped, postponed, accelerated, or reconsidered based on commercialization viability and business impact.
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility across commercialization initiatives, providing leadership with clear, decision-ready insights into project health, progress, risks, resource constraints, dependencies, and opportunities to reprioritize work.
• Drive go/no-go readiness by ensuring leaders and functional owners have the appropriate information, recommendations, approvals, and risk visibility required to make sound decisions.
• Identify and implement improvements to commercialization systems, workflows, StageGate criteria, templates, governance practices, and cross-functional ways of working to improve speed, clarity, and execution reliability.
• Lead commercialization retrospectives and translate lessons learned into scalable process improvements across future projects and the broader innovation portfolio.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor's degree in business, project management, operations, supply chain, or a related field preferred; additional relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 6+ years of progressive experience in project management, commercialization, new product development, product launch, or a related function, including independently leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading significant projects or programs with multiple functions, senior stakeholders, concurrent workstreams, competing priorities, and substantial business impact.
• Strong experience building and managing integrated project plans, critical paths, risk registers, dependencies, decision points, and executive-level status reporting.
• Experience owning or significantly contributing to structured commercialization, new product development, or StageGate processes.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with substantial autonomy, navigate ambiguity, and independently resolve complex project and cross-functional challenges.
• Strong business judgment and analytical thinking, with the ability to evaluate cross-functional inputs, assess implications and trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations to leadership.
• Strong ability to influence decisions, create accountability, challenge assumptions, and move work forward across teams and senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear risks, options, recommendations, and decisions for leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements that strengthen project execution, governance, and organizational effectiveness.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Google Workspace, or similar platforms.

Bonus Points

• Experience leading commercialization or new product launches within CPG, food and beverage, supplements, natural products, or another regulated consumer-products environment.
• Experience serving as a commercialization, StageGate, PMO, or project-management subject-matter resource.
• Familiarity with product development, packaging, manufacturing, supply chain, Quality & Regulatory, eCommerce, and consumer product launch processes.
• Experience designing or significantly improving StageGate, commercialization governance, portfolio-management, or cross-functional project-management processes.
• PMP or other relevant project/program management certification.
• A passion for real food, wellness, sustainability, regenerative agriculture, or nutrient-dense nutrition.

Our Commitment to You

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% employer-paid dental/vision and a small monthly medical premium for employees; dependents may be added at employee cost
• Generous Paid time off to support balance and rest
• Paid sick time for when you need it
• Six (6) paid holidays each year
• Paid parental leave for growing families
• 100% company-paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• 401(k) with up to a 4% company match after one year of service
• Monthly product stipend or access to perfectly imperfect damaged product so you can enjoy the nutrient-dense foods you help bring to others

This role is open until filled.

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