NPD & Innovation Project Manager

Australian Vintage; Mildura; On-site; AUD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday leave

Job summary

Australian Vintage in Mildura seeks an Innovation Project Manager to cover a 14-month parental leave, driving wine NPD from concept to launch. You’ll coordinate people, suppliers, timelines and costs, and report progress across teams.

We’ll teach you the wine side; you bring strong project management, stakeholder collaboration, and a practical, problem-solving mindset. Collaboration with our UK team across time zones is required.

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience with multiple stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management and communication across teams
• Highly organised with attention to detail and big-picture thinking
• Solutions-focused problem solving
• Commercial awareness with costs, timelines and suppliers
• Excel and PowerPoint proficiency

Responsibilities

• Manage wine NPD projects from concept through to launch, keeping projects on track, on brief and commercially sound
• Own project plans, timelines, actions, dependencies and key milestones
• Lead NPD governance, production meetings and gate reviews, ensuring progress and reporting are clear and up to date
• Coordinate stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, Winemaking, Production and Procurement, keeping everyone aligned on priorities and deliverables
• Manage external suppliers and partners, including quotes, sampling, timelines and delivery
• Identify risks and roadblocks early and work with the right people to resolve them
• Support supplier and manufacturing partner onboarding, as well as cost-out and efficiency initiatives
• Coordinate product deletions, maintain the Australian Vintage SKU list and work with our UK team through regular global calls

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Organization

Problem solving

Commercial awareness

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Australian Vintage in Mildura seeks an Innovation Project Manager to cover a 14-month parental leave, driving wine NPD from concept to launch. You’ll coordinate people, suppliers, timelines and costs, and report progress across teams.

We’ll teach you the wine side; you bring strong project management, stakeholder collaboration, and a practical, problem-solving mindset. Collaboration with our UK team across time zones is required.