Product Commercialization Coordinator

Confidential Jobs; Bolton; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Jobs is seeking a Commercialization Specialist to drive product launches from development to full commercialization within a Private Label Food Manufacturing environment. Reporting to the VP Sales, you will manage cross-functional projects across QA, PD, Sales, Production and Supply Chain to meet customer timelines.

The role requires leading multi-site projects, ensuring packaging, regulatory, and production readiness, and delivering successful product introductions across multiple

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, business or project management.
• 3+ years experience managing projects from approved product through full commercialization.
• Food manufacturing experience preferred.
• Ability to independently lead and coordinate multi-locational projects.
• Excellent communication, leadership and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with commercialization for 3+ years in CPG is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams in the commercialization process, ensuring alignment with timelines and budgets.
• Develop and maintain project plans with milestones, resources and risk assessment.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain, QA, Sales and Production to meet customer deliverables.
• Ensure robust documentation for first production runs and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Problem solving

Change leadership

Multi-location coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in food science, business or project management

Job description

We are a mid-size food manufacturing company.

Salary: $60k to 75k

Position Summary

Commercialization Specialist that can you successfully manage all projects from approved development state through to full commercialization within a Private Label Food Manufacturing Environment. Primarily responsible to ensure a successful launch of products into the market while meeting company and customer objectives and needs.

We are looking for an experienced Commercialization Specialist. Reporting to the VP Sales, this leader will be a member of the management team and will be accountable for full project management cross functionally for all new commercialized products driven by our rapid growth agenda. This is for a business unit with multiple product categories and several product skus.

The Specialist will be a change leader, and they will lead the entire Commercialization phase for all New Product Development as well as any packaging changes. Ensuring there are robust processes to ensure proper packaging, regulatory requirements, Supply Chain ingredients and specifications as well as Production Plant Trials and First Production Runs are all delivered on time to ensure successful launch meeting customers timelines.

The key priorities for this role include

• Full project mapping and follow through on all commercialized product launches.
• Working closely with several internal departments to ensure deliverables for customer are met (QA, PD, Sales, Production, Supply Chain).
• Managing the process of bringing new food products from the development stage to commercialization.

Project Management:

• Lead cross-functional teams in the commercialization process, ensuring alignment with project timelines, budgets and goals.
• Develop and maintain project plans, including key milestones, resource allocation, and risk assessment.

Supply Chain Coordination:

• Work closely with all supply chain and procurement teams to ensure sourcing raw material and packaging to ensure deliverable timelines.

Quality Assurance Coordination:

• Work closely with quality control to ensure all quality measures are documented for first production runs and throughout the commercialization process, including sensory evaluation and shelf-life studies as per each customer requirement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, business or project management
• 3+ year experience in managing projects from approved product through full commercialization process.
• Food Manufacturing experience is highly preferred.
• Ability to independently lead and co-ordinate multi-locational projects
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with commercialization for 3+ years in CPG is required.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and are dedicated to a fair and accessible hiring process. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Notice to Applicants: This posting represents an active vacancy. AI-enabled recruitment tools may be used to assist with parts of the applicant screening process, but all evaluations and hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.