Global New Product Launch Lead

Soldejaneiro; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible hybrid work environment

Inclusive culture

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Sol de Janeiro, a global beauty brand based in New York, seeks a Senior Manager to lead enterprise commercialization governance for new product launches from concept through readiness. The role integrates product development, packaging, regulatory, creative, marketing, supply chain, and regional teams to ensure timely, compliant launches across markets.

The ideal candidate will manage cross-functional timelines, stage gates, and portfolio visibility while balancing speed and complexity in a

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience in new product development, commercialization, or project management within highly cross-functional organizations; beauty industry experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex global product launches across regulated international markets.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end product commercialization lifecycle from concept through launch execution.
• Experience managing integrated cross-functional timelines and coordinating complex stakeholder groups.
• Experience leading cross-functional governance forums, strategic meetings, and stage gate reviews.
• Familiarity with artwork development, packaging localization, translation workflows, and labeling compliance requirements.
• Experience partnering across Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Creative, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Commercial organizations.
• Strong understanding of stage gate processes, milestone governance, commercialization planning methodologies, and decision management frameworks.
• Experience managing complex dependencies, competing priorities, and multiple concurrent launch initiatives.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influence skills.
• Solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity, complexity, and changing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail with a consistent track record of delivering against timelines and commitments.
• Ability to identify risks proactively and drive cross-functional alignment around mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional launch governance forums and strategic meetings to drive alignment on priorities, risks, and launch readiness.
• Own integrated cross-functional timelines for multiple global product launches and ensure accurate dependencies are reflected.
• Coordinate with Marketing, Creative, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, and regional teams to align launch execution requirements.
• Partner with Supply Planning Launch Specialists to ensure operational feasibility inputs and capacity planning are incorporated.
• Drive governance around stage gates, readiness criteria, and commercialization handoffs to Supply Planning.
• Support continuous improvement of launch governance processes and tools to scale with growth.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Strategic thinking

Change management

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Outlook

Job description

Sol de Janeiro, a global beauty brand based in New York, seeks a Senior Manager to lead enterprise commercialization governance for new product launches from concept through readiness. The role integrates product development, packaging, regulatory, creative, marketing, supply chain, and regional teams to ensure timely, compliant launches across markets.

The ideal candidate will manage cross-functional timelines, stage gates, and portfolio visibility while balancing speed and complexity in a