Product Launch & Commercialization Lead

Finlays Solutions; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Finlays Solutions in San Antonio, TX is seeking a Commercialization Specialist to drive plant trials, scale-up, and product launches. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across R&D, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain and Quality to ensure on‑time delivery and launch readiness.

You will organize documentation, manage timelines, and communicate with customers, while maintaining best practices and continuously improving internal processes to support growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Food Science, Operations, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Guide commercialization efforts for new products and packaging, ensuring launch readiness and excellence.
• Manage day‑to‑day execution of assigned commercialization projects, ensuring alignment with timelines, deliverables, and customer expectations.
• Facilitate cross‑functional communication across R&D, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, and Technical Services.
• Organize project documents, checklists, timelines, and shared folders in approved platforms.
• Lead meetings and required working sessions for product development and commercialization activities.
• Ensure adherence to commercialization best practices and support ongoing improvements to internal processes.
• Track and maintain commercialization pipeline status, flagging risks or delays to team.
• Coordinate and support execution of plant trials or pilot runs at manufacturing facilities.
• Partner with sales teams to support customer communication and accurate project updates. Complete and submit commercial reports on time.
• Champion Finlays’ purpose and values, develop team capabilities and processes and partner across the organization to deliver dependent projects.
• Manage expenses and travel budget
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Project management

Communication

Organizational skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Food Science, Operations, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Finlays Solutions in San Antonio, TX is seeking a Commercialization Specialist to drive plant trials, scale-up, and product launches. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across R&D, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain and Quality to ensure on‑time delivery and launch readiness.

You will organize documentation, manage timelines, and communicate with customers, while maintaining best practices and continuously improving internal processes to support growth.