Product Commercialization Manager

permanent

Fully Remote

Only accepting applications from: United States

Own the timeline and delivery of the topicals innovation program and additional product development projects, ensuring each initiative meets scope, quality, timeline, and budget requirements.
Build and maintain project plans, critical paths, and milestone schedules from concept through commercialization for topicals initiatives.
Own stage-gate execution for topicals projects by coordinating kickoff, milestone, risk, and post-mortem reviews, and tracking decisions, owners, and next steps.
Identify and flag risks, dependencies, and blockers on topicals timelines to leadership before they impact in-market dates.
Track resourcing across teams supporting topicals innovation to inform prioritization.
Help maintain capacity views that flag bottlenecks specific to the topicals roadmap and support trade-off conversations with the Sr. Manager.
Support translation of the topicals strategic roadmap into a phased, resourced execution plan.
Track and communicate topicals project progress with clear, timely updates for the project team and cross-functional stakeholders.
Own the cadence of topicals status updates, readouts, and launch readiness reports.
Maintain a single source of truth for topicals project status, decisions, risks, and changes.
Use project management tools and platforms to run topicals projects.
Leverage AI-enabled tools and automation to support status reporting, risk detection, document generation, meeting summarization, and resource forecasting.
Contribute to dashboards and reporting that turn topicals project data into actionable insight on cycle time, on-time delivery, scope changes, and resource utilization.
Apply project management standards, templates, RACI models, and stage-gate playbooks established for the broader product development function.
Serve as the day-to-day operational partner for Topicals Innovation to Product Development & Marketing.
Partner with R&D, Creative, Regulatory, Clinical, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Sales, and external vendors/co-manufacturers to align topicals timelines and deliverables.
Support a culture of accountability, clarity, and forward momentum on the topicals project team.

Experience

Bachelor's degree required
3–5+ years of project or program management experience, ideally including cross-functional product development experience in a CPG, beauty, wellness, healthcare, or consumer goods environment
Familiarity with FDA, FTC, and regulatory considerations relevant to supplements, wellness, beauty, or healthcare product development is a plus
CAPM, PMP, or comparable certification a plus (not required)
Experience supporting or delivering multi-workstream product launches on time, on budget, and within scope
Working knowledge of PM tools (Asana, Smartsheet, Monday, Wrike, Airtable, Jira, MS Project, etc.)
Interest or experience in leveraging AI, automation, and productivity technologies to streamline workflows and reporting
Solid understanding of project planning, resource coordination, risk tracking, and budget tracking
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to keep projects moving in the face of ambiguity
Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work across both strategic and tactical stakeholders
Strong organizational skills
Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment