Innovation Project Manager

Short Intro and About the Job

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As an Innovation Project Manager, you will lead the planning and execution of innovation, renovation, and roll-out projects, driving ideas from concept through commercialization. You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver successful launches, ensuring projects meet business objectives, market timelines, quality standards, cost targets, and customer expectations, while achieving seamless on-time delivery to market.

About You

As an IPRO Manager, you will be doing the following:

• Lead the end-to-end planning, evaluation, and execution of multiple innovation, renovation, and roll-out projects with a high level of ownership.
• Assess project feasibility by evaluating technical, operational, financial, timeline, customer service, and risk considerations, while defining clear launch success criteria.
• Develop and manage project plans, including resource allocation, timelines, risk mitigation strategies, and cross-functional decision points.
• Drive alignment and integration of project activities across functions, teams, and sites to ensure seamless execution.
• Lead cross-functional commercialization teams, managing project scope, cost, timing, quality, and issue resolution to achieve successful launches.
• Facilitate project governance and communication, supporting key business decisions and stakeholder alignment.
• Monitor project financials, risks, performance metrics, and post-launch evaluations, ensuring continuous improvement and corrective actions when needed.
• Leverage project management tools, processes, and supply chain/business expertise to deliver projects on time and meet customer expectations.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and reporting within project management systems.
• Coach, train, and oversee project coordinators or activity managers when required.

About Us, We offer and What's next

To be able to achieve the above and be successful in this role we believe you need to have:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• 4-5 years of project management experience, preferably in FMCGs
• Strong Business Acumen
• Ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels
• PMP Certification (ideally already certified, or committed to obtain certification in the role), certification in Agile project management a plus