Description:

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The Project Commercialization Manager is responsible for leading end to end commercialization of new products, product changes, and strategic initiatives from concept through successful market launch and post launch optimization. The role drives cross functional collaboration across supply chain, R&D, marketing, sales, finance, regulatory and operations teams to ensure timely, cost effective and compliant delivery of projects.

How you will contribute:

1. End to End Product Commercialization:

- Lead the full commercialization lifecycle for new products, packaging changes, product renovations, and strategic initiatives from early concept through successful market launch.

- Drive commercialization planning across multiple functions ensuring alignment with product strategy, brand positioning, pricing, and distribution plans.

2. Project Management & Execution:

- Lead projects from opportunity assessment through execution using structured project management frameworks and governance processes.

- Develop and maintain detailed project plans including scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.

- Track project progress, manage dependencies and ensure alignment

- Manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast paced environment while maintaining execution discipline.

3. Cross Functional Leadership:

Act as the central liaison between key business functions including:

- Marketing and Sales

- Research & Development

- Supply Chain (Procurement, Manufacturing, Planning, Logistics)

- Finance

- Regulatory and Quality

- Commercial Operations

- External partners and suppliers

- Others

- Drive alignment across stakeholders, ensure clarity of responsibilities and enable effective decision making across teams.

- Build strong working relationships across functions to accelerate project execution and ensure accountability.

4. Supply Chain & Operational Readiness:

- Partner with supply chain teams to ensure end to end operational readiness for product launches.

- Validate manufacturing capacity, production scheduling, inventory readiness, and distribution plans.

- Coordinate procurement, supplier readiness, raw material availability, and manufacturing capabilities to support project timelines.

- Ensure first production runs, plant readiness, packaging readiness, and distribution network alignment prior to launch.

- Identify operational risks and develop mitigation plans to avoid disruptions during commercialization.

5. Risk Management & Governance:

- Identify project risks, resource constraints, and operational challenges early in the project lifecycle.

- Develop mitigation plans, contingency strategies, and escalation mechanisms to manage risks effectively.

- Maintain visibility on project critical paths and proactively address bottlenecks.

- Ensure governance through stage gate processes, leadership reporting and compliance with internal policies and procedures.

6. Commercial Strategy & Business Planning:

- Support development of commercialization strategies including market positioning, pricing strategy, channel strategy, and product roadmap.

- Contribute to business planning, cost modelling, and financial evaluation of projects including ROI and profitability analysis.

- Support proposal development, commercial evaluations, contract negotiations, and vendor management where required.

- Ensure commercial models accurately reflect expected business outcomes and strategic objectives.

7. Stakeholder Communication & Leadership Reporting

- Lead regular cross functional project meetings to track progress and ensure alignment.

Provide clear and structured project updates to senior leadership including:

- Project timelines and milestones

- Critical path analysis

- Risk assessment and mitigation plans

- Financial and operational implications

- Communicate effectively across internal stakeholders, leadership teams, and external partners to ensure transparency and informed decision making.

8. Market Intelligence & Innovation:

- Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, consumer behavior and competitive landscape to identify new opportunities.

- Support innovation initiatives and product development strategies aligned with market needs.

- Leverage insights from market feedback and performance metrics to refine commercialization strategies and product offerings.