Director, Innovation & Commercialization Operations
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AG1CPG nutrition
Remote - USFull-TimeDirector
SalaryThe base salary range is $145,000 - $180,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years in CPG new product development, innovation operations, commercialization, or related cross-functional leadership
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementRisk Management
Requirements
- 10+ years in CPG new product development, innovation operations, commercialization, or related cross-functional leadership.
- Experience owning or materially redesigning a formal Stage Gate or comparable NPD governance framework.
- Experience launching physical consumer products.
- Understanding of formulation, regulatory and quality, packaging, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial interdependencies.
- Strong judgment in setting governance standards while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Experience leading decision forums and navigating cross-functional trade-offs.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority and implement change.
- Ability to turn complex workflows into practical operating routines.
- Strong integrated planning, risk management, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
- Experience facilitating executive gate decisions, setting and tracking approval conditions, and leading change control.
- Preferred: experience in mature CPG processes and high-growth entrepreneurial environments.
- Preferred: beverage or supplement category experience and retail, DTC, Amazon, or international launches.
- Preferred: PMP certification or equivalent formal training in project or program management methodologies.
- Preferred: familiarity with PLM, NPD portfolio tools, and process excellence methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and evolve the Stage Gate governance framework, including gate criteria, required evidence, decision rights, and escalation pathways.
- Lead decision-focused gate reviews and document approvals, conditions, owners, decisions, exceptions, and formal closure.
- Set standards for decisions locked at each gate and controls for material changes after approval.
- Integrate NPD plans across Product Development, Packaging, Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Marketing, Retail, DTC, and International.
- Establish critical-path plans, functional lead times, dependencies, handoffs, launch baselines, and forecasts.
- Coordinate commercialization requirements across formula and claims, packaging, artwork and labels, sourcing, master data, production, and channel launches.
- Define readiness expectations for manufacturing, inventory, retailer execution, and DTC launches, and evaluate deviations.
- Operationalize Stage Gate redesigns, simplify redundant requirements, and maintain a reliable system of record for decisions, deliverables, owners, milestones, and changes.
- Establish exception-handling frameworks and measures of process effectiveness, and train teams to drive adoption.
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