Director, Innovation & Commercialization Operations
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JobgetherConsumer health
Based in the United States; Fully remote work environment within the United States.Full-TimeDirector
SalaryBase salary range of $145,000–$180,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 10 years of experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) new product development, innovation operations, commercialization, or related cross-functional leadership.
- Required Skills
- Risk Management
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in CPG new product development, innovation operations, commercialization, or related cross-functional leadership.
- Own or substantially redesign a formal Stage Gate or comparable new product development governance framework; gate-meeting participation alone is not sufficient.
- Demonstrate experience launching physical consumer products.
- Understand interdependencies among formulation, regulatory and quality requirements, packaging, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial execution.
- Demonstrate judgment in establishing governance standards without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Have experience leading decision-making forums and navigating complex cross-functional trade-offs.
- Influence senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority and implement organizational change.
- Translate complex workflows into practical, repeatable operating processes.
- Bring integrated planning, risk management, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
- Facilitate executive gate decisions, define and track approval conditions, and manage change control.
- Experience in food, beverage, or nutritional products is strongly relevant.
- Preferred: experience in established CPG and high-growth entrepreneurial organizations, or beverage or supplement categories.
- Preferred: familiarity with retail, DTC, Amazon, and international product launches.
- Preferred: PMP certification or equivalent formal project or program management training.
- Preferred: familiarity with PLM systems, new product development portfolio tools, and process excellence methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and continuously improve the enterprise Stage Gate governance framework.
- Establish gate criteria, required evidence, decision rights, escalation pathways, and approval controls.
- Lead gate reviews and document decisions, conditions, owners, exceptions, and gate closure.
- Integrate new product development plans across product, packaging, procurement, supply chain, quality, regulatory, finance, marketing, retail, DTC, and international teams.
- Establish critical-path plans, lead times, dependencies, handoffs, launch baselines, and forecasts.
- Coordinate commercialization readiness across formulation, claims, packaging, artwork, labeling, sourcing, master data, production, and channel launches.
- Evaluate and communicate the schedule, cost, and execution implications of deviations and late-stage changes.
- Operationalize Stage Gate improvements and simplify duplicative requirements while preserving essential controls.
- Establish a system of record and monitor process-effectiveness measures, including gate closure, rework, and launch readiness.
- Train teams, communicate process expectations, and drive consistent adoption.
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