Associate Manager Project Marketing

Title: Associate Commercial Project Portfolio Manager                    

Location: Hershey, PA

Summary:

Strategic leader of business-critical product portfolio initiatives and portfolio reviews by partnering with various cross-functional groups to support business priorities. 

• Responsibilities:
• Supports commercial portfolio reviews and acts as key partner point of contact for the respective portfolio leader (Sr Mgr / Mgr), in partnership with the portfolio operations team.  Provides expert analysis, mines insights, and recommends actions while delivering forward-looking project portfolio visibility and viability, financial assessment, and capacity indicators to drive prioritization and business decisions​. 10%
• Contributes to Stage-Gate process design across Types and Tiers for the assigned individual projects and participates in initiatives to continuously improve the Stage-Gate process, deliverables, Accolade system, and/or project portfolio management tools. 10%
• Provides critical leadership role in ensuring the successful development and execution of Medium / Low complexity projects for the commercialization of new and changing products/pack types, actively leading timelines, defining scope, managing resources, holding functions responsible for deliverables, and owning the budget, while requiring considerable coaching. 60%
• Accountable to deliver profitability and operational success by problem solving, removing roadblocks, elevating risks/issues, developing risk mitigation plans/contingencies, and facilitating decision making to drive projects forward through the stage gate process. 20%

Project management process expert - owns project execution and adherence to stage gate processes from project initiation (confirming correct project type & tier) through 1st delivery to the customer.

• Core Competencies:
• Portfolio and project management exposure (e.g. served as cross-functional team member or managed simple projects)
• Strong resource management and planning
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Process excellence and orientation
• Negotiation and influence
• Drives objective decision-making
• Strong skills in managing multiple priorities
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• SAP experience
• Intermediate to expert level Microsoft Project skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to make timely/sound decisions, and implement agreed upon solutions

Ability to work under pressure and be comfortable taking ownership of leading a team towards a quick resolution

• Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree required
• 2-5+ years of related work experience, preferably in CPG - Product Lifecycle Management
• PMP Certified preferred 
• Lean Six Sigma preferred

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