New Product Commercialization Program Manager

• Manage the commercialization project pipeline, including intake, prioritization, planning, governance, and execution in alignment with business objectives.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Establish project governance, roles, decision rights, meeting cadences, and reporting routines to maintain visibility and accountability.
• Maintain cross-functional visibility to project status and progress, key milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and critical decisions.
• Monitor project progression status and proactively escalate schedule, scope, resource, and execution risks with clear recommendations and action plan.
• Ensure project changes are evaluated, documented, communicated, and managed through appropriate change-control processes.

• Implement and maintain standardized project management processes, tools, templates, reporting, and governance practices across the commercialization portfolio.
• Identify execution gaps and opportunities to improve project management, decision-making, accountability, and overall PMO effectiveness.
• Maintain accurate project data and reporting to support prioritization, resource planning, and leadership decision-making.

• Drive projects from commercialization initiation through scale-up and launch, ensuring deliverables and milestones remain aligned with approved objectives.
• Hold cross-functional teams accountable for commitments, deliverables, milestones, and agreed-upon actions.
• Anticipate execution risks, develop mitigation plans, and proactively address obstacles before they impact project outcomes.
• Ensure commercialization initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and against defined business objectives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Food Science and Technology, or a related field. PMP Certification is a plus.
• 7+ years of program/project management experience, within Food industry, preferably in Ingredient Industry.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong project and program management capabilities, including planning, prioritization, governance, risk management and execution across complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to drive alignment, build trust, and hold cross-functional teams accountable without direct authority.
• Adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment, with the ability to support adoption of new processes and ways of working.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and project management tools used for scheduling, reporting, and collaboration, and project tracking.
• Experience coordinating master data setup and maintenance for new product commercialization, including product, material, packaging, customer, supplier, and related operational data.
• Understanding of ERP and master data processes, including cross-functional dependencies across Commercialization, Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and Finance. 
• Build people capability through effective employee relations, hiring, training, and communication for front-line hourly and salaried personnel and provide opportunities for career development

Vibrant Ingredients is an industry-leading taste and functional performance ingredient provider dedicated to “improving the food we eat by creating real ingredients from nature that work”. Vibrant Ingredient's plant-based food and beverage ingredients are designed to deliver flavorful and functional solutions that delight our customers and consumers.  A commitment to Real, Simple, Better™ drives our innovation team to discover new on trend solutions. State-of-the-art facilities and customer application centers are strategically located throughout the USA, making customer collaboration simple. Vibrant Ingredients is committed to positively contributing to long-term socioeconomic development, sustainable and ethical business practices, and creating a beneficial and respectful environment for its employees, customers, suppliers, and community. Vibrant Ingredients is privately owned by Ardian and MidOcean Capital and is headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida. For more information, visit www.floridafood.com 

As an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, Veteran or disability status.