• Location:   Lynn, MA
• Position Type:   Full-Time

The Senior Project Manager will provide leadership to the Project Management team as well as specific business channels. This individual will manage the New Product Stage- Gate process throughout all Kettle Cuisine sites, enabling effective project execution.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end project lifecycle for new product introduction and product modifications, initiation through commercialization.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and success criteria to ensure successful launches.
• Develop and execute comprehensive project plans and timelines, ensuring alignment with overall business goals and strategic priorities.
• Proactively identify risks and issues throughout the project; working with cross-functional stakeholders to mitigate.
• Work with senior leaders to determine and disseminate prioritization of active projects within assigned business channel.
• Lead cross-functional project meetings, providing clear direction, facilitating decision-making, assigning follow-ups, and driving accountability among team members.
• Prepare weekly project progress reports, highlighting outstanding tasks, risks to timeline and other hurdles for senior leadership.
• Demonstrate responsible and professional business leadership, holding cross-functional team members accountable for deliverable deadlines.
• Assist with the development, implementation and improvements of processes and procedures, ensuring best practices as it relates to the project management of new product introductions and product changes.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in any relevant field, preferably with a science/ business/ technical background
• Broad knowledge of food production industry preferred.
• 7+ years of project management, experience in food product development is a plus!
• Proficient in project management tools (Asana), CRM software (Salesforce) and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)and Microsoft Teams.
• Ability to lead cross-functional groups while managing their own agenda in a fast- paced environment.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams and drive collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Previous experience managing accuracy of data, data entry, and document/record management required. 
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve through collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Conscientious, accurate, detail oriented, organized team player
• Ability to quickly learn new systems/processes.
• Willing to learn and accept changing priorities - Adept at meeting deadlines.

Desired Skills

• Self-starter able to conceptualize and drive initiatives forward. 
• Motivated by contributing to the overall success of the team. 
• Ability to prioritize long and short-term projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Independent, flexible, and creative team player
• Obsessive attention to detail
• Passionate about food 

 

Responsibility

• Works with little supervision; work is often not reviewed. Exercises discretion within area of responsibility.
• Recommends actions and alternatives to supervisor and others.
• Coach and Mentor other Project Managers; this individual may have direct reports.
• Position makes an indirect contribution to efforts that generate moderate levels of revenue. 
• Decisions or actions may have a moderate impact on other departments and/or external relationships of the organization. Errors are usually detected through routine verification/ review but may result in some workflow disruption or repetition of work.

 

Salary Range:  $90,000 - 100k USD Annually (negotiable DOE)

Americans with Disabilities Act

Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.

Core Values

Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in its people, products and reputation. Each employee is expected to understand and live our Core Values every day.

Honor Food – We create and produce the best tasting, safest, all natural recipes that strive for perfection in every batch, from bench to kettle

Honor Each Other – We seek to develop trusting, respectful and mutually rewarding relationships with all our team members and business partners

Honor Development – We recognize and nurture each other’s talents, strengths and interests in order to further strengthen and grow our team

Honor Innovation – We continually strive for creative and sustainable ways to achieve excellence

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