Are you ready to make an impact? Are you ready to take on a career that provides a platform to grow yourself and your career? Come join us at our food manufacturing plant in Phoenix, AZ where you can be part of a growing company, excel in your career path or start your career in food Manufacturing.
It is an exciting time to join SunTree Snack Foods where we source, produce and package private label nut, seeds, dried fruit snacks, mixes and confections. SunTree’s private label products have nationwide distribution in the grocery, club and mass channels.
You will be proud to see products you produce here while you shop for your Snacks.
Job Title: Commercialization Manager
Department: Consumer Centre of Excellence (CCOE)
Reports To: NPD Manager
Creation Date: May 2024
Review Date: July 2024
Overview:The Commercialization Manager role is focused on supporting our New Product Development (NPD) process. The position plays a critical role in ensuring projects stay on track from start through to completion and are executed with excellence. The Commercialization Manager represents the Consumer Center of Excellence (CCOE) at the US Phoenix facility, and in conjunction with the CCOE has final decision rights with regards to approval of new product trials at the Phoenix manufacturing facility. The Commercialization Manager is accountable for collaborating with Operations and Supply Chain to ensure effective execution of new product trials and delivering information to the NPD Manager to ensure timely data integrity of master NPD project pipeline schedules.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
· Validate product profiles to ensure complete specs: recipe steps/packaging/label/commodity Lot #’s/label info/packaging/product data.
· In consultation with operations define new product run scheduling and NPD product run prioritization.
· Coordinate and collaborate with QA and operations to ensure the correct commodities and lot #’s are onsite and available as per defined trial line schedules.
· Execute product trial accountabilities and have final decision-making accountability associated with sampling timing during run (beginning/middle/end based)/product sensory/visual inspection/taste/smell testing/seasoning accuracy verse trial samples.
· Support NPD packaging team by executing fill rate tests and making die line decisions related to packaging alternatives.
· Support NPD regulatory team by executing physical testing of new product opportunities to ensure serving size and product weights align with product NFT claims.
· Partner with Procurement to ensure correct commodity specs and commodity delivery to ensure effective first trial execution.
· Ensure any required customer Certificate of Analysis (C of A) is completed and shipped to customers with all new sku’s.
· Execute all data, information, and reporting requirements associated with assigned new products and new product trials associated with pipeline to ensure Master Project Schedule integrity (status reporting/timing/data set up/artwork/recipes).
· Through collaboration, influence, real time communication, and negotiation with key internal stakeholders (NPD/Operations/Supply Chain/Packaging/Regulatory/Commercial/Quality Assurance/Procurement) deliver and meet the new product pipeline requirements as per master NPD Project schedule.
Experience, Qualifications, and Educational Requirements:
· College diploma/University degree in business, food safety, project management, quality assurance related disciplines.
· 2-3 years demonstrated project management experience managing cross functional teams within a manufacturing environment.
· Proven partnering, influencing, coordination communication skills focused on enabling executional excellence within multidisciplinary internal teams.
· Technical experience associated with understanding new product regulatory and packaging requirements.
· Demonstrated attention to detail ability to independently organize, prioritize, measure, and manage projects and tasks.
· Strong work ethic and positive team attitude. Able to build and maintain lasting relationships with other departments and key business partners.
· Comfortable and confident being a single point of contact where direct manager is geographically dispersed.
· Must have exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, across and within local and geographically dispersed teams.
· Passion for following food trends and exploring diverse cultural food recipes.
Accountabilities for Success:
· Collaborate and partner with others through actively building positive and productive relationships, working to understand different viewpoints, and treating people of varying backgrounds and perspectives fairly.
· Communicate ideas and information in an effective manner by listening, demonstrating understanding, readily sharing information, and keeping appropriate parties up to date.
· Take initiative to understand and produce results aligned to department priorities and accept responsibility for performance and results.
· Identify causes of problems and develop solutions to make effective, timely decisions.
· Demonstrate an understanding of how individual decisions and actions impact the needs of the department as well as overall corporate goals.
Physical Effort:
· May sit, stand, reach, bend, pivot, turn stoop while performing tasks.
· May sit, stand at a desk or computer for extended periods of time.
· Must be able to lift, push and or carry up to twenty pounds.
Work Environment:
· This is an onsite role working within the SunTree manufacturing facility.
· Regularly exposed to allergens such as peanuts, tree nuts, sulphites, soya, dairy, egg, gluten and sesame.
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· Required to work within the Production facility. Production facility may incur extreme temperature variation and other hazards as incurred in the food manufacturing and packaging process.
· May be exposed to loud noise from moving forklifts and production equipment. Requires wearing PPI gear like company provided hairnet/beard net/safety cap, ear plugs while in the production area and warehouse facilities.
· Workspace is in a facility where nuts, fruits and other allergens are present.
· This job description is not intended to be all inclusive
· Employees may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
SunTree Snack Foods is an equal opportunity employer that values workforce diversity. Diversity is core to our business: by embedding diversity into all aspects of our culture, we maximize the opportunity to achieve sustainable business success and growth. SunTree Snack Foods provides equal opportunities in employment, promotions, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment to all qualified persons without regard to race, national or ethnic origin, color, marital status, veteran, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristics protected by the applicable Federal and State laws.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $95,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Shift:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Morning shift
Education:
Experience:
- Project management: 3 years (Required)
- Food Manufacturing: 3 years (Preferred)
- JD Edwards / ERP Systems: 2 years (Preferred)
- Commercialization specialist or Managment: 3 years (Required)
- New food Product development and Project Managment: 3 years (Required)
- Microsoft Office: 3 years (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Phoenix, AZ 85031: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
