Senior Manager Global Commercialization

Overview

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Senior Manager Global Commercialization to join our team located at our corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Responsibilities

Your Role: 

The Senior Manager Global Commercialization manages commercialization projects for the Reynolds businesses.  The scope can be from line extension to full development projects that can span domestic and international contract manufacturers.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Requires the ability and knowledge to string together multiple manufacturing paths, often with multiple Contract Manufacturers (CM’s), to deliver the desired product to the businesses. Must be able to craft and manage these complicated symbiotic relationships with both internal and external resources.
• Must be able to interact seamlessly with the marketing and business teams, with the ability to translate their needs into actionable steps to launch commercial products.
• Must be able to clearly and concisely communicate ideas, goals, and updates to stakeholders from different countries, backgrounds and levels.
• Leading very large teams (+20 members) to commercialize new products and line extensions.  Requires deep knowledge in all substrates, production processes and packaging to make our products.   The commercial teams’ focus includes a) movement of products to external manufacturing; b) new products; or c) line extensions.  These are for Cooking, Tableware, Waste & Storage, Presto, Canada and the International Businesses.  Requires expertise to work through various language barriers, cultures and time zones.
• Host weekly/monthly calls with the CM’s and a broad swath of Reynolds personnel to resolve issues and ensure clarity of communication and timing of project deliverables.  Is responsible for course correcting and finding solutions to resolve any issues or changes to production timing.  This includes the authority to authorize extra expenditures by the company to overcome project hurdles.
• Must be able to draw on strong project management skills to lead the team(s), and be able to discuss, convey and resolve, complicated manufacturing and/or compressed timelines to our CM’s around the world.
• Must be well-grounded with a deep understanding of our internal processes and steps required to move a product from concept all the way to the customer’s shelf.  This often will require very creative solutions as much of the process is outside our own manufacturing facilities.
• Must have ability to analyze and draw conclusions from multiple quotes and sources.  
• Must be able to interact with a very diverse Global Commercialization team that is involved and managing an extremely wide portfolio of manufacturing, business analytics and products, without being overwhelmed or bogged down with multiple priorities and projects.
• Able to operate in areas that are not well defined and have the confidence and creativity to build the path to operational success.

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

Qualifications

We need you to have: 

• BA/BS degree.
• 10-15+ years of related professional and progressive project management experience.
• 10-15+ years prior team management experience combined with a proven track record of developing, coaching and mentoring a diverse workforce.
• Expert in CPG products and key business drivers related to successful product development and launch.
• Deep knowledge of business systems related to project management (SAP item setup, artwork development, packaging development, etc.)
• Familiarity with various production equipment and testing methods.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills and the ability to communicate complicated subjects and influence at all levels within the organization.
• Strong sense of curiosity and desire to learn and teach.
• Extremely organized and a master of juggling multi-requests and inquiries and responding promptly with answers, updates, and information.
• Self-directed wit