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About the Role

This role leads the commercialization portfolio for ingredient and packaging changes, regulatory initiatives, business continuity, and international expansion. It establishes project priorities, commercialization strategies, and governance frameworks, ensuring successful execution across multiple projects. The position provides leadership to the commercialization team and acts as the primary liaison between various departments to ensure strategic alignment and successful delivery of business objectives. It also translates portfolio performance, risks, and opportunities into executive-level insights and recommendations.

Responsibilities

Own the portfolio of commercialization, component change, business continuity, and market expansion initiatives.
Establish priorities and resource allocation across projects.
Evaluate opportunities, risks, timing, and business impacts of initiatives.
Develop commercialization strategies supporting growth, compliance, and operational objectives.
Lead regulatory driven commercialization initiatives including ingredient substitutions, reformulations, packaging changes, labeling updates and compliance programs.
Partner with Regulatory Affairs to assess business impacts of changing regulations.
Develop implementation strategies that balance compliance, risk, supply continuity and business objectives.
Drive risk mitigation and contingency planning activities.
Lead commercialization strategies supporting international growth.
Establish frameworks for market-entry execution and product adaptation.
Ensure ingredient, packaging, labeling and specification requirements are addressed for target markets.
Co-ordinate commercialization readiness activities across functions.
Monitor progress against international launch objectives and timelines.
Build a high-performing, engaged organization while actively role modeling company leadership expectations and values.
Ensure proper onboarding and development of all staff by completing induction process, coaching and developing capabilities, executing PDP start/mid-year dialogues and performance calibration, and engaging in corrective action when required.
Participate in and develop succession plans adhering to the MDLZ STR process.
Ensure an engaged workforce through strategic workforce planning and creation/execution of Employee Survey action plans.
Lead by example upholding the values and holding others accountable for the same.
Implement commercialization governance processes, stage-gate reviews, and reporting frameworks.
Develop portfolio dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and performance metrics.
Create and deliver executive-level updates that communicate portfolio status, key milestones, risks, resource requirements, financial impacts, and strategic recommendations.
Prepare materials and insights for leadership reviews, steering committees, and business update meetings.
Monitor project performance, risks, and resource utilization across the portfolio.
Ensure effective budget management and financial oversight.
Drive continuous improvement of commercialization tools, systems, reporting, and processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Food Science, Marketing, Supply Chain, Project Management, Regulatory Affairs, or related discipline.
6-10 years of experience in commercialization, product development, project management, innovation, regulatory affairs, or related functions within CPG, food, beverage, or manufacturing.
Experience leading complex cross-functional commercialization initiatives.
Demonstrated people leadership experience or significant leadership of matrix teams.
Experience managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
Strong commercialization and portfolio management expertise.
Advanced project and program management capabilities.
Knowledge of ingredient, packaging, labeling, and specification management processes.
Strong business and financial acumen.
Experience building governance structures and performance metrics.
Excellent stakeholder management and influence skills.
Strong leadership and coaching capabilities.
Ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational change.
Knowledge of commercialization systems and project management platforms (Monday.com, SAP, PLM, Smartsheet, etc.).
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Skills

Commercialization
Portfolio Management
Product Development
Project Management
Innovation
Regulatory Affairs
CPG
Food
Beverage
Manufacturing
Cross-functional Leadership
Matrix Team Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Influence
Leadership
Coaching
Ambiguity Navigation
Organizational Change Management
Commercialization Systems
Project Management Platforms
Analytical Skills
Problem-Solving
Decision-Making
Ingredient Management
Packaging Management
Labeling Management
Specification Management
Business Acumen
Financial Acumen
Governance Structures
Performance Metrics

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

6-10 years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Benefits

Opportunities for career growth and development
Learning and growth environment
Sharing new ideas encouraged
Experimenting encouraged
Learning from each other encouraged

About the Company

Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp. is a proud member of the Mondelēz family.
We are a leading and growing North American manufacturer of baked goods for over 30 years.
Our Consumer Brands include two-bite® brand, two bite-brownies®, Kimberley's Bakeshoppe™, Mason St. Bakehouse™ and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co™.
It’s an exciting time to be a part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part of our growth and extraordinarily bright future!

Equal Opportunity

Give & Go Prepared Foods (USA) Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Company does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, domestic partnership, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, disability, marital status, veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, genetic information, reproductive decision making, salary history, arrest or conviction record or any other legal recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the organization.
While there is no federal law specifically prohibiting employers from asking applicants if they've ever been convicted of a crime, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recommends employers avoid asking for this information on an application form.