Commercialization Portfolio Manager

Glanbia is a better nutrition company, home to consumer brands and ingredients that help people around the world feel strong, nourished, and perform well at any age. Our portfolio centers around dairy and non‑dairy nutritional ingredients, bioactive solutions, and precision premixes that power the world’s leading functional beverage, supplement, and wellness brands. We co‑innovate with customers to deliver ingredient systems and premix solutions for mainstream food and beverage, active nutrition, lifestyle nutrition, and clinical/infant markets.

Commercialization Portfolio Manager 

As the Commercialization Manager you will manage end-to-end commercialization and pre-commercialization processes for the Premix and associated CPS portfolios. The scope of the role will cover all new materials whether resulting from customer projects, market driven innovation or product variants.

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the commercialization processes of all finished good and raw materials for premix, bakery, and film & glitter products in the Americas region. 
• Once pre-Commercialization/Commercialization is triggered, coordinate across all functions the development and input of all internal and external documentation, required to enable the product to be produced and sold.
• Work closely with the relevant Health & Nutrition team members & functions to provide required documentation and information needed to register new products in developing markets.
• Perform master data/SAP setup functions assigned to the Commercialization manager and co-ordinate all other master data set up across all functional areas.
• Act as liaison for internal customers (sales, finance, customer service, purchasing, marketing, operations, quality) for day-to-day product activities and questions.
• Support master data governance by coordinating required corrections to finished good and raw material SAP data.
• Develop and maintain step action guides with screenshots and steps for both raw material and finished good processes.
• Identify 2-3 process improvement projects each year and work to completion.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in a scientific background (Food Science, Nutrition Science, etc.).
• 2-5 yrs. related experience within the food and/or ingredients space
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Preferred:

• Strong leadership and influencing skills in managing projects through the organization.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to establish priorities, interdependences and identify risks.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong technical skills with excellent understanding of product lifecycle – from concept to production of a saleable product.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to analyze KPIs, determine root cause of variances and recommend corrective actions.

The role will convene weekly meetings to provide awareness of all commercialization activities of finished goods and raw materials to relevant stakeholders as well as conduct quarterly review meetings to highlight progress and drive continuous improvement. Work location in Chicago or other Glanbia site.

What we would like to offer you!  

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K. Apply now and make a difference in the world of health and wellness! Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the salary range for this role is $80,000 - $100,000 plus an annual bonus. This range may not be applicable to other locations and targeted salary is midpoint of range. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. 

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. 

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.