Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avacend Inc is seeking a technical professional for a short-term assignment supporting foodservice and commercial product commercialization. The Project Manager will lead new product and reformulation launches, coordinate cross-functional and external manufacturing activities, manage technical documentation and systems, and resolve operational and technical gaps through launch.
Responsibilities
- Manage commercialization activities across multiple categories and formats including dispensed (legacy, FCB, FUB), flavored syrups, Freestyle and including managing AIM(Authorized Independent Manufacturers and directed model business partners, each with distinct operational and technical requirements
- Adapt technical documentation and launch support to meet customer or partner-specific needs while maintaining system standards and compliance
- Collaborate with external manufacturing facilities to review and assess production capabilities and coordinate plant trials (when necessary) to validate feasibility
- Support onboarding new facilities into commercialization processes
- Provide technical guidance and education to co-manufacturing partners on areas such as batching, kitting, mixing instructions, and production requirements
- Exercise technical judgment to determine appropriate levels of support, clarify ownership responsibilities, and ensure alignment between system expectations and partner execution capabilities
- Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve technical and operational gaps that arise during commercialization and launch execution
- Support continuous improvement of processes, documentation, and ways of working across evolving business models and commercialization approaches
- Lead the commercialization of new products and reformulations of existing products. Function as technical project leader for all commercialization activities ensuring successful project completion
- Develop and designs Plant formulations and Mixing Instructions and validates batching capability. Maintenance of the KOMIX formulation system
- Develops, designs and issues all technical and product information for the successful launch or new/reformulated products to the system including: formulations, mixing instructions, graphic numbers, SAP info, shelf life, ECCnet information and various other piece of info
- Proactively manages issues with on time delivery of ingredients from CPS and communication to project leads in Canada of any launch date risks
- Act as scientific, technical or quality expert and consultant by responding to targeted questions from the field or other departments/business units and providing support to bottlers and customers
- This includes acting as a resource for general information and acting as a consultant for other technical personnel in the Company
- Provide support to product development to inform them of existing system capabilities and determine requirements for new product types where capability does not exist
- Attend plant trial runs to ensure production capability
- Responsible for packaging components in Picasso system and ensuring accuracy
Skills
- ·3 years of prior work experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods company
- ·Strong ability to work on their own and take initiative
- ·Proven ability to think through the consequences of actions under consideration
- ·Strong communication skills to influence, negotiate, seek consensus and provide recommendations, solutions and improvements to existing products and processes
- ·Proven project manager
- ·Proven ability to manage time well; handle multiple complex tasks at once
- ·Strong capability to analyze conceptual information
- ·Bachelor's Degree / University Degree in Science or a related field
- ·10%
- • Has experience in — or curiosity about — manufacturing capabilities and the system network
- • Thrives working independently and taking initiative
- • Brings strong project management and prioritization skills
- • Communicates confidently and collaborates effectively across teams
- • Thinks analytically and proactively solves problems
- • Can balance technical precision with speed and business needs
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