Commercialization Manager - Waterbury, VT (Project Management)

The Company:

Founded in 1978, Cabot Hosiery Mills is an American manufacturer of premium socks with uncompromised comfort, durability, and fit. With a family of brands including Darn Tough Vermont, Wide Open, and Cabot & Sons, our mission is to make the world's best socks, in Vermont, USA, and back them with our Unconditional Lifetime Guarantee. We are family owned, three generations strong, and have yet to produce our best sock.

Job Summary:

As we continue to scale one of the fastest growing apparel brands, we are seeking a Commercialization Manager to increase project execution success and provide consistent delivery of the right projects, on time, with the right resources that align with the company's business objectives.  This position will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between the development of new products / product transitions to market launch in collaboration with Brand Marketing, Product Development, Sales and Supply Chain.

Key Interfaces: Brand Managers, Head of Marketing, Product Line Manager, Head of Product Development, Sales Operations Manager, Head of Sales, and Supply Chain Team.

Starting at $90,000 per year. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead CHM ‘stage gate' process for the successful launch of new products and product transitions that ensures stakeholder alignment, accountability and mutual success to fully leverage CHM's competitive advantage for speed to market.
• Serve as champion and subject matter expert for project management capabilities and the company stage gate process. Work with stakeholders on process adoption and process change management.
• Define and own PM tools, ways of working and communication norms across teams to support agility, collaboration and alignment
• Own CHM Product Information Management tool ensuring sales and marketing assets are in place to support go to market across all revenue streams and CHM brands
• Serve as key escalation point for decisions needed from project stakeholders and senior leadership team to clear roadblocks and ensure project success.
• Partner with Marketing, Product, and Sales stakeholders to define project details including objectives, key results, metrics, budgets, timelines, reporting and postmortem analysis. Develop and implement metrics for the measurement of project success.

    Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree required. MBA or master's degree a plus.
• PMI certification or similar credential.
• 5+ years in a project management role with both B2B and B2C channel experience.
• Demonstrated experience spearheading change in agile organizations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (both written and verbal).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with professionalism and flexibility. 
• Demonstrated project management, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

This job description should not be interpreted to be a complete list of all the duties, qualifications and responsibilities performed by the jobholder.  To maintain organizational flexibility, the organization has the discretion to add, drop or change at any time the duties, responsibilities and expectations of this position. This job description does not constitute an offer of employment, continuous employment or an employment contract. Reasonable accommodations will be considered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

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