Project Manager
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Role Overview
The employer is seeking a highly experienced and commercially driven Project Manager to lead strategic, cross-functional, and business-critical initiatives.
The role drives business transformation, project governance, new product launches, and projects supporting organizational growth objectives.
The ideal candidate has a strong FMCG background and experience leading end-to-end new product development and launch projects.
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Role Overview
The employer is seeking a highly experienced and commercially driven Project Manager to lead strategic, cross-functional, and business-critical initiatives.
The role drives business transformation, project governance, new product launches, and projects supporting organizational growth objectives.
The ideal candidate has a strong FMCG background and experience leading end-to-end new product development and launch projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end project execution from business-case development and approval through implementation and value realization.
- Drive cross-functional projects across Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Operations.
- Lead new product launches from coordination through launch timelines, commercial objectives, and market readiness.
- Establish project-governance frameworks, project briefs, business cases, stage-gate reviews, and approval processes.
- Manage scope, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
- Execute business-transformation, process-improvement, and cost-optimization initiatives.
- Develop executive dashboards, status reports, KPIs, and performance-tracking mechanisms.
- Conduct feasibility studies, financial evaluations, and business-case assessments.
- Facilitate post-project reviews, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related discipline.
- PMP, Lean Six Sigma, CAPM, or equivalent project-management certification is preferred.
- At least 7 years of project-management experience, preferably in FMCG, manufacturing, consumer goods, or commercial operations.
- Mandatory FMCG experience with product lifecycle, commercialization, and go-to-market knowledge.
- Hands-on experience leading new product development and launch projects from concept through market launch.
- Experience managing large-scale cross-functional projects and organizational change initiatives.
- Experience with business cases, feasibility analysis, financial evaluation, and ROI assessment.
- Strong stakeholder-management, communication, influencing, and leadership skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Candidate Profile
The employer is seeking a proactive, results-oriented project leader who can bridge strategy and execution, drive accountability across functions, and deliver complex FMCG projects with measurable business value.
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