Senior Project Manager, Commercialization

Who We Are   Chomps is America’s fastest-growing meat snack brand, redefining convenient snacking with a commitment to real ingredients and bold, satisfying flavors. Crafted from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef and venison, along with antibiotic-free turkey and chicken, each Chomps meat stick delivers 10+ grams of high-quality protein without sugar, hormones, soy, dairy, artificial preservatives, artificial nitrates, or MSG. Seasoned with a blend of flavorful herbs and spices, Chomps provides a nutritious protein snack for the whole family. As a minority-owned, family-operated, and B Corporation-certified business, Chomps prioritizes thoughtful sourcing and recently earned the non–ultra-processed food certification through the non-GMO project. Discover a new standard in snacking at  www.chomps.com . Traits of a Chompian   If you’ve been called nimble, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you. *Accepting applications through 10/4/2026 5pm CST What You Will Do We seek a highly strategic, deeply organized Senior Project Manager to lead our complex, cross ‑ category innovation and commercialization initiatives. The ideal candidate brings advanced project leadership experience who does not only monitor progress and manage timelines, budgets, and risks, but also shaping project strategy, driving cross ‑ functional alignment, and anticipating challenges before they surface. As a Senior Project Manager, you will oversee and influence multiple high ‑ impact projects through the Stage ‑ Gate process, ensuring disciplined execution, stakeholder confidence, and consistent on ‑ time delivery across a fast ‑ moving innovation pipeline.   Responsibilities Strategic Project Leadership   Lead and influence cross ‑ functional teams through complex, innovation projects, overseeing multiple high ‑ move initiatives simultaneously while driving alignment, strategic prioritization, and timely decision ‑ making to ensure disciplined execution.   Build strategic project frameworks, challenge assumptions, and proactively identify risks and bottlenecks before they impact timelines.   Drive accountability across teams and elevate issues to leadership when needed to protect launch timing and quality.   Project Management Responsibilities   Lead and influence high ‑ level, cross ‑ functional project meetings, driving clarity on updates, risks, decisions, and timelines while ensuring alignment across diverse teams and senior stakeholders.   Design, refine, and lead the complex project timelines (Monday.com), driving strategic prioritization, anticipating timeline risks, and enabling cross ‑ functional teams to execute with clarity and precision.   Oversee end ‑ to ‑ end project performance, using advanced documentation, risk modeling, and mitigation strategies to anticipate issues before they impact delivery.   Drive accountability at all levels, ensuring cross ‑ functional partners meet commitments and escalating barriers early to protect launch timing and quality.   Orchestrate cross ‑ functional collaboration, aligning teams around clear objectives, decision pathways, and commercialization requirements for high moving innovation projects.   Manage project scope, budgets, and resources effectively to ensure successful on- time project delivery   Coach, mentor, and elevate project managers and commercialization team members, strengthening Stage ‑ Gate discipline, operational rigor, and project management excellence across the organization.   Stage-Gate Process:   Support projects through the stage gate process, assisting in ensuring adherence to defined gates and deliverables at each stage.   Partner with the Innovation Director in preparing for gate reviews, including gathering necessary documentation, helping with presentations, taking detailed notes and supporting the documentation of the approval s .   Collaborate with the Innovation Director to make sure the key stakeholders are aligned and facilitate decision-making at each gate.   Provide training on stage gate and commercialization to new team members ​   Implement robust post launch evaluations to capture learnings and drive continuous improvement.   Cross-Functional Collaboration:   Facilitate collaboration across product development, marketing, manufacturing, planning, inventory, fulfillment, BAT, sales, and finance.   Promote clear communication and teamwork to manage interdependencies and address conflicts.   Serve as the senior liaison between project teams and leadership, providing clear, concise updates on risks, opportunities, and strategic decisions.   Resource Management:   Partner with internal and external stakeholders to secure the right resources at the right time for complex innovation projects.   Prioritize work across teams to optimize efficiency and ensure critical path tasks stay on track   Continuous Improvement:   Analyze project data to identify trends, productivity opportunities, and systemic improvements and apply key learnings to drive actionable insights that enhance productivity savings.   Champion a culture of learning, cross training, and process optimization.   Lead initiatives that strengthen commercialization discipline across the organization.   Who You Are Bachelor's degree in business administration, pr