Project Manager (Wine Jobs: Management & Administration)

Full Time

  Truett Hurst (http://www.truetthurstinc.com)

  Healdsburg, California

PROJECT MANAGER 

Innovation & New Product Development

Role overview:

Manage new product development from concept to commercialization in order to deliver products on-time, within quality standards, and at targeted gross margins.

 

Job description:

Primary Responsibility:

Project Management 

- Establish project brief and tasked base time line providing clear & realistic guidance to customers, sales & marketing, creative and customers.

- Manage coordination and project schedule adherence with internal stakeholders (Sales & Marketing, Finance, Winemaking, Supply Chain, Compliance) and external stakeholders (designers, vendors, bottlers, legal, etc) 

- Lead monthly New Product Committee and link with other work streams as appropriate (Production meeting, Bulk allocation…)

- Maintain clear documentation of communication with vendors, designers and clients – immediately communicate project delays

- Participate in developing financial costing model and source new vendors if necessary

- Create bill of material and assist in item set up in ERP

- Establish packaging details for production (final artwork, COLA, book of specifications, QC protocol)

- Manage first run protocol with vendors and eventually attend press check to sign off on final production of components

- Analyze product cost variances vs initial budget and provide recommendations to Sr. Management to make decisions 

 

Secondary Responsibility:

Packaging Quality Management

- Oversee the on-going quality for the new and existing components and support Production to trouble shoot any on-going quality issues

- Perform as a group leader for packaging quality issues: gathering data around issue, root cause analysis, working with vendor to identify a solution and conducting trials to implement solution

- Drive continuous improvement program

 

Procurement initiatives and cost saving initiatives support:

- Assist in pre and post qualification meeting 

- Coordinate and participate in line trials and qualification runs

- Improve and value engineer existing components

- Identify business opportunities through constant quest of innovative solutions and close monitoring of technological developments

- Assist in new supplier capability assessment and qualification 

 

Other:

- Documentation of standard operating procedures as directed

- Cross train to provide back-up for other members of Production team (procurement and logistic team)

- Data entry as required

- Other duties as assigned

 

Experience:

- Strong project management skills with in depth knowledge of packaging material, primary/secondary package designs, printing, testing processes/procedures and material handling, transportation and transit robustness (BS in Package Engineering (or related technical field) a significant plus)

- 2 to 5 years of technical and professional development experience in direct consumer product (beverage alcohol preferred)

- Experience utilizing project management software (Smart Sheet, etc)

- Experience with ERP systems (Navision a plus)

- Robust analytical and problem solving skills 

- Risk management practices and techniques

- Effective presentation skills

- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a cross functional team

 

Work Location:

Healdsburg, CA with 10% travel to vendors, bottlers and 3rd party logistic sites

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