Senior R&D Project Manager (Frozen Food)

About this role

Title: Senior R&D Project Manager (Frozen Food) Location: Remote (candidates must be located in the United States) Company: Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Manufacturing (FuseGlobal has worked with this company for 20 years) Initial term: 14 months (position expected to run longer) Schedule: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm About This Role: In this position, you will: Lead several R&D projects / programs within the product technology center, with a focus on top priority Innovation and Renovation projects across the frozen foods businesses (meals, pizza and snacking).

Plan projects end-to-end, ensuring alignment with Idea-to-Launch (I2L) and key corporate strategies and commitments. Orchestrate a cross-functional and multi-disciplinary team (R&D, SBU, Zone, Markets) to achieve the project defined key success criteria and deliver against the business case. Manage project stakeholders; negotiating with key decision makers and leveraging with internal and external networks will be essential for your success.

Reporting to the product technology center project management office lead, this is a key role to ensure projects are delivered according to key performance criteria and to the satisfaction of key stakeholders. The position requires strong project management/leadership, communication, organization, and presentation skills. What You'll Do: Project Management/Leadership: Contribute to the future commercial success of the business by considering the whole picture of the project (E2E).

Be responsible for project management of cross-functional teams of marketing, quality assurance, engineering, product development, etc., promoting a team-building atmosphere for efficient, effective, and flawless execution of the projects along the entire flow. Communicate project status using excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills. Effectively control scope changes through proactive and open communication with stakeholders.

Manage parallel and sequential project tasks. Identify and communicate project costs and accelerated timing opportunities and risks. Generate and effectively record new knowledge. People and Resource Management: Define roles and responsibilities required for the project. Perform effective resource planning. Ensure resources are available for the project. Create project team spirit to deliver high quality results on time, on cost, and on quality.