Associate Gifting & Merchandise Project Manager

World Finer Foods, LLC.•Bloomfield, NJ

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

World Finer Foods is a full-service sales, marketing and distribution company for specialty food and personal care brands. With over $250 million in annual sales, World Finer Foods sells over 35 brands and over 500 products from around the world. Today we manage a group of our own brands as well as client-owned brands. Our third-party (client-owned) brand portfolio spans multiple categories with brands in a variety of stages of their lifecycles in the U.S. market – from emerging brands to established specialty brands. World Finer Foods has an opening for an Associate Gifting & Merchandise Project Manager. The successful candidate will have a creative mindset combined with strong project management, analytical, quantitative, vendor relations, and cross-functional collaboration skills. They will act as the “supply chain owner” of the World Finer Foods ecommerce, club, and seasonal gifting businesses for portfolio of branded food products.

Requirements

Print and packaging procurement experience
Project management experience in the CPG industry
Experience in designing and building special packs for e-commerce and retail
Vendor relationship management
Heavy cross-functional experience
Ability to work both autonomously and in a team environment
Proactively deliver business solutions
Comfortable working in an ever-evolving environment
Ability to lead/partner with brand, eCommerce and Gifting teams.
Strong negotiation/persuasion skills
Exceptional time management, project management, and organizational skills
Strong quantitative skills
Ability to research vendors and copackers and negotiate contracts.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
Strong computer (Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint) skills
Experience in the sourcing of packaging materials for consumer goods for holiday gifting and e-commerce.
Experience with print production, merchandising procurement and project management
Experience managing contractors building these gift and e-commerce consumer goods.
CPG industry (food and beverage, beauty, personal care, etc.) experience required.

Nice To Haves

Bring a positive attitude to the team.

Responsibilities

Identify and procure/source vendors to create and produce quality gift and merchandise items.
Develop relationships with managing supply chain partners, which may include copackers, materials vendors, channel-specific warehouses, etc.
Source packaging materials to build innovative gifts and e-commerce packs.
Manage inventory and copackers that build these special packs.
Set/meet deadlines and proactively track project progress.
Hold external partners and vendors accountable for commitments.
Utilize creative outlook and critical thinking skills to resolve any construction-based issues at copackers.
Manage and maintain project-specific budgets.
Track expenses and billing back partners as needed.
Project manage cross-functional teams for internal and external execution of seasonal gifting and everyday alternate channel businesses.
Work closely with marketing, e-commerce, and sales teams to design and build e-commerce and gift products that align with consumer and customer expectations and requirements.
Partner with finance, sales, marketing, supply chain, etc. to ensure all internal components of project are according to project plan.