Commercialization Specialist
About The Position
The Commercialization Specialist plays a key role in the management of internal and customer projects, including key ownership of plant trials, product scale up and launch activities. This maintains an integrated view of all in flight commercialization projects across their assigned plants and plays a critical role on key customer account teams including customer-facing communication. This role monitors timelines, aligns cross functional teams around critical path deliverables, and proactively resolves risks or gaps. The Commercialization Specialist organizes commercialization aspects of plant trials, including planning, execution, documentation, and customer approval processes, ensuring new products transition smoothly from development into full production.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Food Science, Operations, or related field.
- 2–4 years of experience in commercialization, product development, manufacturing operations, or related fields.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and collaboration platforms (Teams, SharePoint).
- Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Guide commercialization efforts for new products and packaging, ensuring launch readiness and excellence.
- Manage day‑to‑day execution of assigned commercialization projects, ensuring alignment with timelines, deliverables, and customer expectations.
- Facilitate cross‑functional communication across R&D, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, and Technical Services.
- Organize project documents, checklists, timelines, and shared folders in approved platforms.
- Lead meetings and required working sessions for product development and commercialization activities.
- Ensure adherence to commercialization best practices and support ongoing improvements to internal processes.
- Track and maintain commercialization pipeline status, flagging risks or delays to team.
- Coordinate and support execution of plant trials or pilot runs at manufacturing facilities.
- Partner with sales teams to support customer communication and accurate project updates. Complete and submit commercial reports on time.
- Champion Finlays’ purpose and values, develop team capabilities and processes and partner across the organization to deliver dependent projects.
- Manage expenses and travel budget
- Other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
