Director, Commercialization

Sol de Janeiro • New York, NY

1d • $150,000 - $175,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Commercialization leads portfolio-wide commercialization strategy, governance, and cross-functional execution. Serving as a central business and operational leader, the role coordinates teams across Product & Innovation, Marketing, Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Commercial, and regional markets. The Director ensures initiatives progress from concept through commercialization readiness with clear priorities, timelines, decisions, risk management, and accountability while balancing speed, technical and operational complexity, resource capacity, regulatory requirements, and business priorities.

Reporting into the Supply Chain organization, this position strengthens scalable commercialization capabilities as the business grows. It leads portfolio and global market initiatives, commercialization governance and stage gates, integrated timelines, readiness reviews, and operational handoffs. The role also drives process improvement and capability building, and provides leadership and guidance to project managers supporting the portfolio.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in commercialization, new product development, program management, project management, product innovation, supply chain, or a related cross-functional leadership role.
• Significant experience leading complex product commercialization programs within beauty, cosmetics, personal care, consumer products, or a related industry.
• Demonstrated experience managing a significant portfolio of concurrent global initiatives.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end product lifecycle, from concept through commercialization readiness, operational execution, and launch stabilization.
• Experience leading commercialization governance, integrated timelines, stage gates, and readiness reviews.
• Demonstrated experience with global market expansion and coordination across international or regional stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of product development, regulatory, sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercialization dependencies.
• Proven experience driving process improvement, organizational change, and scalable ways of working.
• Strong business acumen and ability to assess operational, financial, and strategic trade-offs.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to anticipate risks, navigate ambiguity, and drive decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to balance strategic portfolio leadership with detailed operational execution.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and web-based project or portfolio management tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercialization strategy and execution for new product launches, product extensions, reformulations, renovations, and other portfolio initiatives.
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility into priorities, timing, risks, resource needs, dependencies, and critical business decisions; align projects with business objectives, launch expectations, and operational realities.
• Provide strategic direction to project teams, establish ownership and accountability, anticipate supply-related risks, and partner with leadership on prioritization, resource allocation, and trade-offs.
• Lead commercialization planning and governance for new market and regional expansion initiatives, coordinating readiness across functional and regional teams.
• Reflect market-specific requirements, localization needs, regulatory options, operational dependencies, and supply considerations in market-entry plans and decisions.
• Establish timelines, milestones, ownership, and escalation paths for market-entry programs; track risks, decisions, dependencies, and readiness status; align global priorities with regional requirements.
• Lead governance from concept through Commercialization Readiness, including strategic launch meetings, portfolio reviews, stage gates, and readiness reviews.
• Define and document stage-gate criteria, approvals, and business decisions; manage risks, assumptions, dependencies, mitigation plans, and unresolved decisions; drive issue resolution and consistent governance standards.
• Oversee integrated cross-functional timelines for concurrent initiatives, ensuring they reflect technical development, regulatory, sourcing, manufacturing, financial, and regional market requirements.
• Monitor critical paths, milestones, interdependencies, and portfolio risks; communicate timing, readiness, and required decisions to leadership; hold teams accountable and address changing priorities and capacity alignment.
• Lead cross-functional readiness through Commercialization Readiness and applicable launch authorization reviews, ensuring technical, operational, regulatory, sourcing, and financial requirements are met.
• Confirm deliverables, approvals, and prerequisites before operational ownership transitions to Supply Planning; partner with Supply Planning and Manufacturing on capacity, lead times, production requirements, and operational constraints.
• Maintain communication through operational execution and launch stabilization, and escalate readiness gaps that could threaten timing, service, inventory, or commercial commitments.
• Improve commercialization governance, tools, processes, reporting, and cross-functional practices; simplify processes, strengthen stage gates and readiness criteria, and establish consistent methodologies, templates, and standards.
• Use portfolio insights, recurring risks, and lessons learned to implement sustainable improvements, strengthen transparency and accountability, and build scalable capabilities as the business and portfolio grow.
• Drive adoption of improved processes and embed them in day-to-day work.
• Build partnerships across functional and regional teams, align stakeholders around priorities and outcomes, influence decisions across organizational levels, and foster collaboration, accountability, rigor, and proactive risk management.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project managers supporting the assigned portfolio.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus program for full-time team members.
• Flexible hybrid work environment with opportunities for collaboration and growth.
• Inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and celebrates individuality.
• Opportunity to be part of a fast-growing, award-winning global beauty brand.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed