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About Us
Congo Brands is at the epicenter of where consumer demand meets product development. Through brand partnerships with lead influencers, we are afforded an inside look at what consumers truly desire. Congo Brands houses some of the Worlds most noted brands including Alani Nu, Prime Hydration, Prime Energy, and 3D Energy only to include more within the coming years.

Congo Brands is a health and wellness brand that sells supplements, fitness snacks, hydration drinks, energy drinks, and many more through ecommerce and retail partnerships. E-commerce becomes the laboratory for consumer feedback and serves as a data pool for future retail endeavors. Congo Brands is on pace to become one of the Worlds most noted consumer product brand companies, with revenue growth increasing exponentially year over year. Congo Brands goal is to be the go-to Better for You Brand for everything from nutritional supplements, energy drinks, snacks and much more.

The role:

The Innovation Commercialization Manager role will streamline and communicate our expansion in the Beverage, Nutrition, and Personal Care products markets. In this role you will apply your experience to develop new product launch processes, stakeholder management, and project execution work streams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own a pipeline of projects as a key leader responsible for the execution of project timelines and outlining of resources, with a strong understanding of linkages between tasks throughout the process of commercializing a new item.
• Manage complex projects through the Stage Gate process, and compile postmortems for review.
• Lead cross-functional meetings outlining action items for follow ups as guidelines for the core project team(s).
• Organize cross-functional input (ex.: R&D, finance, operations, sales, marketing) for new projects, ensuring key stakeholders have a voice at the table within the working team.
• Facilitate project scorecards (project status, action items, achievements) to key partners and encourage accountability for teams responsible for completing tasks at hand.
• Act as the project advocate in overcoming obstacles and keeping projects progressing through the Stage Gate process.
• Establish and maintain meaningful relationships throughout cross-functional teams and external vendors.
• Use effective project management skills, including but not limited to GANTT charts, A3 problem solving, chartering, stakeholder analysis, RACI, work breakdown structure; critical path; crashing technique; setting milestones and progress reporting to move a project from inception to completion
• Coordination of Innovation sample requests, feedback, and approved formula library
• Other duties as required

Key skills and experience required:

• Education: Bachelors degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related fields
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of responsibility in Project Management, R&D Innovation, or Supply Chain analysis
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and oral)
• Demonstrated strength in inspiring a team-oriented collaborative environment
• Ability to work independently/Self-starter
• Ability to travel as needed
• Strong MS Office/Excel capabilities
• Has a demonstrated passion that align with the core values of Alani Nu

• Experience with NetSuite/ERP systems
• PMP Certification

• Competitive Salary
• Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, HSA / FSA / Dependent Care FSA
• 3 weeks PTO + 8 paid holidays
• 6 weeks paid parental leave
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Free product
• AND MUCH MORE!

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