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JOB SUMMARY:

Manager, Innovation and Marketing Projects

Summary:

The Innovation and Marketing Projects Manager will work with the Director of Innovation and Project Management to bring new products to market. This position will help lead ideation sessions, analyze new ingredient trends, validate concepts with consumers, work with concept testing vendors, co-create and present New Product Charters with the Brand Team. Once concepts have been validated, project management begins. This position will manage a large cross-functional team from finance to R&D to plant managers in the creation of new products, ensuring tasks are completed on time. The Innovation and Marketing Project Manager will foster a culture of continuous improvement in process to help meet the long-term needs of Gaia’s vision and strategic growth plans.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Work within cross-functional teams to identify new product concepts, guide process, maintain a schedule, and build a positive culture that will facilitate team member contribution toward completion of projects and initiatives in line with deliverable expectations and cultural values.

• Lead or contribute to larger corporate initiatives, including:
• New Product ideation and validation
• New Product or Reformulated Product development
• Marketing and Sales-focused projects
• Manage dedicated project teams by cultivating relationships between the team members to ensure project success
• Ensure schedule adherence of tasks and deliverables within all departments/functions contributing to assigned projects
• Update director-level stakeholders regularly with project progress
• Lead a culture of creative problem solving inherent in managing projects
• Work with project team members to familiarize them with our processes and PM software

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Requirements

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with 3+ years’ experience managing projects, or equivalent practical experience in lieu of degree.
• Certified Associate Project Manager Certification in progress or completed within the first year at Gaia
• Experience with project management software, like Monday.com, MS Project, Asana, Smartsheet, Click Up, Workfront.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Curiosity and comfort creating product forms, ingredient combinations, and need-state solutions that may not exist in the market
• Skills in project management, process improvement/optimization, and an ability to analyze information with accuracy.
• Must be able to work collaboratively with cross-functional partners around the organization.
• Other highly essential qualities:
• Ability to encourage and harness creativity
• Resilience in coping with conflicting demands and working under pressure
• Ability to work to deadlines
• A team builder
• Communicate with an articulate and diplomatic manner in groups
• Ability to adapt well to change
• Strong attention to detail and organization
• Self-motivated and able to take initiative

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear; and taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to be able to view a computer screen.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

State the environment and related hazards and noise levels. Example: The employee in this position primarily works in an office environment, but may infrequently pass through a manufacturing plant, where they would be exposed to moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and loud noise.

The above statements are meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required of personnel so classified.