Director, Program Management Lead - Global Pkg Category

Overview

A BIT ABOUT US

The Marketing Store is a consumer engagement agency that believes in the power of experience to build brands.  Experience is any valuable interaction between a brand and consumer, and it's the currency of 21st century marketing; consumers are placing greater value on it, technology provides brands with greater opportunity to deliver, and it's the key to unlocking huge growth.

 

Our core skill is therefore transforming brands, products and services into experiences. To leave lasting impressions and influence future purchasing decisions.

 

We do this through our expertise in the sharing of experience and the science of experience. Yet none of this can be achieved without our investment in people and culture. We're committed to breaking down silos to create more efficient and better-connected working processes. That's why we are a people-first agency, built to serve consumer-first brands.

 

TMS/HAVI requires all of its US based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved.

 

WHAT ARE OUR PEOPLE LIKE?

Our agency is home to creative problem solvers. Those who overcome any obstacle to successfully put consumer-first ideas, products and technologies into market.

 

People who wear their talent lightly. Willing to be part of a close community that pushes them to be better.

 

Because our goal is to bring people and brands closer together. Closer insights, closer connections and closer collaboration breed better, more effective work. It's this dedication to getting closer that drives us to go further.

 

WHO WE WORK WITH

We apply insightful, strategic, brand-building processes to the creation industry-leading, award-winning promotions, digital experiences, retail activations, CRM and loyalty programs, premiums and brand events.

 

Our clients include McDonald's, Nissan, Infiniti, T-Mobile and more!

Responsibilities

ROLE OVERVIEW

 

The Program Management Lead for the Global Pkg category leads a team responsible for global and regional Program Management. This role provides strategic leadership to initiatives that support the customer's/business's strategies, both for current and new opportunities. Leadership skills, a demonstrated ability to influence across business units and effectively coordinate internal cross-functional team members, particularly through roadblocks and issues that would impede progress, are required. In addition, this role will help identify, develop, and implement process improvement opportunities that further enable efficiencies and speed to market for Core Products is responsible for establishing the strategy for the Core packaging category items, and for defining service scope and levels with the customer

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the development and activities of 6 team members supporting global and regional category initiatives
• Lead and ensure delivery of large, complex programs from initiation through completion
• Run performance metrics and measurements on Global Program Management effectiveness
• Responsible for Global and Regional stakeholder management. Ensure proper program status is communicated timely and effectively with all key customer contacts.
• Ensures global team assumes project management responsibility for strategic multi-regional projects and enables global team to lead and deliver innovative, complex projects from preliminary concept through lead market test completion
• Identify, develop, and implement process improvement opportunities that further enable efficiencies and speed to market
• Balance global, regional, and local needs and ensures cross-communication and strategic awareness/alignment
• Balance customer cross-functional department needs when leading strategic programs for the packaging category
• Collaborate and partner with Category Lead - Core Packaging and Category Lead - Innovation & Growth to be a strategic Category leader that offers critical input to enable optimal category service delivery
• Ensure customer communication is clearly supported with analysis and data that can drive effective decision making at a rapid pace

Desired Skills & Experience

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, technical or packaging related discipline or minimum of 15 years in project management within Consumer-Packaged Goods, Food Service, Quick Serve Restaurants or other related industries
• Demonstrated success in packaging commercialization, minimum 5 years of Project Management experience delivering moderate to large, complex technical packaging projects on-time and within budget, and minimum of 5 years Program Management experience leading cross-regional programs that drive strategic benefits and organizational growth.
• Experience in CPG, Food Service, Quick Serve Restaurants, or other related industries.
• Experience in leading a multi-disciplined team with the ability to lead, thrive, provide guidance, and navigate through ambiguity.
• Experience and familiarity with formal, financially driven business case methodology and development.
• Experience in the food/consumer goods area and/or consumer package technology a plus.
• Strategic and innovative mentality - ability to track, understand and strategize against marketplace, customer, competitor, and category trends
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to effectively lead and simplify complex client facing conversations
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead in a matrix organization - ability to segment a product or initiative and develop and execute in collaboration with other business groups
• Relationship Management approach - can handle multiple relationships while ensuring key performance metrics are met
• Leadership acuity to effectively develop a team

Benefits

EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS

 

US based employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the date of hire to be considered. Proof of vaccination is required.

 

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION STATEMENT:

 

At The Marketing Store and HAVI we encourage all our people to 'Bring Your Own Voice' (BYOV)! We prioritize building an accessible, equitable and inclusive culture that cultivates belonging. By investing in this culture alongside professional development, we aim to empower our people to produce their best work.

 

We, like many others, are on a journey to become a deeply inclusive organization. Recognized as producing innovative, inclusive products and services and as a top place to grow. As such, we continue to learn and un-learn, inclusively amplify the voices of all people and restlessly evolve.

 

If you want your ideas heard, to grow authentically and to contribute to an inclusive and forward-thinking culture - then bring us your voice!

 

We are The Marketing Store.

Employment Type: OTHER