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The Business Associate will lead project management tasks and assist with tracking, managing, and executing new products/business strategies created by G-Works Co-founder teams. In this highly cross-functional role, they work closely with the Co-Founders to create, build, and launch new products/businesses that accelerate our enterprise growth initiatives. Additionally, they will play an integral role in assisting the co-founders to manage agency partners as well as leading the process of setting up new items in General Mills systems. Seeking a self-starter who is highly collaborative, comfortable with ambiguity, and passionate about role modeling an entrepreneurial mindset and approach.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Additional Considerations:
Company Overview:
OVERVIEW
As the Business Associate on the Emerging Brand Center of Excellence team, you will have the opportunity to join Disruptive Growth as we work to build, invest, and partner to create the next growth engine for General Mills. Disruptive Growth brings together the external venture capital arm (301 INC), our internal venture studio (G-Works), and our Growth Equity fund within Gold Medal Ventures focused on building food solutions for tomorrow’s families today. The Emerging Brand COE (center of excellence) is a cross-functional team of General Mills savvy, startup scrappy experts providing indispensable partnership and guidance across our Disruptive Growth portfolio of companies.
The Business Associate will lead project management tasks and assist with tracking, managing, and executing new products/business strategies created by G-Works Co-founder teams. In this highly cross-functional role, they work closely with the Co-Founders to create, build, and launch new products/businesses that accelerate our enterprise growth initiatives. Additionally, they will play an integral role in assisting the co-founders to manage agency partners as well as leading the process of setting up new items in General Mills systems. Seeking a self-starter who is highly collaborative, comfortable with ambiguity, and passionate about role modeling an entrepreneurial mindset and approach.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Help co-founders identify priorities, help to plan and move things forward, follow up with key contributors and revisit regularly to assess progress
- Lead executional project management tasks (overall timeline & key dates across sales, supply chain, logistics, new item setup)
- Coordinate weekly cross functional meeting check in to review key dates that will advance business planning & operations; provide recaps and relevant check-ins/follow up
- Act as a key thought partner, brainstorming and identifying solutions to challenges, wins, losses and areas of improvement and opportunity
- Schedule working sessions and/or workshops relevant to business planning initiatives
- Own budget management and tracking including PO creation & management; hold weekly budgeting meeting to align expenses to line items
- Navigate the G-Works & General Mills ecosystem to align meetings with the Co-Founders, Emerging Brand COE, & external partners to secure people and their time to advance business plans
- Ensure full team has performance data/summaries, gleans implications from data and reports
- Partner cross-functionally to build ongoing weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to assess how well we are doing concerning velocity, quality, and scale.
- Execute sample requests and package flats for customer requests & trade shows
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 2+ years of experience post-undergrad
- Highly motivated and action-oriented with strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Project management experience- Proven track record of managing complex cross-functional projects while maintaining an efficient plan, tracking issues, and proactively communicating progress against project milestones
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks
- Growth mindset and highly adaptable to new methods and ways of working
- Highly collaborative putting team results over personal gain
- Ability to challenge the status quo and drive innovation, high comfort operating in ambiguity
- Ability to influence others without formal authority
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- External Startup Experience
- Experience with New Item Setup Processes such as CPW, STEP, and EClips
- PO Creation and Budget Management Experience
Additional Considerations:
International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered
Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.
