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Donna Waslenko
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The Commercialization Manager is responsible for leading the Commercialization team at Clemens Food Group (CFG). The Commercialization Department is responsible for the effective delivery of all new products into the marketplace on time and to customer expectations. Scope of responsibility includes new products and spec changes to existing products for all CFG products sold in Retail, Foodservice, and B to B.
Performance Management
Ensure KPIs are established and used to drive improvement
Ensure launch post-mortems are performed by project managers; improvements implemented
Hold project managers accountable to commercialization process
Manage effective completion of overall portfolio of commercialization projects
Lead commercialization review for leadership team
Review scope of work prepared by project managers
Trouble-shoot and problem solve with team or stakeholders when obstacles are confronted
Participate in CSC budget review and ownership
Ensure effective communication of projects to stakeholders
Lead select projects on case-by-case basis
Manage internal customer relationships
Process Improvement & Planning
Develop and continuously improve the commercialization and launch stages of Stage Gate Process (SGP)
Make recommendation on quantity of projects that the company takes on
Lead conversation regarding resource management (can we do it)
Collaborate with owners of other stage gates for the purpose creating best in class SGP
Participate in new opportunity steering committee
Ensure consistent processes, SOPs, tools and documentation are in place to manage the area
Assess existing commercialization process and tools; implement tolls and train to tools
Develop departmental KPIs
Attend external events for process and product capability learnings
Participate in visits to other plants for learning industry best practices
Talent Management
Assess team ability and provide coaching for areas of opportunities
Coach direct reports on soft skills and technical matters
Meet with direct report to review IPP progress
Manage staffing to carry out existing projects and pipeline projects
Assign projects to project managers
Establish succession plan Build network to develop pipeline of future talent for CFG Facilitate and support root cause analysis with team
Cultivate customer Velcro-point mentality with team
Sales Support
Participate in customer relationship development
Participate in customer visits: lead tours, provide training, build relationships
Participate in ideation on products
Accompany sales team on external sales call Participate in customer visit planning; assign resources appropriately
Team CFG
Provide product and process trouble-shooting to stakeholder groups in operations & FSQA
Lead short and long-term projects with cross-functional groups
Participate in Technical Team Level 10 meeting Participate in leadership class for CFG
Participate in job definition process
Train new hires in touch point functions as part of onboarding process
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Product Management and Marketing
Industries
Food and Beverage Services, Food and Beverage Manufacturing, and Manufacturing
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