Category Manager - Mass/Club
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Senior Program Manager, Formulation and Packaging Product Development
MANSCAPED
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $140,000 - $148,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead end-to-end program management for product lifecycle formulation development and packaging initiatives, from initial scoping through execution, launch, and post-launch review
- Own and evolve the stage gate process across formulation programs, ensuring clear checkpoints, risk mitigation, and cross-functional alignment
- Build long-lead program plans that enable ideation, leverage cross-functional efficiencies, and integrate learnings from past initiatives into new programs
- Champion continuous process improvement by optimizing documentation, workflows, and programs while enhancing team collaboration and driving efficiencies across internal and external partners
- Facilitate project activities (kickoffs, status reviews, retrospectives) while proactively surfacing and resolving risks, blockers, and dependencies to maintain momentum and ensure ownership toward key business and program goals
- Drive cross-functional collaboration among Product Development, Packaging, Creative, Regulatory & Quality, Operations, and Marketing to keep teams aligned on key milestones and dependencies
- Partner with cross-functional team to develop and maintain detailed timelines tied to omni-channel product and packaging launches
- Ensure timely delivery of product assets by proactively managing project timelines, communicating changes, and resolving issues quickly
- Maintain comprehensive documentation and tracking tools to monitor packaging and formulation development status; manage routing of approvals, timeline updates, and deliverable tracking
- Manage and oversee packaging development from concept to commercialization, ensuring brand aesthetics, consumer usability, sustainability, regulatory compliance, quality, cost targets, and overall alignment with brand standards
- Support development and qualification of packaging components including sourcing, compatibility testing, compliance, and production scalability
- Oversee 3PL partner readiness by ensuring timely SKU setup within fulfillment systems to support product availability and launch execution
- Coordinate with Operations to track actual demand (AD) and shipment transit times (STTs) across 3PLs, ensuring visibility into CX and Influencer sample availability for product launches
- Manage launch readiness for products in back-order status, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams for fulfillment, inventory, and customer experience teams
- Partner with Regulatory to manage international documentation, product registrations, and ensure timely visibility of key deliverables and deadlines
- Provide critical retail support for retail KIs (Sell Sheets and Spec Sheets), and retail line reviews
- Perform additional duties as required to support successful program execution and global initiatives as needed
Requirements
- 5+ years of program or project management experience, with at least 2+ years in full life cycle formulation product development (primary and secondary packaging)
- Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle, especially for CPG or personal care products
- Experience managing timelines and deliverables for formulations development including packaging compatibility, formula readiness, and regulatory requirements
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with executive leadership, packaging designers, program managers, and all roles across the organization
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment while managing multiple initiatives and changing priorities
- In-depth knowledge of packaging materials and development processes
- Highly organized, resourceful, and solution-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities
- Self-starter with a high degree of initiative and ownership, and a strong team collaborator
- Familiarity with project management tools like Asana or similar; ability to quickly adapt to new platforms
- International experience and a global mindset are a plus
