Manager, Product Commercialization - Onsite (Atlanta, GA)

Our Customer is an American multinational beverage corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Their many interests include the manufacturing, retailing, and marketing of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. They are passionate about beverages around the world, with around 200 brands and 700,000+ employees across the company and bottling partners. They take deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in their company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. They believe their culture is one of the reasons their company continues to thrive after 130+ years.

We are seeking a Manager, Product Commercialization on a contract basis who will support the Customer’s business needs. This role is 100% onsite in Atlanta, GA.

NOTE: Candidates must have their own laptops, the customer is not providing laptops to contractors at this time.

Role Overview:

• In this role, you will serve as the technical lead for commercialization activities, helping ensure successful execution across food service and aRTD categories.
• You’ll work cross-functionally to navigate challenges, manage risk, and keep projects moving efficiently from development through launch.
• This assignment is ideal for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, managing complexity, and collaborating across multiple functions.
• It also offers strong exposure to system operations, manufacturing capabilities, and commercialization processes while building relationships across the business.

In this role, you will:

• Manage commercialization activities across multiple categories and formats including dispensed (legacy, FCB, FUB), flavored syrups, Freestyle and aRTD including managing AIM(Authorized Independent Manufacturers and directed model business partners, each with distinct operational and technical requirements.
• Adapt technical documentation and launch support to meet customer or partner-specific needs while maintaining system standards and compliance.
• Collaborate with external manufacturing facilities to review and assess production capabilities and coordinate plant trials (when necessary) to validate feasibility.
• Support onboarding new facilities into organization commercialization processes.
• Provide technical guidance and education to co-manufacturing partners on areas such as batching, kitting, mixing instructions, and production requirements.
• Exercise technical judgment to determine appropriate levels of support, clarify ownership responsibilities, and ensure alignment between system expectations and partner execution capabilities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve technical and operational gaps that arise during commercialization and launch execution.
• Support continuous improvement of processes, documentation, and ways of working across evolving business models and commercialization approaches.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the commercialization of new products and reformulations of existing products. Function as technical project leader for all commercialization activities ensuring successful project completion.
• Develop and designs Plant formulations and Mixing Instructions and validates batching capability. Maintenance of the KOMIX formulation system.
• Develops, designs and issues all technical and product information for the successful launch or new/reformulated products to the system including: formulations, mixing instructions, graphic numbers, SAP info, shelf life, ECCnet information and various other piece of info.
• Proactively manages issues with on time delivery of ingredients from CPS and communication to project leads in Canada of any launch date risks.
• Act as scientific, technical or quality expert and consultant by responding to targeted questions from the field or other departments/business units and providing support to bottlers and customers.
• This includes acting as a resource for general information and acting as a consultant for other technical personnel in the Company.
• Provide support to product development to inform them of existing system capabilities and determine requirements for new product types where capability does not exist.
• Attend plant trial runs to ensure production capability.
• Responsible for packaging components in Picasso system and ensuring accuracy.

Qualifications:

• 3 years of prior work experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods company
• Strong ability to work on their own and take initiative
• Proven ability to think through the consequences of actions under consideration.
• Strong communication skills to influence, negotiate, seek consensus and provide recommendations, solutions and improvements to existing products and processes.
• Proven project manager
• Proven ability to manage time well; handle multiple complex tasks at once
• Strong capability to analyze conceptual information
• Educational Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree / University Degree in Science or a related field

Competencies - Leader of Self:

• Develop Self and Others
• Act like an Owner
• Collaborate with System, Customer and Stakeholders
• Drive Innovation
• Inspire Others

Travel Requirements:

• 10%

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has experience in — or curiosity about — manufacturing capabilities and the system network.
• Thrives working independently and taking initiative.
• Brings strong project management and prioritization skills.
• Communicates confidently and collaborates effectively across teams.
• Thinks analytically and proactively solves problems.
• Can balance technical precision with speed and business needs.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.