PROJECT MANAGER

Grecian Delight | Kronos Foods (“GDK”) stands at the forefront as a premier provider of authentic Greek and Mediterranean cuisine. Our portfolio, featuring gyros, specialty meats, pitas, flatbreads, tzatziki, hummus, spreads, falafel, ready-to-eat and plant-based proteins, along with value-added bakery products, reflects our commitment to quality and authenticity. Serving over 400 foodservice distributors, 30,000 independent and national chain restaurants, and marking our presence in the top 40 U.S. retailers, we continue to enrich dining experiences with the flavors of the Mediterranean.

Our Vision: Continue to be the leader in Greek, Mediterranean and inspired world cuisine. We strive to have every table or menu in the world serving up our delicious flavors.

Our Mission: To be top of mind with our customers as the preferred and trusted company of choice, by delivering mutual value, and acting with a sense of urgency.

Our Guiding Principles:

Customer Centricity: Put the customer at the heart of the business,

Ownership and Empathy: Act like owners, think like customers,

Conscious leadership: Leading with awareness, kindness, and courage,

Competitive Spirit: Playing to win.

As members of the GDK family, we seek individuals who resonate with our vision, mission, and guiding principles. Your alignment with these core values enables us to maintain our legacy of excellence and innovation. We encourage you to embrace our commitment to customer satisfaction, ownership, leadership, and competitive spirit. Together, we will continue to bring the rich flavors of the Mediterranean to the world, fostering a culture of respect, growth, and shared success.

What you are going to be doing…

Provide overall Project Management responsibility for product innovation projects, customer-based projects, product changes and cost savings opportunities that contribute to business growth, brand maintenance and efficiency initiatives.

• Lead commercialization projects within the organization and align key resources at all levels of the organization to ensure timely completion of project deliverables.
• Utilize the company’s process and other existing tools to manage multiple development projects from project approval to customer delivery.
• Clearly define, manage, and control project requirements, scope, and timelines. Ensure there is cross-functional alignment on project objectives and deliverables. Build project schedules by identifying sequence of activities, duration, resource availability, and schedule constraints.
• Lead effective project team meetings. Encourage cross-functional collaboration, provide direction to project team, outline priorities, assign tasks as needed, and address issues/risks impacting projects.
• Actively manage and communicate detailed project trackers ensuring all impacted functional teams and stakeholders have an understanding of risks, issues and activities related to the projects.
• Report out key project management metrics to various functions and levels, develop and assist the team in drawing out “plan B” options, escalate issues and risks in a timely manner to stay on schedule.
• Assist in driving efficiency efforts, including SKU management, ingredient, and packaging consolidation.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and a variety of complicated tasks at the same time and prioritize tasks; organized.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for interacting and collaborating within all levels of the organization from line employees to management team, and across functional areas (R&D, sales, quality, marketing, etc.) to resolve conflict and proactively address issues.
• Ability to express technical information in a user-friendly language and style; detail-oriented; strong documentation skills; present information effectively in one-on-one, and group settings, including management.
• Strong ability to communicate clearly in writing to document requirements and translate into technical solutions.

What you need to have…

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, food science, marketing or other related discipline.
• A minimum of 2 years’ project management experience is required.
• Formal certification in Project Management (from PMI or equivalent Project Management Association) a plus.
• Advanced PC skills using Microsoft Office products and MS Project is a requirement, along with the ability to generate graphs, presentations, and charts.
• Proven experience and a background successfully completing large and complex projects on time and within budget is required.

Why work with us…

At Grecian Delight | Kronos Foods, we understand that fulfilling our mission involves a blend of innovation and reverence for tradition—a challenge that demands exceptional dedication from our team. We hold high expectations, but we are equally committed to supporting our employees. This commitment is reflected in our pledge to provide a respectful work environment, fair compensation, and abundant opportunities for professional growth. Our community standards are built on the pillars of equal employment opportunities, respectful dialogue and actions, integrity, and accountability

What we offer…

Highly competitive compensation and bonus programs

Medical, Dental and Vision options for you and your family

Safe-harbor 401(k) Plan with generous matching and immediate vesting

Life, AD&D, Short and Long-term Disability Programs

Health, Dependent Care, & Commuter Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Account Contributions

Additional Voluntary Benefit Programs

Paid Vacations and Holidays

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Grecian Delight | Kronos Foods Corp is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.