Project Manager - New Product Development

Join Culimer, a company revolutionizing the seafood industry through sustainable sourcing and innovative solutions that benefit both people and the planet. Committed to enriching society through food, we responsibly source and deliver the highest-quality sushi and sushi ingredients. At this stage of our growth, you'll have a direct impact on building the company and establishing processes from the ground up. This offers you significant opportunities to learn and grow. Our purpose encompasses People, Planet, and Profit, driving us to create a positive impact on our employees, our communities, and the world around us. We are driven by core values of excellence, accountability, and trust, which are fundamental to our operations. Culimer's flagship product is ultra low temperature tuna. If you are passionate about food, sustainability, and contributing to a dynamic and growing team, we encourage you to apply and join us on this exciting journey!

The purpose of this role is to manage and accelerate our New Product Development (NPD) process. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally to meet deadlines, document milestones, and update leadership on progress. Completing actions to move projects forward will be just as critical as managing the various project members. The direct result of this role is an increase in new product launches, a decreased project lifecycle, and increased revenue from new products.

Specific accountabilities are:

Attribute

Metric

Scaling and Speeding up the product development cycle

Speed to Market

Define and Meet project timelines

On time completion of project milestones

Define project plan for each new product

100% of new product projects have documented plan

Manage resource planning

Effectively staff each milestone of each project

Organize and lead required meetings for project teams as well as updates for management

Ensured alignment on projects and status

Requirements

• 1-3 years in project management
• Strong knowledge of Asana
• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or similar desired
• Food or Import/Export preferred, open to other industries based on fit
• Adaptability to changing circumstances and the ability to handle unexpected challenges
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple detailed tasks and ensure smooth operation
• Strong project planning and management skills to create detailed project plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Ability to work with different departments such as quality assurance operations, product experts, marketing, sales, and manufacturing to ensure seamless collaboration with global stakeholders
• This is an in-office position, located in Ridgefield, New Jersey
  
  

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life/AD&D

401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting

PTO

Paid holidays