Commercial Project Portfolio Manager

Title: Commercial Project Portfolio Manager

Location: Hershey, PA

Pay Level: 2B

This position will be posted internally until the close of business on 11/20/2025

Summary:

Strategic leader of business-critical product portfolio initiatives and portfolio reviews by partnering with various cross-functional groups to support business priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Leads commercial portfolio reviews for the respective business owner (VP/Sr Dir/Dir), in partnership with the portfolio operations team. Provides expert analysis, mines insights, and recommends actions while delivering forward-looking project portfolio visibility and viability, financial assessment, and capacity indicators to drive prioritization and business decisions.
• Controls Stage-Gate process design across Types and Tiers for the respective business portfolio and owns one or more initiatives to continuously improve the Stage-Gate process by identifying enhancements to deliverables, the Accolade system, and/or project portfolio management tools.
• Provides critical leadership role in ensuring the successful development and execution of projects for the commercialization of new and changing products/pack types, actively leading timelines, defining scope, managing resources, holding functions responsible for deliverables, and owning the budget.
• Accountable to deliver profitability and operational success by problem solving, removing roadblocks, elevating risks/issues, developing risk mitigation plans/contingencies, and facilitating decision making to drive projects forward through the stage gate process.
• Project management process expert - owns project execution and adherence to stage gate processes from project initiation (confirming correct project type & tier) through 1st delivery to the customer.
• May manage one or more direct reports.

Core Competencies:

• Strategic portfolio and project management experience (e.g. Conducted portfolio analysis, Managed complex projects with multiple cross-functional team members...)
• Strong overall business management understanding
• Strong resource management and planning
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Process excellence and orientation
• Negotiation and influence
• Drives objective decision-making
• Strong skills in managing multiple priorities
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• SAP experience
• Intermediate to expert level Microsoft Project skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to make timely/sound decisions, and implement agreed upon solutions
• Ability to work under pressure and be comfortable taking ownership of leading a team towards a quick resolution

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required. MBA/Graduate Degree Preferred.
• 5-8+ years of related work experience, preferably in CPG - Product Lifecycle Management
• PMP Certified preferred
• Lean Six Sigma preferred

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