Commercialization Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is looking for a Commercialization Manager to join the Consumer Product Group (CPG) Quality team! The CPG Commercialization Manager is responsible for conducting commercialization trials for capability and qualification confirmations in support of new product launches, packaging changes, and introduction of new equipment.

This role ensures trials and qualification runs are planned and executed through building and sustaining relationships and being the preferred partner with multiple stakeholders including Operations, Brand, R&D, and Quality.

This role is a remote opportunity with a minimum of 50% travel in North America.

Our Team

The Quality Team is responsible for leading and influencing quality to meet production expectations, minimize variation in our products and processes, drive quality improvements and develop quality talent through the use of project management and statistical tools.

The group's combined talents complement each other to optimize and ensure operational, brand, and commercialization support that enable virtuous cycles of mutual benefit.

What You Will Do


* Leading quality processes that ensure that CPG products and changes to our products are brought to market efficiently and effectively.


* Evaluating the product against acceptance criteria and determining if trial goals are met to ensure sustainable production.


* Enabling the performance of CPG products to be integrated into operational discipline, resulting in reduced losses, accomplished by using process tools that identify losses, uncover root cause and lead operations to effective corrective action which prevents reoccurrence.


* Trouble shooting and problem resolution as required to meet the success criteria during the runs.


* Organize and lead the total project PPA (Potential Problem Analysis) for large and complex projects including multiple disciplines (ie.

Brand, Ops, Supply Chain, Product Development).

The goal is to lay out critical potential problems and drive the team to mitigation and resolution steps to buy down risks for project executions.


* Collaborating with other stakeholders to fully understand the failure mode and the appropriate corrective actions.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Experience using statistical tools like ANOVA, Cpk, Ppk and SPC charts


* Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects, including scheduling and executing trials, writing trial and production qualification plans, and summarizing results with conclusions.


* Experience working in an industrial manufacturing environment for consumer products with knowledge on towel, tissue, and/or board papermaking and converting.


* Experience executing quality processes (change management, CAPA/RCA, and continuous improvement) and in using quality information systems for managing product specifications.


* Experience leading cross-functional teams in the identification of root causes and demonstrate...