Smithfield Foods · 22 hours ago
Product Integration Manager
Smithfield, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expSmithfield Foods is an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products, seeking a Product Integration Manager. This role involves overseeing integration efforts across product categories and manufacturing operations to ensure successful product launches and market success while driving cross-functional collaboration and managing multiple teams.
Food and BeverageHospitality
Responsibilities
You will lead efforts in category expansion by integrating business processes across core product lines and manufacturing operations
You will lead commercialization efforts for product, packaging, and manufacturing changes, ensuring seamless execution from development to market
With a focus on stakeholder alignment, you will establish launch plans, mitigate risks, propose achievable timelines, and hold teams accountable to meet deadlines
Your leadership will ensure projects are executed on time and within quality standards, proactively driving solutions for successful market fulfillment
You will serve as an internal expert in project management and product commercialization, creating optimized timelines and leading teams to achieve product launch objectives
You will provide effective project management solutions that support business growth, cost reductions, production enhancements, and process simplifications while ensuring visibility of project progress for leadership engagement
You will engage stakeholders to champion implementation solutions and influence action on key deliverables
You will lead cross-functional resources, ensuring clear communication of priorities across manufacturing plants and supporting functions
Additionally, you will assess performance challenges, adapt learnings to continuous improvements, and manage analytics, reporting, and documentation for project performance metrics
You will tackle complex business challenges, anticipate potential issues, lead course corrections, and implement effective solutions to ensure seamless progress
By evaluating project performance, escalating risks, and driving corrective action, you will keep commercialization efforts on track
You will also mitigate financial risks through close collaboration with Plant Operations and Corporate Food Safety Quality Assurance, ensuring the successful implementation of initiatives across core product categories and manufacturing operations
You will drive focus on manufacturing plant readiness for new production, ensuring seamless integration of new equipment with ramp-up and staffing plans
By confirming downtime needs, first production schedules, and start-up priorities, you will optimize operational efficiency
You will also ensure key financial inputs for costing, monitor production ramp-up, and oversee the approval process for first production protocols, ensuring product acceptance for market shipping
Additionally, you will ensure that finished goods are positioned correctly at distribution centers for seamless shipment to customers
You will assess commercialization readiness across product areas, leading the discovery phase to define product codes, specifications, costing, and packaging requirements
You will coordinate cross-functional alignment on project scope, develop a structured roadmap with key milestones, and initiate multiple projects with manufacturing plants and teams
Through analytics tracking, reporting, and documentation management, you will ensure commercialization efforts stay on course and deliver measurable success
You will also initiate and lead process improvement efforts to enhance commercialization effectiveness
Drives a positive employee experience through leadership by way of team development and coaching
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Business Management, Marketing, Food Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Accounting or a related field and 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, required
2+ years of demonstrated experience in team management/development or project leadership, required
Experience in positions of increasing responsibility with a consumer-packaged goods company
Strong work experience grounded in leadership, adaptation, and interpersonal skills
Demonstrated leadership and excellent communication skills, required
Strong project management experience with ability to confirm scope, set direction, develop timeline, and influence action, required
Solution-oriented with proven problem-solving capability, required
Highly organized, efficient, and able to manage business processes as well as understand operational details and financial strategies
Demonstrated understanding of new product launch process and operational impact from concept to commerce which includes evaluating ideas, testing concepts, prioritizing and defining projects, confirming feasibility, driving development completion, leading implementation and delivery to market
Outstanding time management skills and ability to execute across multiple projects
Proficient attention to details with ability to drive the larger scope
Demonstrated decision making, planning and prioritization skills
Great listening skills and highly inquisitive
Action oriented and results driven
Ability to work well with others in fast paced, dynamic environment
Ability to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment
Preferred
Master's Degree, preferred
Demonstrated project management experience, preferred
Team leader with strong influencing skills and confidence to drive accountabilities, preferred
Experience managing and working with Business Management, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Technical Services and Operations Teams, preferred
Benefits
Relocation Package Available
Company
Smithfield Foods
Smithfield Foods is an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$454.11M2025-09-04Post Ipo Secondary· $454.11M
2025-01-28IPO
2013-05-29Acquired
Leadership Team
Shane Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer
Allyson Bouldon
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
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