Trü Frü · 6 days ago
Project Manager - Tru Fru
Salt Lake City
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expTrü Frü is a Utah-based company known for its innovative 'better for you' fruit snacks, having joined the Mars family of brands in 2023. As a Project Manager, you will lead critical initiatives supporting growth, including new product development and portfolio optimization while ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams.
ConsumerFood and BeverageSales
Responsibilities
Own and maintain end-to-end project plans, ensuring clear task ownership, dependencies, decision points, and escalation paths across all functions
Proactively identify, assess, and escalate risks and issues using defined PMO escalation paths to enable timely decision-making and minimize downstream impact
Drive cross-functional alignment by facilitating clear decision-making forums, ensuring stakeholders understand priorities, trade-offs, and impacts
Scope, plan, and manage multiple projects by setting goals, building plans, allocating resources and budgets, identifying risks, developing contingency and change-management plans, and defining KPIs
Execute with excellence by maintaining accurate timelines, clarifying responsibilities, anticipating and mitigating risks, tracking KPIs, monitoring progress, and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery while managing stakeholder communication
Lead and organize cross-functional teams to effectively resolve complex issues
Develop a deep understanding of trü frü's innovation, operations, and commercial activities to guide strategic thinking, not just timeline management
Understand the full business case—including consumer insights, financials, marketing needs, and operational and supply-chain impacts—to act as a strong thought partner
Apply and share project management best practices that enable team success
Follow the trü frü stage-gate model and help refine the commercialization process to improve value, speed, and quality in a cost-effective way
Qualification
Required
At least 5 years of experience in program and project management
Experience in CPG, with food industry experience preferred
A Bachelor's degree, with a Master's or MBA a plus
Project Management certification, a plus
Strong understanding of how CPG companies and large retailers operate
Experience with Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
A proven track record of executing programs and projects using a stage-gate process
Experience with Project Management tools such as Monday.com (preferred experience), Smart Sheets, MS Project, etc
Benefits
Competitive salary, including a target bonus and an impressive benefits package!
Flexible Paid Time Off
Excellent health, dental & vision insurance, with options to fit you and your family’s needs.
Long-term disability and short-term disability insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
401K retirement saving opportunity.
Casual office dress code
A dynamic, ambitious, indulgently fun work environment!
Company
Trü Frü
Tru Fru starts with 100% fruit ripened on the vine to enhance taste and nutrition, double immerses it in chocolate, coconut or peanut butter.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-12-19Acquired
Leadership Team
Harvey Millar
CEO
Brady Anderton
Chief Marketing Officer
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