Trü Frü · 1 week ago
Project Manager - Tru Fru
Salt Lake City, UT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expTrü Frü is a Utah-based company known for its innovative fruit-based snacks. As a Project Manager, you will lead projects related to commercialization and innovation, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and ensure successful project execution.
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
An experienced program and project manager with a proven track record of results
Effective at influencing without authority across diverse functional teams
Experienced in managing change and ambiguity across cross-functional teams
A strong collaborator who drives change, influences effectively, and builds alignment across teams
Highly organized and capable of managing complex projects and multiple priorities
A clear and compelling communicator, both written and verbal
A strong problem solver with a bias for action in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
Comfortable leading cross-functional teams in resource-constrained, multi-stakeholder settings
Flexible, forward-thinking, and solutions-oriented, with an owner's mindset
Committed to excellence, quality, professionalism, and ethical conduct
Driven, curious, level-headed, and quick to learn
Passionate about trü frü and healthy snacking
Benefits
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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