Product Development Project Manager

About the Role: Own project management across New Product Development and Packaging programs, ensuring timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, and next steps are clearly tracked and communicated. Drive cross-functional alignment and follow-through to keep launches on schedule and provide visibility into program status. Build and maintain end-to-end timelines for new product programs, from initial PD brief to finished goods ready for pickup, across Formula, Packaging, Artwork, Regulatory, and Testing. Align internal and vendor timelines, mapping dependencies and critical-path items so conflicts get caught early. Track milestones across active programs and proactively flag schedule, dependency, and execution risks before they affect key dates. Work with project owners to build recovery plans when delays come up, and escalate issues that need leadership decisions or cross-functional resolution. Lead PD timeline meetings and share weekly updates on priorities, upcoming deadlines, risks, and decisions needed. Capture action items with clear owners and due dates, and drive them to completion. Partners closely with program owners, who lead on decisions and program status, while this role owns timing and follow-through Partner with vendors and internal teams to understand what it takes to hit key dates, then turn vendor updates into revised timelines, tasks, and owners. Make sure timing changes, decisions, and approvals are documented and reflected consistently across trackers and timelines. Set up efficient communication rhythms that keep teams aligned and cut down on unnecessary meetings. Partner with PD and Operations on BOM creation and changes. Own internal BOM revisions and send updated BOMs directly to vendors.