Commercialization Manager

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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 demonstrated skill in driving execution of corrective actions.
• Able to travel 50% of the time as dictated by business needs

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience working with or through supply chain, in a quality assurance department, in marketing, and/or portfolio management processes
• Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Experience engaging with product design and understanding how specifications are defined
• Experience with quality and statistical applications such as Minitab or Northwest Analytics (NWA) and /or reporting tools such as Tableau or Qlik.
• Project Management Certification (PMP)
• Six-Sigma Certification

For this role, we anticipate paying $120k - $160k per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).