Senior Manager, Project Management - New Product Launch

About this role

Our Story

Launched in 2015, Sol de Janeiro is a globally recognized, award-winning beauty brand, drawing inspiration from Brazil’s beauty rituals, warmth, and spirit. Sol de Janeiro delivers a sensory experience beloved by multi-generational consumers worldwide, with clinically proven results, transformative textures, and transportive fragrances.

Headquartered in New York and launched as a digitally native brand, we have expanded globally with teams in Paris, London, and Germany. Our commitment to excellence has earned high-profile honors, including being named one of TIME100’s 2024 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s 2024 World's Most Innovative Companies, and WWD Beauty Inc’s Power Brands of 2024, underscoring its leadership in the beauty industry and outstanding workplace. These accolades highlight our dedication to being a leading brand in the beauty industry and an exceptional workplace.

What You’ll Do

The Senior Manager, Project Management - New Product Launch is responsible for leading enterprise commercialization governance and cross-functional orchestration for new product launches from concept through Commercialization Readiness.

This role serves as the central integrator across Product & Innovation, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Creative, Marketing, Supply Chain, Procurement, and regional market teams to ensure launches progress with clear alignment, visibility, accountability, and decision-making.

This role owns integrated commercialization timelines, milestone governance, stage gate management, portfolio visibility, and cross-functional coordination across a dynamic global launch pipeline. The Manager plays a critical role in balancing speed, complexity, and executional rigor while supporting launches across diverse international markets with varying regulatory, operational, localization, and supply chain requirements.

The role partners closely with Supply Planning Launch Specialists, who assume operational commercialization ownership following the Commercialization Readiness Gate. Together, these functions ensure a seamless transition from innovation development into operational execution, launch readiness, and stabilization.

This position reports to the Director of Launch Project Management and is a key contributor to continuously evolving Sol de Janeiro’s commercialization capabilities, governance processes, and cross-functional ways of working

What You’ll Be Working On

These duties may be reviewed and modified from time to time based on mutual needs.

Commercialization Governance & Timeline Management

• Own and maintain integrated cross-functional commercialization timelines for multiple global product launches simultaneously.

• Lead commercialization governance processes and stage gate management from concept through Commercialization Readiness.

• Ensure launch timelines accurately reflect dependencies across Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Artwork, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and regional market requirements.

• Drive timeline integrity through proactive milestone tracking, issue identification, stakeholder accountability, and decision management.

• Serve as the primary owner of launch communication cadence and portfolio visibility to key business stakeholders.

• Maintain enterprise visibility to launch status, critical path activities, risks, dependencies, and key business decisions.

Commercialization & Decision Management

• Own and facilitate key commercialization governance forums, ensuring appropriate stakeholder participation, decision-making, accountability, and follow-through.

• Lead strategic launch meetings and cross-functional working sessions to drive alignment on priorities, risks, critical path activities, and launch readiness.

• Drive timely resolution of cross-functional issues by identifying required decisions, documenting outcomes, assigning actions, and escalating unresolved risks when appropriate.

• Manage commercialization stage gates, ensuring readiness criteria are achieved, decisions are documented, and stakeholders are aligned prior to progression.

• Establish clear governance around launch risks, assumptions, dependencies, and mitigation plans throughout the commercialization lifecycle.

• Maintain visibility to portfolio-level risks and proactively facilitate discussions to support prioritization and resource allocation decisions.

Cross-Functional Launch Orchestration

• Lead recurring cross-functional launch meetings, ensuring alignment on priorities, risks, actions, and critical path activities.

• Coordinate closely with Marketing, Creative, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, and regional market teams to align launch execution requirements.

• Partner with Packaging Engineering and Creative teams to ensure artwork development, localization, translation, and approval processes are aligned with launch timelines.

• Collaborate with Supply Planning Launch Specialists to ensure operational feasibility inputs are incorporated into commercialization plans.

• Partner with Supply Planning Launch Specialists to ensure manufacturing capacity requirements, production lead times, and operational readiness assumptions are reflected within commercialization timelines.

• Collaborate with Launch Specialists and Manufacturing teams to understand capacity constraints, industrialization requirements, and production timing needed to support launch commitments.

• Incorporate production planning assumptions into commercialization schedules to ensure launch dates remain executable and aligned with manufacturing realities.

• Facilitate effective communication across internal teams and external partners to support successful commercialization execution.

Cost Governance & Commercialization Economics

• Partner with Procurement, Packaging Engineering, Product Development, and Supply Planning teams to establish and maintain launch cost assumptions throughout commercialization.

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