Associate Project Manager, Marketing & Innovation

Work Shift: Day Pay Type: Salary Hourly Rate (if applicable): N/A Targeted Base Salary Range (if applicable): $61,200.00 - $79,400.00 JOB OVERVIEW: Help bring Blue Diamond’s next products, packaging and business ideas to market while building a career in project leadership. This is an early-career development role with real project ownership. You’ll lead defined projects from the start, with coaching as needed, and take on increasingly complex work as your skills grow. You’ll work across Marketing, Innovation, R&D, Supply Chain, Sales, Finance and other functions to turn ideas into executable plans, solve barriers and keep teams moving toward launch. Along the way, you’ll build broad exposure to how a CPG business works, develop your leadership and communication skills, and help shape a growing Commercial Project Management function. Built to grow: This role is designed as an entry point into Blue Diamond’s Project Management career path, with increasing project complexity, leadership responsibility and senior-level exposure as capability develops. RESPONSIBILITIES: ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: What You’ll Do: Own defined commercialization and business projects from project start through completion, including product renovations, packaging changes, line extensions and other lower-complexity initiatives. Build and drive integrated project plans, aligning milestones, owners, dependencies and timing across cross-functional teams. Lead cross-functional project teams - facilitate productive meetings, drive follow-through and keep teams focused on the decisions and actions needed to move forward. Manage project scope, timing and commercialization budgets, identifying changes, risks and barriers early and escalating when support or decisions are needed. Turn issues into action by tracking risks, decisions and dependencies and helping teams identify practical paths forward. Lead projects through Blue Diamond’s Idea-to-Launch (I2L) Stage Gate process, ensuring project requirements, documentation and Gate readiness are complete and accurate. Communicate project health clearly and concisely, including progress, risks, business impact, recommendations and decisions needed. Support higher-complexity projects led by team members to build exposure to more challenging commercialization work and senior stakeholders. Help improve how we work, bringing forward practical ideas that make project execution simpler, faster and more effective.   How You Lead: Positive and solutions-oriented - brings constructive energy to challenges and helps teams see a path forward. Proactive and accountable - takes ownership, follows through and addresses issues before they become bigger problems. Confident and collaborative - comfortable bringing people together, asking strong questions and leading without formal authority. Clear communicator - simplifies information, adapts to the audience and communicates what matters most. Organized without losing the…