PLM Project Coordinator
Goodfood Market Corp., Canada
Job Description
Goodfood (TSX:FOOD) is a leading online grocery service in Canada, delivering fresh meal solutions that make it easy for members from coast to coast to enjoy delicious meals at home every week. Goodfood’s mission is to make the impossible come true, from farm to kitchen, by enabling members to do their weekly meal planning and grocery shopping in minutes. Goodfood members get access to a unique selection of products online as well as exclusive pricing made possible by its world-class direct-to-consumer fulfillment ecosystem. Goodfood currently has more than 200,000 active subscribers and over 2,000 dedicated and passionate employees across Canada.
Reporting to the PLM Manager, theProduct lifecycle management (PLM) Project Coordinator is responsible for the execution of culinary innovations and market product offerings. You will collaborate with various cross-functional teams with a highly agile environment.
This role is accepting candidates from both the Montreal or Toronto region.
Job Responsibilities:
- Executing the product lifecycle management (PLM) strategy by providing viable solutions and implementing into daily processes;
- Planning and tracking team progress to ensure milestones of key projects are completed on time and within planned margins;
- Coordinating testing and evaluation of newly developed recipes or packaging solutions and communicating required adjustments to internal teams;
- Carrying out post product launch performance reviews to ensure adherence to initially established formulas or recipes;
- Monitoring and reporting of inaccuracies or deviations within bill of materials (BOM) requiring action;
- Coordinating schedules with planning, operations and sourcing teams to deliver implementation of new recipes or sellable goods;
- Acting as a key point of communication for all changes, delays and technical or commercial issues that may arise during the new product development project;
- Collecting inputs on options, timelines and availability from cross-functional teams (sourcing, planning, operations, quality) to ensure accuracy in new recipe development.
- Other duties as assigned, within supply chain function
Desired skills and experience:
- Experience as a project coordinator with a focus on new product launches within the grocery or retail industries;
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with product teams within budgetary and schedule constraints;
- Internal and external stakeholder management in an agile or just-in-time (JIT) work environment;
- Capacity to handle ad-hoc requests or time sensitive ad-ons to planned projects;
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with teams across the organization;
- Proactive, intrapreneurial aptitudes allowing you to work autonomously with little oversight;
- Bilingualism: English and French (an asset);
- Bachelor degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or other relevant major (an asset).
Why Goodfood?
Our team strives to give our members a world class customer experience. We believe in being ambassadors of the brand to make the impossible come true from the farm to table!
What we have to offer our employees:
- Competitive Group Insurance;
- Personal No Questions asked days;
- Bonus program;
- Annual fitness credit;
- Employee Stock option program;
- Employee STM program (Montreal only) amp; more!