Project Manager, Commercialization

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 Project Manager, Commercialization independently manages a portfolio of product initiatives from project kickoff through Commercialization Readiness. This role converts business priorities into clear project plans, aligned timelines, accountable actions, and executable launch decisions.

The Project Manager serves as the day-to-day cross-functional leader across Product & Innovation, Marketing, Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Commercial, and regional market teams.

This role is accountable for maintaining project momentum, anticipating risks, driving decisions, and ensuring teams remain aligned against key milestones and business commitments. The Project Manager applies consistent governance and operational rigor while adapting to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

This position reports into the Commercialization organization and contributes to stronger, more scalable commercialization practices.

What You’ll Be Working On

Independent Portfolio Ownership

• Independently manage a defined portfolio of commercialization projects from kickoff through Commercialization Readiness.
• Build, maintain, and communicate integrated cross-functional project timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Translate business priorities into clear project plans with defined ownership, timing, and decision requirements.
• Own the day-to-day project cadence, stakeholder communication, follow-up, and escalation process.
• Maintain accurate visibility to project status, critical-path activities, open decisions, and readiness.
• Balance multiple concurrent projects and changing priorities while protecting key business commitments.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead recurring project meetings and working sessions that drive alignment, accountability, and timely execution.
• Coordinate across Marketing, Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Commercial, and regional teams.
• Clarify roles, actions, decisions, and due dates so teams understand what is required to move projects forward.
• Facilitate productive discussions around project trade-offs, dependencies, timing, and execution options.
• Document decisions and ensure agreed actions are completed or appropriately escalated.
• Build strong working relationships and influence results without relying on direct authority.

Proactive Risk Management

• Identify project risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies early in the commercialization process.
• Maintain clear risk and decision tracking, including owners, mitigation plans, timing, and business impact.
• Bring the right stakeholders together to resolve issues before they affect launch timing, production, inventory, cost, regulatory readiness, or commercial commitments.
• Escalate unresolved risks with clear context, options, recommendations, and required decisions.
• Monitor changes to scope, timing, cost, or technical requirements and assess downstream impact across the project plan.
• Maintain transparency so leadership and project teams have an accurate view of project health and priority risks.

Operational Rigor & Commercialization Readiness

• Apply commercialization governance, stage-gate requirements, and readiness criteria consistently across assigned projects.
• Prepare and facilitate key milestone reviews, stage gates, and Commercialization Readiness discussions.
• Ensure required deliverables, approvals, decisions, and operational inputs are completed before projects progress.
• Partner with Supply Planning and Manufacturing to incorporate capacity, production lead times, sourcing requirements, and operational constraints into project plans.
• Maintain organized project documentation, action logs, decision records, and status reporting.
• Support a disciplined handoff into operational execution while maintaining communication through launch stabilization.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify recurring execution gaps, process inefficiencies, and opportunities to simplify commercialization ways of working.
• Apply standard tools, templates, reporting, and governance practices across the portfolio.
• Capture lessons learned and share practical recommendations that improve future project execution.
• Support improvements to project management tools, stage-gate processes, readiness criteria, and portfolio reporting.
• Help strengthen transparency, accountability, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration across commercialization.

Must Haves

• 5-7 years of experience in commercialization, new product development, project management, program management, product innovation, supply chain, or a related cross-functional role.
• Experience independently managing multiple concurrent projects within a fast-paced, highly cross-functional organization.
• Beauty, cosmetics, personal care, consumer products, or related industry experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end product commercialization lifecycle from concept through readiness and launch execution.
• Experience building and managing integrated project timelines, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Experience leading cross-functional meetings, stage gates, readiness reviews, and decision-making discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks early, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues clearly.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Clear and concise communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and maintain momentum through changing priorities.
• Solutions-oriented mindset with sound judgment and a strong sense of accountability.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and web-based project or portfolio management tools.

Core Measures of Success

• Assigned portfolio is managed with clear ownership, accurate timelines, and consistent visibility.
• Cross-functional teams understand priorities, decisions, dependencies, and required actions.
• Risks are identified early and resolved or escalated before they affect business commitments.
• Projects meet commercialization readiness requirements before transitioning into operational execution.
• Governance, documentation, and reporting are consistent, practical, and decision-oriented.
• Lessons learned are translated into stronger processes and more efficient ways of working.

Salary Range

$100,000 - $120,000 USD

Why Sol de Janeiro?

• Competitive salary and bonus program for full-time team members
• Flexible hybrid work environment with opportunities for collaboration and growth
• Inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and celebrates individuality
• The chance to be part of a fast-growing, award-winning global beauty brand

The information contained herein is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee, as these may change or new ones may be assigned at any time.

Sol de Janeiro is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Requests for accommodation due to a disability or any other protected characteristic can be made at any stage of the recruitment process and during employment by contacting our People Experience Team at careers@soldejaneiro.com.

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