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Project Manager, Consumer Products – Maternal Care
Willow Innovations
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Key highlights
- 6+ years of experience required
- 3+ years of project/program management in consumer products/electronics required
- Experience with full product lifecycle from concept to launch required
- Familiarity with maternal health, baby, or wellness products is a plus
Role overview
Willow is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead new product development for our consumer maternal care product line. This role involves collaboration across various teams to bring innovative products to market that meet the needs of mothers. The Program Manager will manage the entire product lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring alignment across technical and business functions.
Responsibilities
- Manage complex cross-functional consumer product programs, driving new product development, packaging, and sustaining initiatives from concept to launch.
- Collaborate with industrial design, engineering, marketing, and supply chain to define product requirements, set priorities, and establish scope, budget, and timelines.
- Be a force-multiplier for functional leads to resolve issues, by identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks, and proactively removing obstacles.
- Partner with marketing and customer insights teams to incorporate voice-of-customer feedback from moms throughout the development process.
- Coordinate packaging, retail, and DTC launch readiness activities, including go-to-market timelines and cross-functional launch reviews.
- Develop recommendations, gain alignment, and proactively facilitate decision making across engineering, marketing, and operations stakeholders.
- Manage supplier and contract manufacturer relationships in partnership with supply chain to ensure on-time, on-quality delivery.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience, with 3+ years of project or program management in consumer products or consumer electronics.
- Experience bringing consumer hardware or CPG products through the full lifecycle, from concept to retail/DTC launch and sustaining.
- Experience partnering with marketing, industrial design, and supply chain teams to launch products on time and on budget.
- An ability to communicate technical problems and solutions clearly to diverse audiences at all levels of the organization.
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- An agile project management style, approach, and execution.
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools (e.g. SmartSheet, JIRA/Atlassian), methodologies, and best practices.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree or higher preferred, or equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with the maternal health, baby, or wellness product category is a plus.
- Experience using Atlassian tools such as JIRA & Confluence for project management, analysis, and reporting.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification preferred.
Additional details
- Willow is a platform for products that help improve the lives and health of women. We are a mission-driven team of experienced inventors, mothers, and fathers dedicated to making a difference in women’s lives.
- The Willow™ Wearable Breast Pump, selected as one of TIME's 25 Best Inventions in 2017 and 2018 CES Innovation Award for Wearable Technologies, is the first solution in our platform.
- Willow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.