Project Lead, Launch Team

Overview

The Project Lead will support Supply Chain's partnership with Innovation & New Ventures and Consumer Packaged Goods. By working closely with cross-functional stakeholders including Innovation & New Ventures, Consumer Packaged Goods, Menu Strategy, Legal, and Culinary, this role will execute scopes, timelines, and objectives in accordance with Supply Chain capabilities. This role will partner with their leader and cross functional partners to identify, vet, and contract suppliers to ensure food safety, continuity, quality, and stewardship objectives are met and tradeoffs are aligned upon organizationally.

Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

• Partner with Innovation & New Ventures (and other cross-functional partners) to support growing business streams such as Little Blue Menu concepts
• Partner to implement a portfolio of Consumer Packaged Goods products nationwide
• Identify suppliers that can meet need, vet capabilities to serve the brand, solicit samples/prototypes, provide feedback from business evaluation, and communicate budgetary targets and timelines
• Participate in development agreement negotiation as necessary working with supplier and legal counsel both internal and external to CFA
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the organization
• Bring potential new products/technology from suppliers to attention of stakeholders in production design teams
• Interact with potential suppliers to determine capacity, quality & budget required to successfully Launch programs
• Ensure project tasks are clearly communicated and executed on time.
• Report project status to key stakeholders and leadership, escalating high risk situations as needed
• Execute seamless, disruption-free implementation of tests and rollouts

• Bachelor's Degree: 3.5 or higher GPA in Business, Consulting, Communications, Marketing, Supply Chain or related field
• 3+ years of experience
• Proven experience in building and/or managing programs
• Strong interpersonal relationship skills
• Ability to lead a cross functional team towards a common goal
• Possess Supply Chain Management knowledge and expertise
• Skilled at problem solving and conflict management
• Excellent communication/presentation skills
• Proficiency in vendor contract negotiation
• Highly organized
• Have a solid understand of Marketing/Menu & Packaging

• Prior Chick-fil-A experience
• Supply Chain Project Management experience
• Consumer Packaged Goods background