Project Manager, WWGS Marketing Operations Packaging
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
This role requires the ability to influence without authority think strategically while executing tactically and communicate effectively with both peers and senior leadership. You will set and maintain the standard for packaging project delivery excellence across our Private Brands organization.
Key job responsibilities
Own and drive end-to-end delivery of a complex portfolio of Private Brands packaging initiatives ensuring strategic alignment on-time delivery and optimal resource allocation across the artwork development process.
Develop and implement scalable project management methodologies and tools that improve team velocity and simplify ways of working across creative and packaging operations.
Define and maintain intake standards and documentation requirements ensuring project briefs are clear complete and actionable before entering the creative pipeline.
Own the artwork process development lifecycle including documentation RACIs and SOPs across Whole Foods Market Amazon and external agency partners.
Lead strategic planning for macro-level packaging initiatives (rebrands new brand creation portfolio-wide refreshes) with detailed project plans milestones and risk mitigation strategies.
Partner with the Creative Director and Resource Manager to forecast capacity needs and balance resource allocation across creative and project management teams.
Support the label review and approval process coordinating cross-functional sign-offs (regulatory marketing commercialization legal brand quality) to maintain production timelines.
Drive cross-functional prioritization and communicate trade-offs clearly to leadership using product lifecycle and project management tools.
Identify and escalate risks proactively; develop contingency plans that protect critical path deliverables and print deadlines.
Schedule lead and drive outcomes from weekly creative reviews process improvement sessions and stakeholder status meetings.
Cultivate strategic relationships across the organization to remove blockers and accelerate delivery.
About the team
Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh are part of Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS) delivering quality food and innovative shopping experiences to customers across multiple brands and channels. Our Private Brands Packaging PMO team drives the end-to-end artwork development process for our owned-brand portfoliofrom project intake through print-ready delivery.
- 3 years of program or project management experience
- 3 years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- 3 years of developing program strategies and plans diving execution and influencing senior stakeholders experience
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g. pivot tables & charts multiple criteria lookups nested logical/IF formulas data cleansing array formulas etc.)
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- 2 years of industry work experience
- 2 years of working with external suppliers experience
- Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- 1 years of managing packaging artwork development processes including knowledge of packaging materials substrates and print production workflows.
- Proficiency with project management tools (e.g. Smartsheet Asana or equivalent) and product lifecycle management systems.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX AUSTIN - 74200.00 - 129800.00 USD annually
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