Associate Product Lifecycle Manager

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end product lifecycle activities including renovations, transitions, and delistings.
• Ensure changes are executed efficiently while minimizing write-offs, obsolescence, and excess inventory.
• Lead multiple new product launch projects post-approval, ensuring alignment to the approved business case in partnership with finance.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution to ensure launches are delivered on time, in full, and without aged or stranded inventory.
• Track launch readiness, risks, and post-launch performance.
• Act as the single source of truth for product lifecycle plans, timelines, and decisions.
• Align cross-functional teams around one integrated product plan, reducing confusion and duplication.
• Proactively identify technical, operational, or supply chain risks related to launches, renovations, or delistings.
• Drive mitigation plans in collaboration with relevant functional teams to protect service, cost, and inventory outcomes.
• Required Skills:
• Experience in product lifecycle management within CPG or Manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of product launches and cross-functional execution.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities.
• Collaborates: Builds strong relationships and works effectively across functions to achieve shared objectives.
• Product Lifecycle & Change Management: Strong understanding of launch, transition, and delisting processes.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Ability to manage complex interdependencies across Supply Chain, Operations, and Commercial teams.
• Analytical Thinking: Uses data to identify risks, trade-offs, and optimization opportunities.
• Execution Excellence: Delivers against timelines and business cases in a fast-moving environment.
• Problem Solving & Risk Management: Anticipates issues and drives practical mitigation actions.
• Project Management: strong project management and administration skills
• Please note this role as a new vacancy.
• Salary Range
• $70,000 - $90,000 CAD
• Please note this role is an existing vacancy.
• Salary Range
• $70,000 - $90,000 CAD
• What we expect:
• Values-led: You'll be a member of a thoughtful and compassionate team that prioritizes respect, teamwork and resourcefulness along with a good dash of fun. Sometimes, even making granola bars is hard, and life's too short to take ourselves so seriously that we don't enjoy the journey.
• Personal development : We'll support and empower you to chart your own

Benefits

Additional Information

Join Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., a Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating business, committed to leaving the world better than we found it. As a B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line company, we proudly manufacture nutritious, 'better-for-you' snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO. We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun. We're on an ambitious mission to double our business by 2027, and we need talented individuals like you to help us reach new heights. At Riverside, you'll have the opportunity to chart your own path to success while contributing to ours. We believe anything worth doing is worth doing right, and our values will guide us through the rugged terrain - and yes, it will get rough. But that's what makes the journey worthwhile. So, lace up your boots and let's tackle the climb together. You can learn more about us at www.riversidenaturalfoods.com . Summary: We are seeking an experienced Associate Product Lifecycle Management professional to oversee end-to-end product lifecycle activities, ensuring seamless transitions and efficient execution with minimal inventory impact. This role involves leading new product launches, orchestrating cross-functional teams, and driving product optimization initiatives and reports to the Product Lifecycle Manager.

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