Manager, Commercial Operations Project & Enablement

ABOUT US

OLIPOP was founded in 2017 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester. Ben and David have been working together for nearly a decade to find accessible solutions to bring the benefits of digestive health to as many consumers as possible.  OLIPOP is a deliciously refreshing tonic that is crafted with prebiotics, botanicals, and natural plant fiber to support your microbiome and benefit digestive health. We're on a mission to provide an affordable, delicious alternative to soda that delivers leading-edge health benefits to mainstream consumers.

OUR TEAM

At Olipop our values lead the way we create our products, engage with each other, and interact with our community. While we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in personal development. We’re tightly knit, we’re genuine and we’re always pushing the envelope to do a better job than we did the day before. Our team is also fully remote, requiring us to be resourceful, creative and collaborative to support our fast-moving business.

To best serve our diverse community of customers, we also seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Working at a start-up can be as much a personal journey as it is a professional one. To succeed at a company like Olipop, you must be comfortable with failing, learning, and adapting. You need to be curious, optimistic, and able to find a way when it seems impossible. You must be confident enough to express your ideas but humble and open to learning from your experiences and from others. If this is the approach you take to life, then we’d love to hear from you.

OLIPOP is searching for a highly organized and systems driven Manager, Commercial Operations Project & Enablement  to join our team to play a critical role in organizing, managing, and building key initiatives & systems to support both our commercial and sales teams. This leader will maintain, develop, and execute the structures and systems that drive effective sales enablement to impact the commercial strategies across the business.

This role will cross-functionally work with the national key account, field sales, shopper marketing, and supply chain teams to ensure the key information, initiatives, projects, and enablement tools are being effectively trained and communicated out to the sales & commercial organizations.

It will be critical that your management style is aligned with our company values and you’re able to adapt, grow, and build best-in-class approaches to organizing key projects & enablement tools that impact our team and our business. If you’re looking for a fast paced environment, an opportunity for personal growth and responsibility, and enjoy having fun along the way, then this is a role you’ll thrive in!

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Humility, Aspiration, Commitment, Integrity- our OLIPOP company values. Start-Up is as much a personal journey as it is a professional one. We can teach you functional skills but we can’t change the way that you view and interact with the world. To succeed at a company like this you need to be able to fail, learn, adapt and fail again. You need to be able to keep going when others would likely give up. You need to be able to find a way when it seems impossible. You need to be humble enough to learn and confident enough to express yourself. If this is how you’ve lived your life, if these are the lessons your lived experiences have taught you then we’d love to hear from you.

WHAT YOU DON’T NEED

An MBA or a College degree. Our founders don’t have them and we don’t expect you to either.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Sales Support 

• Serve as brand and product expert, train new hires and 3rd parties 
• Own, manage, and update all 3rd party portals
• Maintain all product and portfolio assets for the sale team

Project & Roadmap Management

• Oversee all phases of the project lifecycle, from initiation (brief stage) and planning to execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the project lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks
• Assign and monitor resources to ensure project efficiency and maximize deliverables
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan
• Making effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project
• Serving as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy

Process Improvement

• Utilize project management software and tools to plan, track, and report on project activities.
• Structure and manage integrated, multitrack performance databases for customer, asset, project, tech, budget management, and sales tool efficiencies
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including initial project brief, project roadmaps, status reports, and post-project evaluations.
• Ensure that change requests are documented, evaluated, and approved by stakeholders before implementation.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to optimize operational workflows and advise on enhancements.
• Implement best practices and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project efficiency and effectiveness.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Engage with key stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations and ensure their involvement throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with third-party resources, including vendors, partners, & brokers
• Provide regular updates to cross functional teams on project status and metrics
• Assign and monitor resources to ensure project efficiency and maximize deliverables

Soft Skills

• Self-motivated with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communicator who collaborates well with diverse teams and partners.
• Organized and detail-oriented, capable of managing multiple priorities.

Hard Skills

• Proficient in project management and production tools (Asana)
• 4+ years of project management or sales enablement role
• Experience in managing and/or helping shape the development of web technologies and software platforms for maximum usability
• Humility, Aspiration, Commitment, Integrity, Engaged Empathy- our OLIPOP company values.
• Enthusiastic and comfortable working in an early stage company. Ability to think rapidly in a growing and changing environment.
• The ability to produce accurate work quickly & efficiently, and with excellent follow-up communication
• Agile in determining and managing priorities, and adaptable in a fluid and fast paced environment

Reports to:  Director, Sales Operations

Compensation: $120,000-$130,000 base salary + bonus

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  Olipop does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more information, please see EEO is the Law.