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About the role
As an Associate Manager, Planning & Business Operations, you will provide tactical project management support across our product portfolio, ensuring cross-functional teams stay aligned, timelines are maintained and work moves forward with clarity and momentum. This role is an important part of the connective tissue that keeps our innovation pipeline running smoothly, from a product’s first brief through to launch, renovation and discontinuation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Coordinate project stakeholders, timelines and key milestones across a portfolio of concurrent initiatives, ensuring alignment across teams
- Track project progress against critical paths, proactively flagging risks, blockers and overdue tasks to relevant owners
- Maintain and update project tracking tools and dashboards, ensuring they reflect accurate, up-to-date status at all times
- Follow up with cross-functional partners on outstanding action items and inputs, keeping work moving between formal meetings
- Prepare for and facilitate recurring cross-functional meetings, including agenda development, note-taking and next step distribution
- Develop, test, and refine AI solutions (i.e. skills + projects on Claude) to scale the team’s work and leverage across the business
More about this role
Little Spoon was founded on the belief that today’s parents are different — equal parts more time-strapped and more food-savvy than ever before. We set out to disrupt a century-old category with products and an experience that deliver on what the modern parent deserves.
As an Associate Manager, Planning & Business Operations, you will provide tactical project management support across our product portfolio, ensuring cross-functional teams stay aligned, timelines are maintained and work moves forward with clarity and momentum. This role is an important part of the connective tissue that keeps our innovation pipeline running smoothly, from a product’s first brief through to launch, renovation and discontinuation. We’re looking for someone who has operated inside a CPG Project Management Office (PMO) or formal project management function, ideally within food and beverage, and who understands the pace and rhythm of physical product development.
What You’ll Do
Planning and Business Operations
- Coordinate project stakeholders, timelines and key milestones across a portfolio of concurrent initiatives, ensuring alignment across teams.
- Track project progress against critical paths,...
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