Who are we?
Established in 2017, trü frü rapidly ascended the “permissible indulgence” space as a Utah-based company selling one-of-a-kind “better for you” Hyper-Chilled and Hyper-Dried real fruit immersed in premium chocolate to retail outlets nationwide. Winning Most Innovative New Product in 2019 and 2022 in the sweets and snacks categories and climbing the fruit-based snack industry chart at an astounding growth rate, trü frü joined the Mars family of brands in February 2023. We are on a mission to build a legacy with trüly remarkable people who can create something special for generations to come!
As a Project Manager at trü frü, you will play a key role in driving critical initiatives that support our continued growth. In this position, you will help lead projects tied to commercialization and innovation, including new product development, packaging enhancements, and overall portfolio optimization. You will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to coordinate efforts, facilitate project meetings, and ensure alignment across multiple stakeholders. This role offers the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to high-impact initiatives and help bring Trü Frü's strategic vision to life.
What you will do…
- Own and maintain end-to-end project plans, ensuring clear task ownership, dependencies, decision points, and escalation paths across all functions.
- Proactively identify, assess, and escalate risks and issues using defined PMO escalation paths to enable timely decision-making and minimize downstream impact.
- Drive cross-functional alignment by facilitating clear decision-making forums, ensuring stakeholders understand priorities, trade-offs, and impacts.
- Scope, plan, and manage multiple projects by setting goals, building plans, allocating resources and budgets, identifying risks, developing contingency and change-management plans, and defining KPIs.
- Execute with excellence by maintaining accurate timelines, clarifying responsibilities, anticipating and mitigating risks, tracking KPIs, monitoring progress, and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery while managing stakeholder communication.
- Lead and organize cross-functional teams to effectively resolve complex issues.
- Develop a deep understanding of trü frü's innovation, operations, and commercial activities to guide strategic thinking, not just timeline management.
- Understand the full business case—including consumer insights, financials, marketing needs, and operational and supply-chain impacts—to act as a strong thought partner.
- Apply and share project management best practices that enable team success.
- Follow the trü frü stage-gate model and help refine the commercialization process to improve value, speed, and quality in a cost-effective way.
You are…
- An experienced program and project manager with a proven track record of results.
- Effective at influencing without authority across diverse functional teams.
- Experienced in managing change and ambiguity across cross-functional teams.
- A strong collaborator who drives change, influences effectively, and builds alignment across teams.
- Highly organized and capable of managing complex projects and multiple priorities.
- A clear and compelling communicator, both written and verbal.
- A strong problem solver with a bias for action in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.
- Comfortable leading cross-functional teams in resource-constrained, multi-stakeholder settings.
- Flexible, forward-thinking, and solutions-oriented, with an owner’s mindset.
- Committed to excellence, quality, professionalism, and ethical conduct.
- Driven, curious, level-headed, and quick to learn.
- Passionate about trü frü and healthy snacking.
You have…
- At least 5 years of experience in program and project management.
- Experience in CPG, with food industry experience preferred.
- A Bachelor’s degree, with a Master’s or MBA a plus.
- Project Management certification, a plus.
- Strong understanding of how CPG companies and large retailers operate.
- Experience with Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
- A proven track record of executing programs and projects using a stage-gate process.
- Experience with Project Management tools such as Monday.com (preferred experience), Smart Sheets, MS Project, etc.
Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ.
What trü frü offers –
- Competitive salary, including a target bonus and an impressive benefits package!
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Excellent health, dental & vision insurance, with options to fit you and your family’s needs.
- Long-term disability and short-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401K retirement saving opportunity.
- Casual office dress code
- A dynamic, ambitious, indulgently fun work environment!
EEO
At trü frü, we are committed to an inclusive workplace where diversity in all its forms is championed. trü frü is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and we are an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require special accommodation, please let us know.
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What We Do
Tru Fru starts with 100% fruit ripened on the vine to enhance taste and nutrition, double immerses it in chocolate, coconut or peanut butter. And Hyper-Chills or Hyper-Dries it to perfection in our proprietary process to lock in nature’s vine ripened, freshly double immersed better-for-you fruit to create an award winning indulgence by Mother Nature. We are changing the way America snacks one satisfied craving at a time.
