Project and Partnerships Manager

Join The Cookware Company – Where Innovation Meets Flavor At The Cookware Company, we’re not just making cookware—we’re changing the way the world cooks As a fast-growing, global powerhouse in housewares and consumer goods, we proudly introduced the first-ever PTFE-free nonstick cookware in 2007. Since then, we’ve been serving up award-winning brands like GreenPan, GreenLife, and Blue Diamond in over 100 countries (and counting).We thrive on innovation, creativity, and a passion for making cooking easier, healthier, and more fun. With headquarters in Belgium, key offices in New York, and teams spanning the Netherlands, Germany, Hong Kong, and Jiangmen, we offer an international, dynamic work environment where ideas sizzle and careers grow.Ready to cook up something amazing with us? Let’s make kitchen magic togetherThe Cookware Company (USA), LLC is seeking a strategic, highly organized and hands-on Project Management & Partnerships Manager to enhance go-to-market execution and cross-functional delivery within our growing Kitchen Electrics business.This is a hybrid position reporting into our Tarrytown, NY office.This person will be the central orchestrator of our licensed SDA product roadmap, owning timelines, milestone tracking, partner deliverables and launch readiness. You will serve as the day-to-day lead with our external licensee partner and the internal connector across Product, Marketing, Sales, Creative, Quality, Supply Chain, and Legal.This position spans product development alignment, creative approvals, digital and retail readiness, and partner management; playing a key role in ongoing category growth. As the PM & Partnerships Manager, your primary responsibility is facilitating transparent communication and workflows between teams to deliver launches on time, on spec and on brand.Essential Functions & Duties:Project Leadership & Launch Management• Own and drive the end-to-end launch of new kitchen electrics —from planning to execution, including critical milestones, dependencies and deliverables.• Act as the day-to-day lead for our licensee partner relationship, managing activations, marketing alignment, and brand approvals.• Proactively identify timeline risks and dependencies, drive mitigation plans, and escalate with recommended solutions to protect launch timing.• Enhance and build new processes to help drive transparency and accountability between product development, marketing, and sales.• Manage a detailed launch calendar, ensuring timely delivery of creative, content, and retail assets.• Lead cross-functional teams to ensure all elements of the launch are integrated, aligned, and delivered on time.Creative & Marketing Development • Guide the development of all brand materials, including photography, packaging, video, and digital content.• Partner with internal and external creative teams to maintain a cohesive and distinctive brand identity.• Ensure best-in-class presence across all digital retail platforms.• Oversee optimization of PDPs, A+ content, imagery, and brand store layouts to drive conversion and visibility.• Stay current on competitor activity and evolving trends to inform updates.Category Growth & Innovation • Serve as an internal champion for the category, helping to shape its evolution and growth.• Foster and grow the relationship with our licensee to unlock new marketing and promotional opportunities.• Continuously monitor the competitive landscape and trends to help influence the innovation pipeline.• Leverage data to assess opportunities and inform growth strategies across channels.Who You Are: • A proactive, cross-functional program leader with a builder’s mindset; you thrive in ambiguity and bring order, clarity and momentum.• Detail-obsessed and timeline-driven – you are naturally drawn towards milestones and next steps in conversations, always seeking solutions instead of seeing the roadblocks.• Equally creative and analytical – comfortable using data to guide decisions and an input for creative development while always protecting brand standards.• Curious and forward-thinking—you stay up to date on category trends and PM tools that improve ways of working.• This role is not primarily campaign marketing. Success is defined by program ownership, partner execution, and delivering SDA product launches on time and on brand.Qualifications: • 5–8 years of PM experience, ideally in consumer products or CPG.• Proven track record of leading a cross-functional brand or product line across digital and retail environments.• Experience working with licensed brands or partners strongly preferred.• Deep familiarity with project planning and tracking tools• Solid understanding of small appliance or hard goods product development milestones.• Experience leading packaging, photography, and marketing content development.• Strong communication skills and collaborative spirit.Work Environment:Hybrid role - combination of Tarrytown, NY office & remote