Product Implementation Manager

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Product Development Department in Data & Tech is at the forefront of driving transformative growth and impact in the fields of sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, and ecosystem conservation. With a strategic focus on innovation, collaboration, and a customer- centric approach, this dynamic department plays a crucial role in crafting and delivering ground breaking products. From end-to-end product lifecycle management to scalable design thinking, the team spearheads initiatives that align with overarching business goals. Through interdisciplinary stakeholder consultation, continuous improvement, and strategic partnerships, the Product Development Department stands as a catalyst for achieving the organization's mission.

This role is positioned within the Product Development department, is responsible for supervising the implementation team, ensuring seamless implementation of products, technical changes and strategic initiatives across the organization. With a focus on innovation, collaboration, and a customer-centric approach, the Product Implementation Manager ensures that all implementation activities align with the overarching business goals and mission of the organization and that all internal stakeholders have what they need to integrate the changes in their day-to-day work.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leadership & Management:
  • Lead the Implementation team, including Senior Implementation Officers and Implementation Officers.
  • Foster a collaborative and high-performance team environment.
  • Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities for team members.
• Strategic Planning & Execution:
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive rollout plans for product implementations.
  • Ensure that all deliverables, including communications, documentation, training, and translations, are included in the implementation plans.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, Sector Leads, and other key internal stakeholders to integrate implementation into project plans and budgets.
  • Define implementation timelines, objectives, and responsibilities.
• Monitoring & Progress Management:
  • Supervise and monitor the progress of product rollouts.
  • Ensure organizational readiness by planning and coordinating internal and external training sessions in partnership with training teams.
  • Coordinate communication materials and engagement plans, including emails, documents, and website content, in all relevant languages in partnership with Marketing and Communications teams.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Evaluate and find opportunities to improve implementation processes, procedures, and tools.
  • Implement best practices and drive continuous improvement initiatives within the implementation team.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Engage with interdisciplinary stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful integration of product changes.
  • Maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners to support implementation activities.
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Technology or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years’ relevant work experience within product implementation, project management related work field.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interact culturally, linguistically, and diplomatically with diverse internal and external individuals.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience in sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, or ecosystem conservation is a plus.
• Ability to travel occasionally, nationally and internationally.

Job Level: 3

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Deadline: 20 September 2024

Notes: Only candidates authorized to work in the Netherlands, the UK or Kenya will be considered.

If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department: recruitment@ra.org

Who we are:
The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.

Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.

As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.

At the Rainforest Alliance we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.

Why
To protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.

How
Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.

The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability and any other protected group.