Here at Crisp, we believe the key to our success lies in the power of teamwork. By bringing together bright, driven individuals from around the world, we harness a rich diversity of experiences and perspectives to tackle one of the most critical challenges of our time: securing and improving our global food supply. Together, we collaborate, innovate, and build solutions that make a real difference.

This is a dynamic, evolving position reporting directly to the Director of PMO, offering plenty of opportunity for growth as you leverage your strengths. Whether your background is in startups or large enterprises, you understand the meaningful impact possible within a smaller, agile organization — and you’re eager to help define your role and contribute to Crisp’s future.

Job Summary:

The Category Management Project Manager is responsible for leading strategic initiatives within specific product or service categories to drive business growth, optimize processes, and enhance profitability. This role is accountable for Customer Success across all applicable portfolios of business.  This role blends category management expertise with project management skills to deliver cross-functional initiatives that align with organizational goals.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Project Manager to lead and coordinate technology projects from initiation through delivery. The ideal candidate will have experience managing cross-functional teams, implementing IT solutions, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Management:
• • Lead and manage category-related projects from initiation through execution, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives.
  • Coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments including Product development, Consulting, Operations, Sales, and Marketing.
• Software Delivery Management:
• • Agile Delivery Oversight – facilitate daily stand ups, identifies roadblocks and pushes for accountability, encourages commitment-based planning, and keeps team focused on key deadlines
  • Leads product release readiness meetings – identify potential resource constraints and proactively manages feature prioritization
  • Runs structured post mortems for each release cycle
• Stakeholder Engagement:
• • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and align project strategies accordingly.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and internal team members.
• Performance Monitoring:
• • Track and report on project performance metrics such as project burn rate, task completion status, project issues and action items
  • Adjust strategies based on performance data and market dynamics.
• Process Improvement:
• • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in project management.
  • Ensure compliance with project contract services and deliverables and project management best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in category management or project management in the information technology sector
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis and forecasting tools.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, DevOps, Jira) and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC), Agile, and Waterfall methodologies.

·        Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

Preferred Skills:

• Certification in project management (PMP, PRINCE2) or supply chain (CSCP, CPSM) is a plus.
• Experience with cloud technologies or enterprise software implementations.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Signs of a great candidate for Crisp:

• Collaborative. You know that your colleagues’ perspectives will make our customers successful. Similarly, you use your strengths to help us grow together. You propose ways for us to be more engaged and successful with our customers.
• Customer focused. Our customers are at the forefront of your day.  You prioritize our customers’ voice to ensure their needs are met. 
• Ambitious, curious, and resourceful. You are innately curious, and you aren’t afraid to work hard. You are self driven, you take direction well but are able to be creative to find results on your own when asked. You are driven to succeed because your hard work and results make you proud.
• Disciplined and reliable. We are a distributed company and you enjoy the benefits of working distributed while consistently delivering what you have committed to. When you hit a snag, you communicate and reset expectations early.
• Appreciative of honest feedback. You know that the best way to learn and grow is through constructive feedback delivered kindly. You view feedback given to you as an opportunity to get better and strive to do the same for others.
• Work smarter and harder. You often identify a problem, create a solution and bring it to a state of completion - with others, or even on your own.  You find ways of eliminating or automating stuff that is uninteresting or wasteful.

We are committed to transparency, diversity, and meritocracy, fostering an environment where every team member is empowered to make an impact, grow personally, and advance in their career. We invite you to join us — not just to take on a role, but to help shape a company you’re proud to be part of.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Crisp is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.