Commercialization Manager

The Marzetti Company (Nasdaq: MZTI) manufactures and sells specialty food products. Our retail brands include Marzetti® dressings and dips, New York Bakery™ garlic breads, and Sister Schubert’s® dinner rolls, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden® dressings, Chick-fil-A® sauces and dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings® sauces, Arby’s® sauces, Subway® sauces, and Texas Roadhouse® steak sauces and frozen rolls. Our foodservice business supplies sauces, dressings, breads, and pasta to many of the top restaurant chains in the United States.

At Marzetti, our mission is to make every meal better through high-quality, flavorful food. Led by our purpose, to nourish growth with all that we do, our team members are dedicated to creating great tasting food and cultivating deep and lasting relationships.

The Commercialization Manager leads go-to-market efforts for new dough products, manufacturing lines, and equipment across both internal plants and contract manufacturing sites. This role serves as the critical link between product development, engineering design, and market execution, ensuring seamless commercialization and scalable success for all dough-related initiatives.

Operating in a corporate, cross-functional capacity, the Commercialization Manager partners closely with R&D, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Marketing teams to translate innovation into operational and market-ready outcomes.

This is a remote position with regular travel to our dough manufacturing sites—especially Horse Cave, KY—to support launches, process validation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic, results-driven leader with a strong track record of managing complex commercialization projects, aligning technical execution with business goals, and driving collaboration across diverse teams and locations.