Project Manager - Retail Displays (North America)

tonies is the globally leading interactive audio platform for children with more than 10 million Tonieboxes and 125 million Tonies sold. The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach. Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes around 1,400 Tonies in several languages. Since its inception, tonies has achieved significant milestones, including listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in November 2021 as well as a globally present team of over 550 dedicated professionals operating from various countries.

Joining our tonies team means being part of an inspiring mission to create innovative and meaningful experiences for children around the world. Together, we’re shaping the future of play, learning, and imagination.

tonies is seeking a highly organized and proactive Project Manager – Retail Displays to serve as the central “air traffic controller” across all display initiatives, including PDQs, endcaps, demo stations, pallets, and custom retail executions.

This role will own the end-to-end coordination, visibility, and execution of display projects across cross-functional teams including Sales, Trade Marketing, Creative, Supply Chain, Logistics and external vendors. The Project Manager will ensure projects are properly scoped, timelines are realistic and adhered to, and risks are proactively identified and mitigated.

This individual will play a critical role in transforming our current processes into a disciplined, scalable, and predictable system, enabling on-time delivery of retailer displays.

End-to-End Project Management

• Own and manage the display process, from carefully scoping projects and ensuring required inputs are captured at the onset of a project to when displays are set at retailers

• Validate feasibility using milestone calculators, inventory readiness, and timeline constraints

• Build and maintain accurate timelines and project management tracking with clear dependencies and ownership

• Drive project alignment and momentum by ensuring all tasks and milestones are assigned, tracked, and completed on time

• Act as the single source of truth for project status, risks, next steps, and leadership briefing

Cross-Functional Communication

• Serve as the central point of coordination across both internal teams and external vendors

• Ensure the right stakeholders are engaged at the right time to continue project momentum, minimize disruptions, and protect timelines

• Identity, assess, and appropriately escalate project risks and manage risk mitigation with the project team

• Lead regular display project review meetings to ensure transparency for all stakeholders

Timeline Management & Risk Mitigation

• Escalate and push back on infeasible timelines or incomplete inputs

• Develop and manage workback schedules from in-store dates using milestone calculators

• Continuously monitor timelines and proactively identify risks, delays, or bottlenecks

• Identity, assess, and appropriately escalate project risks and implement risk mitigation

Required

• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably in:

  • Physical product, merchandising, or production

  • Display production, packaging, or operations (strongly preferred) 

• Exceptional ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with high attention to detail and drive them to completion

• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional projects with tight deadlines

• Experience working with external vendors and managing production timeline

• Highly organized and collaborative, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and aligning cross-functional teams

• Experience with project management tools (e.g., Asana, Smartsheet, Monday.com)

Preferred:

• Strategic and process-driven with a continuous improvement mindset

• Experience building new processes, templates, or PM frameworks

• Practical knowledge: familiarity with packaging, printing, corrugate, or packaging design