Responsibilities

• Translates enterprise strategy into omni-channel innovation platforms by partnering with Marketing and Sales leaders across I&FS, Global, and Retail to develop multi-year platform roadmaps that deliver against revenue and profit targets.
• Drives platform development from insight to proof of concept, leading ideations and creative exploration, as well as writing concepts and creating images for research.
• Partners with R&D and cross-functional experts to define learning objectives, success criteria, and decision inputs for early concepts.
• Responsible for early-stage incubation and decision-making rigor, leading cross-functional incubation teams to create and rapidly vet opportunities, assess risk and feasibility, and provide clear recommendations on how and where ideas should advance with stage-gate rigor.
• Identifies and prioritizes whitespace opportunities by synthesizing portfolio needs, market trends, customer dynamics, and consumer segmentation to shape scalable, high-impact innovation platforms.
• Builds sound business cases for innovation platforms and concepts, modeling revenue, margin, and long-term strategic value to inform prioritization, investment decisions, and go/hold/kill recommendations.
• Acts as a cross-functional integrator and communicator, translating insights and strategy into clear, compelling narratives that align cross-functional partners and drive confident decisions and coordinated execution.
• Transforms the voice of the customer and consumer into action, working closely with Sales and Marketing to build a deep understanding of customer situations, challenges, and motivations that inform platform strategy and concept development.
• Works closely with cross-functional partners, seeks to improve innovation discipline through tools, methods, and processes, seeking best-in-class approaches to elevate how Sartori identifies, evaluates, and develops new opportunities.
• Leverages knowledge of Sartori’s end-to-end capabilities, from milk through cheesemaking and converting, as well as technical sales and supplier networks, to develop differentiated and scalable solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or a related field required; MBA preferred
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in marketing or brand management with increasing scope and impact is required
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in marketing innovation and new product commercialization is preferred
• Experience with syndicated data & research insights, R&D, packaging, and operations is strongly preferred
• Travel requirements: Frequent travel is required to meet the needs of the business (estimated 10%). A valid driver's license is required

Preferred

• MBA preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in marketing innovation and new product commercialization is preferred
• Experience with syndicated data & research insights, R&D, packaging, and operations is strongly preferred