Responsibilities

• Support the development of brand innovation strategy, in partnership with the Innovation Sr. Director to develop a multi-year innovation agenda that aligns with the brand growth strategy and financial targets.
• Support the identification, exploration, and strategy development of whitespace innovation opportunities
• Delivery & execution of the multi-year innovation agenda from concept to launch; collaborating closely with the cross functional team to ensure flawless execution.
• Development and validation of concepts
• Leadership through innovation stage gate process
• Leads and collaborates with cross functional team through feasibility, commercialization & launch of the innovation
• Works closely with sales, consumer insights & finance to develop new item forecasts and projections that align with our financial hurdles, and mitigate waste potential
• Develops sales facing selling stories and communications in support of innovation sell in
• Post launch tracking and integration of learnings into pipeline innovation development
• Independent analysis combined with partnership with consumer insights to develop deep understanding of the consumer, brand, and category dynamics to inform winning, relevant innovation across channels.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience involving Innovation is required.
• CPG experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree is required
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to thrive in and handle ambiguity & fast paced environment
• Analytic and creative thinking skills
• Strong commercial acumen and marketing capabilities
• Strong leadership / communication / collaboration skills
• Demonstrated track record of sales/marketing/commercialization execution
• Ability to lead a cross functional team

Benefits

• health insurance
• wellness and family support programs
• life and disability insurance
• retirement savings plans
• paid leave programs
• education related programs
• paid holidays and vacation time