Responsibilities - Identify and commercialize innovation and renovation initiatives that are aligned to organizational strategic growth objectives. - Generate new business opportunities by uncovering unmet consumer needs in the marketplace, ensuring strategic fit, identifying market potential as well as the timeline required to launch. - Drive the process to determine priority innovation territories, and lead the ideation that follows. - Collaborate with internal Brand Marketing teams along with Sales, Strategic Initiatives, R&D, and Consumer Insights to generate and validate a pipeline of concepts for launch, both in the short and long terms. - Build compelling business cases for each innovation initiative that demonstrate project value and impact to the organization’s annual financial goals. - Act as the initiative owner as projects move through the Stage Gate process, ensuring key stakeholders are aligned to strategy, and commercialization milestones are delivered on time. - Lead cross-functional project teams and demonstrate ability to inspire delivery of results. - Present recommendations and strategic plans for organizational buy-in from both cross-functional peers along with senior leaders. - Collaborate with R&D, Engineering and Regulatory partners to develop disruptive innovation technologies that can be leveraged across the organizations’ platform of brands Requirements - MBA or equivalent degree Preferred - Minimum 7 years’ experience in Marketing in the Consumer-Packaged Goods / Beverage industries preferred - 5 years’ experience leading Innovation projects - Experience managing and developing people - Strong relationship management skills with the ability to lead cross functional teams - Consumer empathy and an understanding of how to interpret consumer research - Cross-functional Marketing experience is preferred (i.e. Brand) - Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Ability to effectively interface at all levels. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Strong strategic, analytical skills with P&L experience - Ability to take initiative, develop and seek out creative and innovative ideas. - Must have strong knowledge of Marketing fundamentals, analytical expertise, and be familiar with syndicated data sources and internal data sources Nice_to_have - Cross-functional Marketing experience is preferred (i.e. Brand) - MBA or equivalent degree Preferred - Experience managing and developing people Benefits - Health Benefits: Medical, prescription, dental, vision, flexible spending account (FSA), dependent care flexible spending account (FSA), health savings account (HSA) - Retirement/Investing: 401K with a 5% match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) - Insurance: Employee Life Insurance, short and long-term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, spouse/domestic partner/child life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment - Other Great Benefits: Employee discounts, save on auto, home, and pet insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation and sick time, 9 paid holidays and 3 paid floating holidays, paid leave for when you have a baby, adopt a child, or become a foster parent, legal services, identity theft protection, employee assistance program (EAP), adoption reimbursement benefit, FEDlogic, commuter benefits