About the position
Location: Hackensack, NJ- Shuttle from NYC
Base Salary up to 130-145K
Hybrid
Innovation Manager – Creams Category
In collaboration with other innovation and foodservice/industrial sales leads the innovation manager is tasked with the development, management and delivery of creams innovation for the NA market of Flora FG. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong project management skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop and conduct consumer research to identify trends, insights, and innovation opportunities.
- Analyze data to identify key insights and create compelling value propositions / stories.
- Steer cross-functional teams across Research & Development, Insights, Finances, Commercialization and Legal/Regulatory.
- Lead the stage gate process (in partnership with R&D), ensuring all specifications and timelines are met.
- Drive strategic and executional alignment with Flora FGs leadership for deployment of innovation.
- Lead ongoing post-launch reporting and analysis to measure performance.
- Create compelling innovation presentations, spec sheets, and sizzles to support sales efforts.
- Challenge the thinking, pushing for entrepreneurial way in ('what if we were a start-up?')
- Champion a future-forward mindset, acting as an Innovation role model within the larger Innovation / Marketing teams and inspiring Flora FG with the latest information on new trends in Foodservice creams category and beyond.
- Report to the Head of the Creams Category
Key Skills and Behaviors
- Personifies our values of performance, care, and passion
- Day 1 mindset. Navigates complex situations and has a talent for thinking out of the box solutions.
- Willingness to travel up to 10-15% of the time (ex. travel to Kansas, sales meeting, trade shows)
- A strategic thinker with strong business acumen. Able to review data, identify key insights and articulate the business case opportunity
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Is on top of the latest trends, competitors launches and constantly thinking how to deliver better products for consumers and for the planet
- Has a strong creative eye with the ability to articulate briefs and provide feedback with impact
- Thrive on ‘making things happen’ and seeing ideas through to action!
- Energetic, fast learner with high learning agility, result driven, self-motivated, open-minded, easily to adapt with changes, collaborative
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field
- Minimum of 7 years within CPG or innovation agency/consultancy-type environment
- Experience in Food or Beverage a must; experience in Foodservice a plus
- Experience in consumer insights, built an insights plan, voice of the customer
- Self-starter with a demonstrated comfort with extreme uncertainty - background of identifying new breakthrough opportunities through insights and driving through to execution
- Balance between strategic thinking and executional know-how - can define a clear strategy based on insights & analytics, and bring it to life via hands-on execution
- Strong track record of successful product launched
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional team
- Excellent communicator with strong presentation & influencing skills
- Engaging leader who inspires others, always pushing the boundaries on thinking
What’s next
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