Summary:
To identify, design, and deliver innovation strategies that unlock future growth for the business. The Senior Innovation Manager leverages consumer, shopper, and market insights to shape the innovation pipeline, working cross-functionally to translate unmet needs and category opportunities into breakthrough products, services, and business models that strengthen brand relevance and drive long-term competitiveness.
Knowledge, abilities and skills required:
1. Innovation Strategy & Pipeline
- Define and manage the long-term innovation strategy in line with brand, category, and business priorities.
- Build a robust pipeline of short-, mid-, and long-term innovation projects to fuel sustainable growth.
- Identify white spaces, future growth platforms, and disruption opportunities beyond current product lines.
2. Consumer-Centric Growth
- Translate consumer, shopper, and cultural insights into innovation opportunities.
- Ensure all innovation is rooted in real human needs and market trends.
- Anticipate future behaviors, lifestyles, and sustainability demands to future-proof the portfolio.
3. Portfolio & Category Development
- Shape innovation platforms that expand the brand’s reach into new segments, channels, or categories.
- Balance incremental innovation (line extensions, reformulations) with breakthrough, transformational ideas.
- Partner with category and commercial teams to ensure innovations contribute to long-term category leadership.
4. Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead collaboration with R&D;, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, and Marketing to bring innovations from concept to market.
- Own the stage-gate / innovation funnel process, ensuring rigor, speed, and scalability.
- Act as the connector between creativity (ideas) and execution (feasibility, profitability, and speed-to-market).
5. Commercial Impact
- Build business cases for innovations, aligning with P&L;, pricing, and channel strategies.
- Partner with Finance and Sales to size opportunities and ensure strong launch ROI.
- Drive post-launch evaluation and learning to continuously improve the innovation process.
6. External & Future Focus
- Monitor competitor and category innovation activity, technology trends, and startup ecosystems.
- Build partnerships with external agencies, startups, suppliers, and research partners to access new ideas and capabilities.
- Champion sustainability, digital, and future-forward consumer trends within the innovation agenda.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Strategic vision: ability to link long-term brand and business growth to innovation platforms.
- Consumer-centric mindset: passion for uncovering insights and translating them into opportunities.
- Creativity & curiosity: ability to challenge norms, think disruptively, and explore new business models.
- Commercial acumen: strong P&L;, financial, and business case development skills.
- Influence & leadership: skilled at leading cross-functional and global/local teams in a matrix organization.
- Agility & execution: able to balance big-picture thinking with hands-on project deliver
Education: Bachelor´s Degree
Experience: 7-10 years in similar role.
📌 MX Innovation Mgr [05/09/2025]...
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