Global Head of Innovation

2 months ago


Wimbledon, United Kingdom Alexander Lloyd Full time

Global Head of Innovation

Location - South London with VERY flexible working options

£65,000/£75,000 + bens

Alexander Lloyd are proud to be exclusively partnering a progressive and forward thinking International Retail/FMCG Organisation with the key hire of a Global Head of Innovation

Reporting into the Director of Brand & Product - The Global Head of Innovation will create and lead the organisations Innovation Pipeline, driving consumer focused, creativity & innovation and ensuring they deliver on the objective of being a leader in naturalwellness.

Key responsibilities
- Develop the Innovation strategy mapping out the next 5 years to ensure they have a continuous, strategically appropriate level of newness that drives the business globally.
- Work with the Brand team to generate ideas and build Innovation into the Global Brand Strategy.
- Lead a cross functional R&D team to take the Innovation through to concept stage including commercially sizing each opportunity working with the Product team.
- Develop critical paths & initial business cases for each project in conjunction with the Product team to map the Innovation into our NPD calendar & budgets.
- Lead and embed a new Innovation Process, adapting, shaping and driving continuous improvement.
- To deliver a monthly report on the global consumer landscape including consumer trends, new product launches & relevant changes in market dynamics
- To gather and/or commission market & consumer research to inform us on the trends, insights & data to shape our plans or validate our decisions.
- Responsible for developing ideas through to concept approval establishing the potential supplier for each initiative.
- Help to build and shape our ESG strategy, ensuring all Innovation not only considers the strategy but also pushes the agenda.
- 10+ years of experience in creative product development, in relevant consumer goods such as Natural Healthcare/Beauty/OTC.
- Proven track record of success developing new products in a global business.
- Strong technical knowledge of natural healthcare (or similar) products, ingredients, packaging etc.
- A deep consumer understanding and passion for continuously growing this knowledge.
- Experience of commissioning/collating market & consumer, trends, insight & data and consolidating these into insightful, focused reports.
- Experience of working with 3rd parties i.e. agencies, suppliers, clinicals, licensing, development projects.
- Experience of working in a regulated industry.

This is only one of many vacancies we are handling. Alexander Lloyd is the leading recruiter across a range of roles within the FMCG sector.



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