Innovation Lead
3 weeks ago
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Innovation Lead to join our Breakfast and New Categories team at Premier Foods. As a key member of our innovation team, you will be responsible for building a pipeline of innovative products and delivering them successfully to market.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a comprehensive innovation strategy for the Breakfast and New Categories team.
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver innovative products and solutions that meet consumer needs and drive business growth.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including R&D, Factory, Sales, and Finance, to ensure seamless execution of innovation projects.
- Take ownership of the P&L for innovation projects, ensuring they are scalable and profitable for the business.
- Stay up-to-date with the external landscape and available technologies, applying this knowledge to our innovation pipeline.
Requirements
- 6-8+ years of experience in FMCG or brand-led organisations, with some exposure to food and drink innovation.
- Experience of smaller, more entrepreneurial business environments alongside larger multi-national organisations is a plus.
- Innovation experience encompassing strategy, business case development, cross-functional leadership, and in-market delivery.
- A track record of delivering successful big-bet innovation to market with proven scale.
- Strong bias for action, high degree of personal accountability, and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Desire to identify new ideas and ways of working, encouraging teams to think outside the box to make things happen.
- Strong commercial orientation, comfortable analysing market data, digging under the surface to uncover insights, making compelling business recommendations, and ensuring we can bring our biggest ideas to market in a profitable way.
- A strong collaborator and leader of others within a cross-functional team, inspiring them to go the extra mile.
- Personal Impact and Influence, proven ability to communicate clearly and concisely to win support from senior stakeholders.
- Effective at prioritising, putting first things first to deliver a complex innovation programme across multiple categories.
About Premier Foods
Premier Foods is one of Britain's biggest listed food companies, employing over 4,000 colleagues at 15 manufacturing sites and offices up and down the country. Many of our brands have been part of UK life for more than a century and you'll find them in 94% of British households.
We believe in inclusion, authenticity, and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and future colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued, and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work, no matter who they are, what they look like, who they love, or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.
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