Senior Innovation Manager - Global Travel Malts
Diageo
Senior Innovation Manager - Global Travel Malts
Salary Not Specified
Diageo, City of Westminster
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 30 Aug | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 26ecdf70290249898c630660b8a581f1
Full Job Description
- Develop and own the comprehensive innovation strategy for the Malts portfolio, ensuring alignment with the overall business objectives and consumer trends.
- Lead the end-to-end commercialization and delivery of the Malts innovation pipeline, leveraging deep consumer, customer and market insights to drive value creation.
- Achieve excellence in new product launches, partnering cross-functionally to execute best-in-class plans that deliver superior brand performance and customer/consumer impact.
- Manage the performance of the Malts innovation portfolio post-launch, making timely interventions to maximize business impact and deliver against Annual Operating Plans.
- Expertly navigate the P&L to optimize value creation for the business, customers and consumers at the right price points.
- Develop winning commercial and marketing strategies that outpace the competition and drive category growth.
- Inspire and engage cross-functional teams to deliver breakthrough innovation and category expansion.
- Demonstrate creative problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguity and ensure goals are achieved.
- Build strong influencing capabilities to align and mobilize stakeholders at all levels.
Proven track record in successful innovation project management and commercialization. - Exceptional influencing and stakeholder management skills across diverse internal and external partners.
- Commercially astute with expertise in P&L management and value chain dynamics.
- Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, adeptly juggling multiple priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to foster effective relationships and collaborate remotely/in-person.
Diageo Global Travel brings Diageo's international portfolio of alcoholic and non-alcoholic brands to consumers in travel retail. Travel retail represents the unique shopping spaces and duty free options active in airports and dedicated duty free sites all over the world. Global Travel also serves the airline and cruiseship community for on board purchases and in bar experiences.
Functional Capabilities
Portfolio Performance Management
Organizational Leadership
The business brings exclusive brand extensions and limited editions to travellers as well as in-airport experiences including gifting boutiques and whisky studios.
Global Travel is a brand building marketplace, with a consumer in a different mindset, captive, shopping with a different lens to the ordinary.
A showcase opportunity enabling brands like Johnnie Walker to reach the No.1 whisky spot and our single malts to become the rare liquid gift or treat for shoppers in transit.
With our HQ in London we operate across 19 different countries and have over 29 different nationalities amongst our team.
Our innovation team plays a central role within our business by translating penetration consumer insights into winning product launches. They combine creative flair with strategic consumer insight, commerciality and strong project management skills to deliver innovations that impact consumers across the World., With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers - the brands we're building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you'll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you'll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you'll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we'll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.
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