Job description
Key Responsibilities:
Tropicana Brands Group is looking for a highly qualified Innovation & Sustainability Director to support the Tropicana Brand Group's goals and initiatives in outpacing the beverage marketplace in topline and bottom-line growth.
Responsibility for the successful development, implementation, and commercialization of innovation for their respective brands/platforms. This will include primary commercialization for developing new product solutions and the long-term growth strategy for the product platforms.
The Innovation & Sustainability Director is responsible for commercializing new products in the market, leveraging the Tropicana Brands Group Operating Model from the Idea phase to Launch and Learn. The Director leads cross-functional teams by providing operational solutions that can be commercialized on a full-scale line while meeting cost and margin objectives.
- Creative 5-year innovation pipeline supporting the AOP agenda and overall financial algorithm
- Drive insights through data mining leading to concept development and successful sell-in
- Strong project management, financial analysis, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Work jointly with R&D, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, and our producing locations to source, justify, scope, scale up and commercialize new products.
- Cost of sales development, make vs. buy analysis, P&L analysis, and cost modeling.
- Provide project leadership from development through commercialization, launch, and launch support - sale ramp curves, customer activation, and tracking metrics
- Develop relationships and communicate effectively with cross-functional business partners/leadership.
Requirements
Professional Experience / Qualifications:
- Undergraduate Degree, MBA preferred but not required
- Proven track record of innovation pipeline development with strong in-market success
- Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing, organizational, and analytical skills to gain alignment across multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to drive strong storytelling through both in-person as well as written for leadership sell-in and updates
- Exceptional project management/execution skills to meet aggressive deliverables.
- Strong analytical and financial management skills (P&Ls, margin analysis, Comms)
- Working directly with sales on customer collaboration of pipeline development, as well as sell-in to direct buyers and buying network
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