North American Distillers · 1 week ago
Manager, Global Innovation: North American Whiskey
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$107K/yr - $134K/yr
5+ years expNorth American Distillers (NADL) is a manufacturer of award-winning American Whiskeys and part of Pernod Ricard, a global premium spirits and wine company. The Manager, Global Innovation for North American Whiskey will lead the development of a robust innovation pipeline and collaborate across teams to drive growth and consumer-centric innovation initiatives.
Wine & Spirits
Responsibilities
Bring to life the North American whiskey team’s vision with both a local focus on the needs of lead markets and global partnership to co-create innovation with Brand Units
Develop a robust three-year pipeline working across a matrixed organization to influence and drive growth
Lead pipeline development for North American whiskey brands (Skrewball, Jefferson’s, TX Whiskey, Rabbit Hole, and Smooth Ambler): End to End Project management to gain alignment on innovation platforms, pipeline, agenda for the region, sign-off on innovation initiatives
Apply Consumer Centricity, as a best practice and key ingredient in the Pernod Ricard brand building model, across the business by putting consumers, shopper and customer at the heart of all decision making
Create and Manage an Innovation Roadmap & KPIs according to the business needs/strategy of the market and in line with the local and global brand priorities
Foster collaboration and drive for action, working with local brand teams and Global Brand Units as well as key cross functional partners
Proactively contribute to the global Pernod Ricard Innovation community to build and share learnings across the organization
Work with a diverse team of Innovation Experts: Handling insights, ideation, development, through to go to market strategies. This will require strong management and leadership
Be a leader on the consumer-centric Innovation team delivering incremental sustainable growth across the portfolio
Help execute the new ways of working with Global Brand Units and local markets
Ensure that methodologies / approaches / framework developed are value add and facilitate local and global market needs
This team member is building innovation for one of the biggest Pernod Ricard brands, thus consumer/market evidence will be needed to bring along partners
Leverage analytics, insights and testing throughout the stage-gate process, establish clear criteria to advise go to market go/no go decision
Incorporate a holistic approach to include the consumer, sales, Retailer and Distributor feedback to identify and enhance innovation efforts
Drive consumer centricity from ideation to execution
End to End Project management to gain alignment on innovation platforms, pipeline, agenda for the regions, sign-off on innovation initiatives
Lead brand strategy, ideation process, design brief, and consumer insights to identify white space opportunities for innovation
Work to move projects through the system: deliver on P&L responsibilities while balancing critical aspects of the innovation that aren’t negotiable; Partner with Sales and Commercial to maximize chances of commercial success
Partner with local marketing teams to support launch plans and drive successful execution
Lead the team to help identify and build innovation opportunities on a global scale
Build out strategic innovation platforms that cut across the portfolio and drive big ideas for the Brand(s) to deliver incremental, sustainable innovation
Create a mid/long-term roadmap grounded in consumer insights, that leverage demand, and create a true sustainable advantage versus competition
Mine the innovation pipeline for quick wins that are relevant to the market that fit opportunities for year one launch while also building out the long-term pipeline
Share the innovation roadmap with strategic partners in innovation forums to drive excitement, collaboration and buy-in
Establish KPIs to measure innovation development progress and post launch success
Challenge / inspire business opportunities and identify pain-points in the local markets to identify opportunities for global synergies
Support best practice share outs with cross-functional teams
Push and support excellence in delivery (Post-Evaluation Analysis, reporting etc…)
Qualification
Required
A minimum of 5+ years relevant experience, such as supporting innovation teams in the consumer products, food & beverage, or spirits industries in North America or globally within a large established organization; other relevant experience such as BelAlc Brand Management, within an innovation agency, within a design team, Project Management experience or technical spirits experience in R+D a plus
Demonstrated ability to develop strategic innovation platforms/framework
Ability to deliver strong incremental innovation pipeline opportunities
Creative and analytical talent to optimize ideas grounded in consumer/market insights
Drive collaboration to move projects forward in a complex, matrix organizational structure
Financial experience to work the P&L and manage costs while staying true to the 'must have' innovation deliverables
Proven ability to influence and drive action working with cross-functional teams (internal and external to Pernod Ricard)
Languages: English (must have excellent/fluent business proficiency in written and verbal communication); Spanish or French a plus
Strong project management skills – ability to drive overall project management, understand critical path and manage to deadlines in a complex environment
Technical skills: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MS Teams
Benefits
Great benefits and perks
Company
North American Distillers
North American distillers is the Pernod Ricard business dedicated entirely to American whisky.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase