Overview:
- Innovation should not be part of someones job. It should be a fulltime resource & commitment to step change foresight planning, consumer centricity, speed & quality of innovations.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership:
- Proactive foresight & planning totake advantage of new innovation opportunities.
- Portfolio Strategy & Demand Space mapping
- Innovation framework Platform architecture, Consumer Taste profiles, key trend captures, competitor monitoring, 4F Innovation principles, Innovation Council alignment.
Innovation Output:
- Innovation Pipeline ownership lift & scale/ create product expo, workshops, global/ sector connects.
- Cross functional lead for Innovation projects across regional, sector & global teams
- Innovation beyond product packaging, channel, experience
Building Innovation Culture:
- Elevating quality & speed of NPD across the region
- Embedding agile innovation mindset & new ways of working across Asia BU & MU teams
Qualifications:
Critical Experiences:
- Bangkok, Thailand as our Regional HQ for Asia Bev is a preferred location for this role
- Strong strategic & inspiration leader with minimum 10 years experience in multi brand portfolio across multiple markets
- Strong experience in stakeholder management, influencing senior management and vision setting.
- Impeccable track record in end-to-end innovation with long term sustainable success
- Strategic Capability multi brand & market portfolio planning, actionable insights, data mining, trend capturing & deployment.
- Innovation expertise strong experience in leading large-scale end to end innovation projects.
- Design Thinking demonstrates ability to redesign processes, workflows to unlock speed to market, quality of output & white space innovation successes.
- Commercial Acumen different business models, size of prize, building business cases.
- Capability Building coaching, mentoring & development of innovation skillset & culture across the region.
Differentiating Competencies Required:
- Stakeholder Management strong influencer & leader across all levels of management & stakeholders
- Ability to Operate at different altitudes from long term strategic vision setting to detailed project milestones
- Proactive, self starter highly resourceful, sees opportunities & jumps on them
- Curious & Consumer Centric always has consumer lens & cross cultural intuition
- Agile & comfortable with navigating ambiguity track record of creating something from nothing