Portfolio Innovation & Incubation Manager
About this role
Job Description:
Portfolio Strategy & Innovation Pipeline
• Build a balanced innovation portfolio across core, adjacent and transformational growth opportunities.
• Identify portfolio gaps, whitespace opportunities and future growth territories.
Innovation Incubation & Growth Platforms
• Lead incubation of new product, service and ecosystem opportunities through test-and-learn pilots.
• Build business cases, growth plans and scale-up recommendations for validated opportunities.
Cross-Functional Innovation Leadership
• Partner with CMI, Global R&D, Pillars, Commercial and VCO teams to turn opportunities into projects.
• Drive governance, portfolio reviews and alignment between local needs and global priorities.
Consumer-Led & Future Growth Innovation
• Translate pet owner, customer and market insights into propositions that are desirable, feasible and viable.
• Explore growth beyond products, including Pet Owner ecosystems, CRM-enabled platforms, services and partnerships.
Experience
• 5+ years in Innovation, Portfolio Strategy, E2E Marketing
• Experience in FMCG, Consumer Health, Pet Health Care, Mom-Baby industry preferred.
• Track record of developing, validating or launching innovation initiatives in complex organizations.
Capabilities
• Innovation and venture mindset
• Portfolio management and strategic thinking
• Business case development and growth strategy
• Consumer centricity and data-informed decision making
• Stakeholder influence, storytelling and learning agility
Company at a glance
We’re a unified force of 170,000+ Associates, taking action every day toward the world we want tomorrow.
Our Five Principles have kept us true to ourselves and to our commitment to treat others in ways that are consistent with those values. Having stood the test of time, these principles will continue, keeping us free to move quickly and plan for the future.
Quality - The consumer is our boss, quality is our work and value for money is our goal.
Responsibility - As individuals, we demand total responsibility from ourselves; as Associates, we support the responsibilities of others.
Mutuality - A mutual benefit is a shared benefit; a shared benefit will endure.
Efficiency - We use resources to the full, waste nothing and do only what we can do best.
Freedom - We need freedom to shape our future; we need profit to remain free.
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