Innovations Manager - Premium Core
About the Function:
We're innovators, collaborating with people around the globe to disrupt and push boundaries, redefining the future of our extraordinary brands. Our Innovation team offers a wide range of roles, from helping to grow existing markets to developing exciting breakthrough ideas. Creating industry-shaping innovations and bringing a strategic viewpoint at every stage.
We celebrate and nurture creative potential to break new ground. Our teams around the world, work together to innovate, explore creative possibilities, and develop new strategies. Whatever the role, we'll challenge, inspire, and support you to become the best innovator you can be.
About the role:
Roles in marketing innovation use consumer insights and trends to create new ideas and concepts for Diageo's brands and products. They work closely with technical research and development to prove, test and refine concepts through to commercialisation.
Role Responsibilities Include:
Leading product Innovation: lead the development of concepts, design & communications for new brand launches & brand extensions on existing brands basis consumer insights. Complete this through the GATE (approval) process, rallying the organization behind your vision. Work in partnership with the Supply Brand Change Managers and Commercialization Managers to develop and commercialize the product innovation.
Building purposeful winning Brands that are built in culture to win the hearts & minds of consumers. Inject your creative flair and strong judgement to evaluate brand communication and associated content; develop innovative & integrated launch campaigns.
Using insights to sell more: leverage consumer and customer understanding to generate insights on consumer behaviour that successfully deliver innovations uptake and great commercial execution. Work closely with media and digital to ensure that launch strategies are advised by trends and big shifts that reflect consumer behaviour.
Delivering integrated execution: write briefs that inspire internal and external partners to create breakthrough and radical ideas and that enable new launches to be established in culture, drive rapid awareness, trial and achieve fame on time and within budget.
Forging powerful partnerships: develop productive and mutually exciting relationships with agencies, GBT, cross functional teams to enable the business to achieve set goals
Being entrepreneurial: constantly seek new insights and make connections to identify and turn opportunities into reality.
Project management: work on multiple projects/launches concurrently; this requires a high level of structure, difficulty, and self-discipline to ensure that launches take place on time
Requirements
Qualifications
- Appropriate suitable tertiary qualification - degree / diploma
- Post Graduate Qualification is desirable
Experience
- A minimum of 4-5 years' experience in Brand Marketing in the FMCG industry (product innovation experience advantageous)
Diversity statement:
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Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- Pet Insurance
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Adoption Leave
Work Flexibility
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- Pension
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Woman founded/led
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