• Application Deadline: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Innovation Manager - Sparkling Flavors


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
  

Job Description Summary

What You’ll Do For Us:

• Role leads innovation development (e.g. product, package, equipment) within his/her respective category (primarily consisting of globally led brands) to ensure a robust 1 to 3-year innovation pipeline.


• Works collaboratively with global category team to bring global innovation to life within the Attractive-Local-Operating-Unit(AOU) as well as share relevant AOU market information in support of global innovation development.


• Develops holistic business cases and development of product, package or equipment-based innovations working in collaboration with various technical, commercial and brand functions.


• Lead, in collaboration with technical functions, discovery of new technologies, new partners and new applications of existing technologies to package-based solutions.  


• Monitor external and/or internal insights and consumer studies (global and/or Africa) by reviewing related publications, reports and research in order to raise system awareness of important trends and their potential implications.

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required, MBA preferred.


• 5 years in brand/category management, brand innovation, portfolio management, or innovation/technical disciplines. 


• Ability to take an end-to-end, consumer-driven approach to innovation utilizing multiple sources of information and translating those inputs into specific innovation(s) that meet marketplace needs while delivering brand/business objectives.

What We Can Do for You

You will be part of the Africa Marketing team where teams are the new heroes and our leaders that are inclusive orchestrators. Together, in pursuit of our Company Vision to craft LOVED BRANDS, done SUSTAINABLY, FOR A BETTER SHARED FUTURE, we will:

• Make our CULTURE Code inevitable


• Build winning CAPABILITIES


• Change the DNA of our organization to becoming ADAPTABLE.