Assistant Brand Innovation Manager (FMCG)

Salary: £48,600 per year

Assistant Brand Innovation Manager (FMCG), Up to £48,600 per annum, 12 Month Contract, Lovely Blue Chip FMCG Company

Overview of Assistant Brand Innovation Manager: 

To assist in delivering sustainable growth of the company through building brilliant brand experiences and delivering portfolio and channel transformation. 

Key responsibilities include:

Embody the lean-like-a-startup innovation approach and mindset, to help deliver relevant and impactful innovation to market at speed.

Champion competitive and entrepreneurial behaviour and mindset throughout the business, and translate it into targeted innovation activities that grow company share in market

Support Innovation Lead in developing share-winning category strategy, tapping into category understanding, food trends across different segments and deep understanding of consumer changing eating habits

Take ownership, lead and project manage innovation/renovation/Net Revenue Realisation projects, working closely with the innovation engine to bring products to market OTIF including creating trade stories. (Therefore the ideal candidate will need excellent project management skills and strong relationship-forming with cross functional teams)

Implement 12-18 month portfolio roadmap including product and format innovation and channel specific portfolio

Manage innovation budget and adopt a startup mindset when planning consumer research and testing

Support building an Innovation Acceleration team that is future focused

Ideal Experience:

The ability to work confidently with multiple cross functional teams across geographies, with strong communication, presentation and stakeholders influencing abilities.

A successful candidate must have strong project management skills, high numeracy and data analysis for insight development. Strong project management skill is key for this specific role

A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their deep sense of creativity and logic, ambition, organisational and analytical skills, a head for figures and great instincts, along with a desire to get stuck in and actually make things happen through their can-do attitude.

Resilience, team orientation, ability to navigate through ambiguous and complex situations and taking initiatives are key

The right candidate will be strong at building relationships, both in person and remotely, and demonstrate strength at motivating and influencing others to deliver their projects to a high standard and at pace.