Sr. Manager, Innovation Commercialization - FBS/RTD -Chicago or NY
About The Position
At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day. What makes this a great opportunity?As the Senior Manager, Innovation Commercialization, you will own the end-to-end commercialization operating model for innovation and ensure new products launch with clear tiering, validates size-of-prize and executable channel launch plan that deliver on-time, in-full, and on-performance. This role may be based out of the New York City or Chicago office.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field
- 3-5yr innovation commercialization + 3-5yr brand, commercial strategy, category management, sales strategy, or trade marketing (CPG /Spirits preferred)
- Strong cross-functional leadership and influence without authority; comfortable driving governance forums.
- Strong analytical skills (opportunity sizing, scenario modeling, performance diagnosis)
- Excellent communication and influencing skills; able to produce concise decision materials and sales ready narratives
- Excellent project management; able to develop and drive processes
Responsibilities
- Commercialization framework & governance for full bottle spirits and (RTD) ready-to-drink: Build and maintain the innovation commercialization playbook (templates, standards, required inputs)
- Define and manage innovation tiering and the required evidence, investment, and execution standards for each tier
- Partner with portfolio strategy team to develop and own the methodology and assumptions to quantify opportunity by channel (distribution targets, velocity benchmarks, mix/margin, spend)
- Build executive overviews to enable leadership approval across full bottle spirits and ready-to-drink portfolio
- Lead and develop customer planning inputs and readiness reviews for priority launches to support sales leadership
- Define and coordinate Post launch performance & learnings
- Define innovation process success metrics and dashboard
- Capture learning and update tiering standards, assumptions and playbooks to improve future launches
Benefits
- annual bonus
- 401K match
- profit sharing
- medical and wellness benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
