Director of Product Strategy, COE
About The Position
A high-impact strategic leadership role serving as the right hand to the Chief Innovation & Sustainability Officer (CISO). This position drives the execution engine behind innovation, product strategy, sustainability, and growth — ensuring ideas translate into measurable business results. The Director operates as a Product Strategy Center of Excellence leader, integrating white space analysis, cost optimization, innovation governance, and performance management across the portfolio. This is a builder role for a disciplined operator who can bring structure, clarity, and speed to complex cross-functional initiatives.
Requirements
- Expertise in product strategy, innovation, or portfolio management
- Ability to connect market insights to business action
- Proven program management and governance capability
- Strong financial acumen and analytical horsepower
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
- Ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment
- Trusted partner across Product, Finance, Operations, Sales, and Sustainability
- High emotional intelligence and collaborative leadership style
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field
- 7+ years in product strategy, innovation, consulting, or related leadership roles
- Strong attention to detail
- Highly skilled in Smartsheets, powerpoint, creation of dashboards, charts, executive level presentations
Nice To Haves
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
- Experience in manufacturing, materials, or foodservice packaging preferred
Responsibilities
- Translate corporate innovation and sustainability strategy into actionable plans
- Lead enterprise product strategy frameworks and portfolio direction
- Identify white space opportunities and growth platforms
- Own innovation and product KPI dashboards and reporting
- Track performance against AOP, cost optimization, and growth targets
- Deliver executive insights for decision-making
- Govern innovation pipeline and stage-gate processes
- Ensure business cases are financially sound and execution-ready
- Elevate quality of innovation reviews and decision forums
- Prepare high-impact presentations and board-level materials
- Coordinate cross-functional inputs into a single narrative
- Support capital allocation decisions and project prioritization
- Partner with Finance on ROI analysis and approvals
- Monitor execution of strategic investments
- Deliver insights on market trends, competitors, and customer needs
- Support product teams with data-driven strategy
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match
- comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- flexible spending and health savings accounts
- paid vacation, and sick days
- paid parental leave
- paid holidays
- wellness program
- Skills development to advanced education programs
- Training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning
- company and industry training curricula
- support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union)
- Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
