Innovation Delivery Director, Americas

Campari Group•New York, NY

About The Position

The Innovation Delivery Director, Americas owns the in-market delivery of innovation & Renovation projects, jointly working with House of brands partners and leveraging on project-based Supply Chain resources. Mission/Objectives Deliver new product development projects, ensure competitive and reliable time-to-market. Manage a global team of project managers and foster new innovation delivery continuous improvement. Be the go-to person for projects delivery status, decisions and escalation; provide credible feedback and quickly act to address delivery needs. Stimulate a healthy new product development project portfolio composition and optimize delivery resources allocation. Prepare Springboard agenda and content together with marketing partner, lead program discussion along the meeting.

Requirements

6/8 years experience in NPD area (Pack R&D, or beverage industry is a plus)
Leadership presence, ability to quickly build trust
Planning/scenario planning
Prioritization
Clear oral and written communication
Agile mindset
Project Management, integrated team management
Commercial & Financial Acumen
Conflict resolution and ability to manage senior stakeholders with potential conflictual interests
Fundamentals of Process R&D and Manufacturing.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration (marketing/production/management engineering)
Fluency in English
MS Office tools user (Excel, Project and PowerPoint)

Nice To Haves

SAP experience (is a plus)
Project Management certifications (is a plus)

Responsibilities

Own product delivery integrated plans throughout all the stages, from concept approval to post-launch.
Guide delivery project managers in setting up project team and integrated plans. I.e. define required resources; outline project timeline, scenarios and milestone; identify risk and related mitigation plan.
Be trusted partner for HoB senior team, proving meaningful communication on project updates. Steer decisions when needed to meet project targets.
Ensure consistent and high-quality data and information on projects managed into tracking tools.
Guarantee product launch tasks completion (e.g. all SKUs in scope have been created and forecasted by markets, first productions are successfully completed…).
Performs project closing meeting with project team to capture lessons learned.
Jointly lead, with marketing partner, preparation of SC data to support post launch evaluation.
Optimize Innovation Delivery Project Managers allocation among the project portfolio, maximising delivery impact on NS, GM.
Identify potential opportunities, issues or bottlenecks in the portfolio (e.g. resources overload) and identify actions to capture, solve or escalate them.
New project approval: asses and (challenge if needed) scope and value delivered with marketing partner, assess supply chain feasibility, impacts and risks.
Ensure overall portfolio delivery in line with key metrics managed (Resource optimization, NPD budget/cost management, NPD time to market, NPD timing reliability).
Actively attend NPD Springboard, addressing all key discussion open along the meeting
Ensure the timely and exhaustive preparation of pre-reads, identify risks/issues and alert in advance stakeholders before Springboard
Address all actions agreed along springboard discussions.
Develop PM teams via feedback, coaching and defining proper training programs to improve team performance
Educate and engage functions (SC, Marketing, Commercial and Support Functions) on innovation and renovation processes and governance
Cooperate with regional teams in providing, where needed, updates on innovation and renovation pipeline
Steer and deploy continuous improvement plans with transformation teams.