Manager, Commercial Innovation Diageo Beer Company

Diageo•3WTC, NY

1d•$105,225 - $175,375•Onsite

About The Position

Diageo Beer Company is seeking a Manager, Commercial Innovation to lead end-to-end commercialization planning and execution for innovation and renovation initiatives. This role involves developing and managing integrated commercialization plans, coordinating timelines, and ensuring successful delivery from concept through launch. The position requires close collaboration with various departments including Brand, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Key Accounts, and Customer Marketing to ensure launch readiness and successful in-market execution. The successful candidate will also identify commercialization opportunities, optimize launch timing, and support customer-specific execution strategies. This role is crucial for ensuring forecast submissions, launch deliverables, and cross-functional commitments are met on schedule, while also monitoring performance, identifying risks, and evaluating post-launch results to improve future efforts. The company emphasizes flexibility, recognizing and valuing performance with a competitive Rewards and Benefits package, and fosters a diverse and inclusive environment where employees can belong, contribute, and strive for their personal best.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
Minimum 5 years of Commercial, Innovation, Brand Marketing, Sales Operations, or related experience within CPG or Beverage Alcohol
Ability to partner optimally across Brand, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, Operations, Key Accounts and other teams to drive successful commercialization execution.
Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, timelines, deliverables, and priorities while driving execution.
Experience supporting end-to-end commercialization, including innovation planning, launch execution, customer readiness, operational coordination, and post-launch performance tracking.
Ability to demonstrate insights, data, and business performance metrics to find opportunities and support decision-making.
Highly organized, collaborative, and self-motivated with strong communication skills and the ability to influence across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end commercialization planning and execution for innovation and renovation initiatives, ensuring successful delivery from concept through launch.
Develop and manage integrated commercialization plans, coordinating timelines, achievements, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies across multiple initiatives.
Partner with Brand, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Key Accounts, and Customer Marketing to ensure launch readiness and successful in-market execution.
Collaborate with Sales & Key Accounts teams to identify commercialization opportunities, optimize launch timing, and support customer-specific execution strategies.
Coordinate the development and delivery of commercialization deliverables, including selling materials, launch communications, customer assets, and execution tools.
Manage commercialization timelines and key achievements, ensuring forecast submissions, launch deliverables, and cross-functional commitments are completed on schedule.
Monitor commercialization performance and launch readiness, proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and advancing key decisions when appropriate.
Maintain access to the innovation portfolio by providing regular project status updates, tracking achievements, and communicating risks and mitigation plans.
Evaluate post-launch performance and assemble key learnings to improve future commercialization efforts and execution.
Support the continuous improvement of commercialization processes, tools, governance, and cross-functional ways of working.