Manager, Innovation

Pernod Ricard • New York, NY

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you passionate about bringing bold ideas to life and driving innovation that shapes the future of consumer experiences? As an Innovation Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in launching new products across the U.S. market ensuring they’re market-ready, performance-optimized, and aligned with business priorities. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate across global and national teams, manage cross-functional workstreams, and contribute meaningfully to how innovation fuels growth. Join us in transforming creativity into scaled commercial success. This role is perfect for a strategic thinker with a portfolio lens—someone who sees the bigger picture and understands how each initiative ladders up to broader business goals. You thrive in fast-paced environments and excel at connecting the dots across teams to drive impact. You’re highly organized, collaborative, and passionate about operational & executional excellence. You bring a strong commercial mindset, an enterprise-wide perspective, and know how to turn insights into action that moves the business forward. If you're energized by aligning cross-functional efforts, influencing stakeholders, and seeing your work come to life in the market, this role is for you.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field (MBA a plus).
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in commercial, trade marketing, sales planning, or innovation execution.
• Experience with product launch planning, retail activation, and performance tracking.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint), digital collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint), PowerBI and Nielsen systems
• Experience with stage-gate frameworks, commercialization processes, and KPI ownership.
• Experience in Bev-Alc or CPG industries.

Responsibilities

• Execution Excellence & Commercial Readiness Partner with the Innovation Director and Brand teams to align on commercial priorities for new product launches across all channels (e.g., liquor, grocery, mass, convenience).
• Support Brand and Market Performance teams to position Year 2 innovations for sustained growth.
• Lead coordination and timely delivery of sales tools, programming assets, and communication materials to ensure executional readiness.
• Manage the U.S. sales sample process for innovation sell-in, including logistics and timing in collaboration with Global Innovation and Brand teams.
• Drive asset availability and content organization across internal platforms (e.g., Content Cloud, Teams, SharePoint).
• Integrate innovation into annual planning cycles and key programming timeframes to ensure sufficient focus and share-of-mind.
• Monitor innovation performance across key milestones (90/180/365 days), ensuring visibility and alignment across brand and commercial teams.
• Support forecast benchmarking and commercial KPI development (e.g., distribution, depletions) in partnership with Market Performance and Innovation Director.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Commercial Excellence teams to optimize post-launch programming and drive impact.
• Serve as the innovation lead for NielsenIQ data management, ensuring accurate item coding and performance tracking.
• Champion innovation visibility across teams, serving as the connective link between Brand, Sales, and Field/Trade Marketing.
• Represent the innovation portfolio in cross-functional forums, providing actionable feedback on launch performance and execution gaps.
• Support forecasting frameworks for innovation business cases and ensure milestone delivery throughout the Stage Gate Governance process.
• Participate in S&OP product review calls to ensure alignment between Supply/Operations, Global Innovation, and U.S. Brand teams.
• Co-develop national selling materials and launch execution playbooks with Brand teams to support consistent and compelling sell-in.
• Maintain internal communication cadence to share updates on innovation pipeline, asset availability, programming changes, and product specifications.
• Contribute to internal executive meetings to ensure innovation visibility and strategic alignment across stakeholders.

Benefits

• Being part of an inclusive and diverse company where professional development and internal career mobility is front-and-center to our talent strategy.
• You'll be part of a culture that celebrates the rich diversity of our people across the globe and be part of our long-standing commitment to making exceptional products, giving back to our communities, and honoring our responsibility to preserve the environment.
• Our work philosophy celebrates the magic of human connection with the flexibility needed to provide one's most meaningful contribution.
• We offer a flexible work policy, with most of our positions offering a hybrid option with flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week.
• As a global employer, we understand that not everyone’s working hours are the same, and we empower our employees to work the hours that make the most sense for them and their team’s schedules.
• We offer employees great benefits and perks to toast to a life filled with support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees