Sr Brand Manager, Innovation

Glanbia • Downers Grove, IL

4d • $140,000 - $170,000

About The Position

From athletes to remote workers, people around the world want to eat well and live healthier, more active lives. Our award-winning performance and lifestyle brands inspire our customers to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals. Whether you want to build muscle, reach peak performance, eat more protein-rich foods, or lose weight, we have a product to match. Glanbia Performance Nutrition brands include Optimum Nutrition, Isopure, BSN, think!, and Amazing Grass.
The Senior Brand Manager of Innovation will be responsible for driving short term growth and planning for long term growth across the Innovation platforms, while building consensus across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 6-8 years’ experience in Food or Beverage industry
• Proven experience in leading and launching new production innovation in both fuzzy front end innovation and closer in innovation
• Proven experience moving innovation through a matrix organization at a rapid pace.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Design Thinking or Lean Start Up methodologies a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the brand pipeline in alignment with overall business and brand objectives.
• Identify emerging food trends, market gaps, and consumer insights to inform proposition development
• Prioritize lead propositions using the desirability, feasibility and viability framework
• Lead the execution of the brand pipeline; managing timing and proposition delivery with effective contingency planning
• Drive proposition development and validation, collaborating with cross-functional teams including Insights, R&D, Operations, and Sales.
• Partner with the brand team and sales to determine lead go-to market approach
• Collaborate with Insights to ensure consumer centric innovation and validation of critical assumptions.
• Work closely with R&D to understand product capabilities, unique selling propositions and to iteratively prototype.
• Collaborate with Sales to create effective sales stories
• Collaborate with Finance to build viable P&Ls

Benefits

• The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.
• Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the salary range for this role is $140,000 - 170,000 plus an annual bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level