Sr. Manager, Innovation Commercialization - FBS/RTD, NYC or Chicago

Suntory Global Spirits•New York, NY

22d•$135,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day. As the Senior Manager, Innovation Commercialization, you will shape how we bring innovation to market and continuously improve how we commercialize it. You will translate innovation strategy into clear launch ambitions, quantified channel opportunities and executable customer plans; track performance and turn learnings into action; and continuously improve how we commercialize by simplifying, automating and integrating the process across the business. This role may be based out of the New York City or Chicago office.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field
3-5yr innovation commercialization + 3-5yr brand, commercial strategy, category management, sales strategy, or trade marketing (CPG /Spirits preferred)
Strong cross-functional leadership and influence without authority; comfortable driving governance forums.
Strong analytical skills (opportunity sizing, scenario modeling, performance diagnosis)
Excellent communication and influencing skills; able to produce concise decision materials and sales ready narratives
Excellent project management; able to develop and drive processes

Responsibilities

Turn innovation strategy into clear, commercially executable launch plans.
Set the launch ambition. Define innovation tiers and the distribution, investment, customer support and execution expectations for each.
Size the commercial opportunity. Partner with marketing, insights and category development team to establish channel-specific targets, including distribution and velocity assumptions.
Drive launch planning & readiness. Build executive recommendations and translate approved innovation pipeline into actionable launch plans, ensuring priority launches have all required tools for sell-in and execution.
Turn in-market performance into action and stronger future launches.
Track launch performance. Establish KPIs and scorecards to measure innovation performance against agreed commercial goals and identify gaps and opportunities early.
Drive post-launch action. Integrate innovation performance reviews into performance cycle and partner with cross-functional teams to address opportunities and course-correct where needed.
Build learning into future launches. Translate performance and customer learnings into improved benchmarks, assumptions, tiering and execution standards.
Make innovation commercialization simpler, faster, more connected and increasingly automated.
Own and evolve the commercialization playbook. Establish clear standards, tools, inputs, decision points and ways of working from approval through post-launch.
Simplify & automate. Remove unnecessary complexity and automate recurring inputs, analysis, reporting and outputs to improve speed and consistency.
Integrate commercialization into the business. Embed key milestones, decisions and outputs into broader processes including Seed to Sip, IFT and Innovation KPI goal setting, Performance Review