About the Role
As Brand Innovation Manager for Eve, you will shape and deliver the innovation pipeline that keeps the brand growing and relevant. You will turn consumer insight into new product concepts, build the business case, set pricing, and guide ideas through to launch, owning the innovation roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver innovative brand concepts grounded in consumer insight, market trends and competitive analysis.
- Build the business case for each innovation, including market sizing, revenue and profitability projections, and secure leadership approval.
- Set pricing strategy and manage the profit and loss forecast for innovation projects, working with finance on cost and margin.
- Lead the innovation gate reviews, coordinating documentation and cross functional alignment on priorities and resources.
- Partner with R&D, regulatory, supply chain and commercial teams, and manage external partners and agencies.
- Track innovation performance against plan and keep senior management updated on progress and results.
- Guide and support more junior team members on innovation practice.
Requirements
- Proven experience in brand management, innovation or product development.
- Track record of launching new products, ideally in the Japanese consumer market.
- Fluent Japanese and English, written and spoken.
Skills
- Strong analytical and financial modelling ability
- Solid project management
- Cross functional leadership
- Confident use of consumer insight
- Market research
- Excel
- PowerPoint
Education Level
- A degree in marketing, business, engineering or a related field.
- An MBA is welcome but not required.
About the Company
- Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.
- Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be.
- At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers.
- Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.
- As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.
