About the Role
Responsible for category planning and execution throughout the Product Lifecycle and driving business growth through profitable innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end innovation process from opportunity identification through commercialization oversight.
- Oversee product costing, specifications, packaging, sensory evaluations, and production readiness.
- Leverage market trends, consumer insights, and customer needs to deliver differentiated innovations.
- Foster collaboration across Category Marketing and Customer Marketing teams.
- Develop and execute multi-year customer strategy by translating insights into growth opportunities.
- Align cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders around strategic priorities.
- Analyze customer performance to provide insight-led recommendations.
- Drive disciplined project execution by establishing clear priorities and ensuring accountability.
- Live and role model leadership competencies, holding self and function accountable for a positive work environment.
- Ensure proper onboarding and development of staff through coaching, PDP dialogues, and performance calibration.
- Participate in and develop succession plans.
- Ensure completion of function compliance training.
- Make recommendations for staff merit and bonus targets.
- Ensure an engaged workforce through strategic workforce planning and execution of Employee Survey action plans.
Requirements
- 7-10 years’ experience in a CPG marketing role.
- Outstanding people management and team leadership skills.
- Strong situational leadership skills with the ability to adapt to changing business needs.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, solve problems, and deliver results.
- Experience developing marketing and sales materials, including brochures, sell sheets, website and social media content, and presentations.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, with strong expertise in Excel.
- Strong sense of urgency and responsiveness when supporting internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to identify opportunities, develop solutions, and drive initiatives forward.
- Proven ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
Skills
- Marketing
- Business
- People management
- Team leadership
- Situational leadership
- Project management
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- Interpersonal skills
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Time management
- Problem-solving
- Collaboration
Experience Level
- 7-10 years
Education Level
- University diploma in Marketing, Business, or a related field
Benefits
- Commitment to preserving diversity & culture
- People-focused environment
- Environment encouraging sharing new ideas, experimenting, and learning
About the Company
- As we grow, we are committed to preserving the parts of our diversity & culture that is unique, people-focused and are core to our success at every size.
- Our values of Quality, Direct Communication and Respect mean something.
- We are working to create an environment where sharing new ideas, experimenting and learning from each other is strongly encouraged.
