Job Description

Job Description

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Bring your passion and talent to our stage and continue to share our future and deliver innovative products to our consumers.

The Juice Plus team is looking a strategic, creative and results-oriented marketer who thrives in a fast-paced environment where chartering a clear path in the face of ambiguity, bringing others along, and executing flawlessly are crucial. This is an exciting opportunity as the team develops an innovation strategy and executes new and exciting launches across a portfolio of brands. This role will be responsible for leading innovation for the Naked brand.

As a Marketing Innovation Manager on the Juice Plus team, you will be a critical team in driving the continued growth of the brands in our portfolio.

This role will help set the innovation strategy and develop a robust innovation pipeline while helping to execute other prioritized innovation projects. The candidate in this role will be responsible for complex breakthrough innovations, capital investment projects, as well as refresh innovations.

We are a nimble team, this experience will develop and showcase your ability to stay on top of leading trends, think strategically, act quickly and think outside the box to fully realize product ideas from concept to launch.

Key Accountabilities:

* Help develop the long-term innovation strategy and launch cadence recommendation

* Balance art and science, leveraging your deep understanding of the consumer and trends to make gut instinct decisions, while balancing with insights & analytics to drive a data-oriented learning agenda

* Develop new products through close partnership with R&D and supply chain with speed to market as a focus

* Lead new concept/pipeline packaging creative including trend analysis, consumer research and design by partnering with internal design and insights teams as necessary

* Partner with commercial and sales strategy team to create best in class sell story and tools for sell-in

* Coordinate innovation launch calendar and ensure support and alignment from sales

* Lead best-in-class cross-functional partnership skills across the organization including insights, finance, supply chain, R&D, sales, and agency partners

* Manage the budget for innovation development

Qualifications/Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

* MBA strongly preferred; Must have a BS/BA degree with more than 5 years of direct, full-time work experience

* Previous CPG and/or agency innovation experience strongly preferred

* Strong project management skills and cross-functional team experience

* Strong demonstrative leadership potential

* A passion for understanding consumer behavior and an ability to translate trends and insights into product ideas that uniquely satisfy unmet needs

* Can-do spirit with an aptitude in dealing with ambiguity facilitated by a penchant for creative-thinking and problem-solving

* Ability to keep others engaged and accountable while delivering results flawlessly and on-time

* A sense of urgency, a bias for action, and strong attention to detail

* Strong written and oral communication skills

* A curiosity to learn about any and all parts of innovation (pack, product, etc.) and the functions (operations, supply, etc.) that go into turning concepts into products

* A flexible and 360 marketing/GM like mindset

* The role is based in Chicago, IL

This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States

Relocation Eligible: Not Eligible for Relocation
Job Type: Regular