Sr Brand Manager, Innovation

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead the Innovation Pipeline:

• 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

Lead the Proposition Development:

• 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

Drive with Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• 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

Key Qualifications

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

This role will work closely with Insights, R&D, Brand Teams and the Sales Organization to drive new differentiated propositions into market.

What we would like to offer you!

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. Apply now and make a difference in the world of health and wellness! Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the salary range for this role is $140,000 - 170,000 plus an annual bonus. This range may not be applicable to other locations and targeted salary is midpoint of range. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. Glanbia has a unique portfolio of better nutrition brands and ingredients, addressing growing consumer demand in major health and nutrition categories. We play into the growing market trends of active lifestyles and, health and wellness.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.