Innovation Manager
Flowers Foods
- Georgia
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Comprehensive health and medical benefits
- 401(k) Retirement savings plan
- Professional growth and leadership training
- Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave
- Ability to guide Innovation Leadership Council through each gate review and aligns on approval to move onto next stage
- Understands company business model, customers’ needs, marketing, and product positioning
- Executes the annual business plan in partnership with cross-functional colleagues to deliver successful innovation projects that adheres to approved annual budget
- Tactically builds reporting functionality to track against an annual business plan
- Ensures all new products are following current food regulations
- Participates in strategy sessions with Brand Team and Cross-Functional Team members
- Maintains positive working relationships with cross-functional partners. Solves any challenges
- Collaboratively develops business cases for all proposed innovation items
- Confidently leads unbiased product review/cuttings for assigned projects.
- 7+ years of innovation, marketing, brand management, and/or R&D experience.
- Cross-functional experience spanning marketing, commercialization, sales, and supply chain.
- Experience with new product development and brining ideas/products to market
- Project management experience preferred