Global Head of Innovation - Wimbledon, United Kingdom - Alexander Lloyd

Alexander Lloyd

Verified Company

Wimbledon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Global Head of Innovation

Location - South London with VERY flexible working options

£65,000/£75,000 + bens

Alexander Lloyd are proud to be exclusively partnering a progressive and forward thinking International Retail/FMCG Organisation with the key hire of a Global Head of Innovation

Reporting into the Director of Brand & Product - The Global Head of Innovation will create and lead the organisations Innovation Pipeline, driving consumer focused, creativity & innovation and ensuring they deliver on the objective of being a leader in naturalwellness.

Key responsibilities

Develop the Innovation strategy mapping out the next 5 years to ensure they have a continuous, strategically appropriate level of newness that drives the business globally.
Work with the Brand team to generate ideas and build Innovation into the Global Brand Strategy.
Lead a cross functional R&D team to take the Innovation through to concept stage including commercially sizing each opportunity working with the Product team.
Develop critical paths & initial business cases for each project in conjunction with the Product team to map the Innovation into our NPD calendar & budgets.
Lead and embed a new Innovation Process, adapting, shaping and driving continuous improvement.
To deliver a monthly report on the global consumer landscape including consumer trends, new product launches & relevant changes in market dynamics
To gather and/or commission market & consumer research to inform us on the trends, insights & data to shape our plans or validate our decisions.
Responsible for developing ideas through to concept approval establishing the potential supplier for each initiative.
Help to build and shape our ESG strategy, ensuring all Innovation not only considers the strategy but also pushes the agenda.
10+ years of experience in creative product development, in relevant consumer goods such as Natural Healthcare/Beauty/OTC.
Proven track record of success developing new products in a global business.
Strong technical knowledge of natural healthcare (or similar) products, ingredients, packaging etc.
A deep consumer understanding and passion for continuously growing this knowledge.
Experience of commissioning/collating market & consumer, trends, insight & data and consolidating these into insightful, focused reports.
Experience of working with 3rd parties i.e. agencies, suppliers, clinicals, licensing, development projects.
Experience of working in a regulated industry.

This is only one of many vacancies we are handling. Alexander Lloyd is the leading recruiter across a range of roles within the FMCG sector.