Senior Innovation Manager

The Global Innovation and Beer Systems team is offering an exciting opportunity to join our team as Senior Innovation Manager based in Amsterdam. The role will be responsible for shaping, orchestrating and delivering of Innovation Future-Fit initiatives such as developing and evolving Innovation Platforms, identifying synergies and potential scalable solutions in the pipeline,  developing winning innovation propositions, as well as driving strong collaboration between Demand Space teams, Innovation Hubs, R&D and OpCos.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Leading and orchestrating the development of Innovation Programmes
   • Development and evolvement of Innovation Programmes and Platforms
   • Identifying potential synergies and driving scalable solutions in the pipeline
   • Steering future-fit innovation regional guidance for SP and AP
   • Driving learn/share/re-apply across the globe to drive scalable multi-market innovations
2. Identification of Innovation opportunities and concept development for scale Innovations (incl. technical)
   • Delivery of ‘front end’ Innovation for consumer and customer opportunities that require scale (often multi-million euro/ multi-year) incl. technical developments e.g. draught or packaging systems.
   • Development of compelling consumer propositions and concepts, based in penetrating insights and aligned to Demand Space thinking.   
3. Leadership of cross-functional project teams to deliver on key priorities
   • Identify, shape, build and lead multi-functional project teams to enable the delivery of the projects.
   • Own the deliverables at all stages, co-ordinating and leading across the project team to ensure on time in full delivery with excellence.
   • Ensure development of compelling business cases and track and manage project costs, maximising ROI and objectively assessing project viability, making recommendations to senior stakeholders throughout the process.
   • Working with Commercial Manager, ensure full Commercialisation of project to point of in market readiness.

Experience and Profile:

What:

• Education: University level
• Work experience: 10 + years
• Required work experience in field of expertise: Marketing, Innovation, development of Business Cases, significant Project Management experience
• Other fields of expertise: Cross-functional working, OPCO and ‘above OPCO’ (Global or Regional) experience
• Functional skills: End to end Innovation from through to delivery. Strong understanding across all Commercial levers and MWBs (Marketing and Sales). Ideal – 3rd party relationship management. 
• Languages: English

How:

• Key Leadership expectations: shape, connect, develop, deliver and/or role model HEINEKEN behaviors. Focus on Connect and Deliver.
• Communication skills: Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional project teams, aligning against vision and objectives and managing through to delivery. Strong stakeholder management.  
• Managing complexity: Able to manage highly complex projects with significant budgets and multi-functional teams, making everything as simple as possible and ensuring on time delivery. 
• Other skills: Sets stretching ambitions and targets, drives delivery, manages ambiguity and can galvanise broad multi-functional and cross-cultural teams and stakeholder

Interested?

       Apply now via the link. We are looking forward to recieving your application! 
 

About HEINEKEN

HEINEKEN is the world's most international brewer committed to surprise and excite consumers with its brands and products everywhere. The brand that bears the founder’s family name – Heineken® - is available in almost every country on the globe and is the world’s most valuable international premium beer brand. Led by the Heineken® brand, the Group has a portfolio of more than 300 international, regional, local and specialty beers and ciders. Through "Brew a Better World", sustainability is embedded in the business. HEINEKEN has a well-balanced geographic footprint with leadership positions in both developed and developing markets. HEINEKEN operate breweries, malteries, cider plants and other production facilities in more than 70 countries and employs over 82,000 employees.
A career with HEINEKEN offers great challenges combined with exciting opportunities to own and grow your career in line with your aspirations.

Embracing and celebrating diversity is core to HEINEKEN’s purpose of “brewing the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world”. We believe that people as diverse as our brews including and not limited to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, nationality, social background, disability and thinking style enrich our lives and strengthen our business. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates as we champion a culture of belonging that provides fair and equal opportunities for all.