Head of Innovation

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Think & Grow Full time

Build the engine behind physical product innovation at scale. We're partnering with a high-growth, tech-led manufacturing business that's redefining how the world's most loved beauty, health, and wellness products come to life. This company blends cloud-based systems, smart supply chain infrastructure, and real-time manufacturing orchestration to help global brands get to market faster with less waste, greater visibility, and better outcomes.

We're now hiring a Innovation Manager to lead the most mission-critical team in the business: the function responsible for taking products from brief to purchase order. You'll lead product execution end-to-end managing a team and being a cross functional support for supplier partners, and customer delivery. You'll be responsible for how products are developed, tracked, and handed over with speed, precision, and commercial viability. As the first executive leader in this function, you'll build the foundations for product innovation at scale and set the standard for what world-class execution looks like.

You'll Be Responsible For:

  • Leading the full lifecycle of product development across all SKUs owning execution from initial customer brief to signed purchase order.
  • Managing and scaling a high-performing team of product developers and project managers with a focus on executional excellence.
  • Coordinating supplier relationships globally, ensuring components and samples are delivered on time, to spec, and with minimal friction.
  • Acting as the key escalation point for delays, issues, and quality concerns, while maintaining clear communication across customers and internal teams.
  • Collaborating across the business (Sales, Design, Supply Chain, Supplier Growth) to ensure successful handoffs and commercial impact.
  • Designing and refining processes and internal systems to accelerate time-to-market, reduce development churn, and improve conversion rates.

Your work will have direct commercial impact, with metrics such as:

  • Time-to-SKU developed
  • Conversion of briefs to purchase orders
  • Reduction in sample iteration cycles
  • On-time delivery rate
  • Monthly value of purchase orders closed

You will possess:

  • Strong leadership skills and executional DNA, you drive clarity, momentum, and results.
  • A commercial mindset, able to balance delivery with customer satisfaction and business viability.
  • Skilled in managing complexity and ambiguity, and turning moving parts into structured, trackable outcomes.
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams and working directly with external suppliers and customers.
  • The ability to remain calm under pressure and energised by high-stakes environments, you lead from the front with confidence and purpose.
  • Curious about the future of physical product creation, and excited to play a role in shaping it.
  • Experience in leadership roles in innovation, or program management within a fast-growth tech business.
  • Exposure to beauty, wellness, or military is a bonus, not a barrier.

At Think & Grow, we partner with the companies redefining what's possible, helping them scale through talent, systems, and strategy. We work at the growth edge of business to deliver real transformation through people.

Interested?

Apply now or reach out to our team for a confidential conversation.


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