Innovation Manager

**Description**:
Twinings & Co has a proud history spanning over 300 years and operates on a global scale. With strong brand positioning we are viewed as a market leader in our field. The Australian operations continue to enjoy a positive growth trajectory. We are a high performing business that is focused on employing the best talent in the market to deliver on the business’ clear vision for success.

We have an exciting opportunity to join Twinings & Co as an Innovation Manager. This role will be responsible for the development and delivery of the Twinings Innovation pipeline. This role will lead the development of a 5-year innovation funnel, which will deliver end to end development of priority innovation projects through the stage & gate process. Additionally, this role will manage ongoing health and sufficiency of innovation through the monthly portfolio review, ensuring profitable portfolio growth and delivery to the 5-year ambition.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Build a profitable 5-year innovation pipeline for Twinings.
- Lead development of innovation, from platform generation and ideation through to fully validated concepts ready to launch.
- Leverage macro trends and consumer insights throughout the innovation process.
- Manage sufficiency of the innovation pipeline, ensuring innovation mix and initiatives are reviewed through portfolio review meetings to facilitate ongoing brand growth.
- Lead ‘go-to-market’ planning for disruptive innovation, working collaboratively with connections, category and sales teams.
- Mange the P&L for disruptive innovation initiatives.
- Engage with a cross functional team (local and global) to ensure delivery of projects and development of plans.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Tertiary qualification in Marketing or Business Management
- Strong experience of marketing/ innovation, preferably within the FMCG industry
- Experience leading or managing Portfolio Review meetings
- Knowledge of marketing practice and best practice innovation including agile, design led thinking
- Experience with successfully launching NPD, preferably within the FMCG industry
- Computer literacy skills & proficient in Microsoft suite.
- Ability to work flexibly with the global team, engaging in calls outside of regular office hours

**Benefits**:

- Additional 1% Superannuation
- Flexible / Hybrid working options
- Birthday Day Leave
- Discounted Twinings Co products

**About Twinings Ovaltine**:
Twinings has become one of the world’s most loved tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We are passionate about tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.

More than 300 years later, the passion for tea is still here - and so are we We still sell tea from Thomas's shop, and we still work hard to bring the most exciting new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.

**How we feel about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**

TwiningsOvo is committed to bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We seek to create a diverse, equitable & inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do impactful work together. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, age or any other status protected by law and are committed to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our workplace.

Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.