Innovation Manager

**About the role**

Join Dulux Decorative Paints in this dynamic opportunity to drive key insight and innovation programs within the business across both consumers and customers. Reporting to the Head of Customer Experience, the Dulux Innovation Manager is responsible for driving a customer-centric innovation agenda, in close liaison with Brand, R&D, Category & Sales teams.

You will manage and evaluate the ideation pipeline, bringing the best ideas to business cases to create leading-edge and commercially robust 3-5-year horizon innovation plans, aligned to larger trends and overarching Category and Brand strategies. This role will extend beyond validation, leading key breakthrough innovation projects from end-to-end, with support from Brand and R&D teams. You will use both your analytical and creative mind to disrupt current approaches to innovation, and look to embed faster approaches across different pillars of innovation.

We're seeking an experienced marketing or insights professional who has a passion for innovation and a natural curiosity for customers and their behaviour. You will be confident in liaising and influencing senior stakeholders and feel at ease in working collaboratively to deliver big outcomes. You will be known as a problem solver, unafraid of trialing new ways to address old problems and create new energy to drive innovation into its next horizon at Dulux.

**Responsibilities**
- Champion consumer-led innovation with your creativity & commercial insights
- Disrupt current thinking with more agile and experimentation approaches to innovation
- Design, implement and translate key innovation research into action
- Conduct bespoke and continuous market research programs
- Identify commercially substantial innovation for growth & meaningful KPI's against which to judge success for key stakeholder approval
- Develop creative and unique ways for idea generation to feed the Decorative Paints innovation pipeline

**Skills & Experience**
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Ability to confidently liaise and influence senior stakeholders
- Strategic Thinking with experience managing cross-functional teams
- understanding of brand strategy and portfolio management principles
- 5+ yrs in either a Consumer focused Brand portfolio across either FMCG / Consumer Goods
- Minimum Bachelors Marketing or Business Degree

**Why DuluxGroup?**

As a member of our team, you'll unleash your potential, grow, achieve and thrive with us.

We offer a fast-paced work environment that values collaboration, rewards high-performance, and inspires innovation.

But it's not just about the work - it's also about the people.

At DuluxGroup, we foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and flexibility. We care about your wellbeing, and we prioritise your safety in everything we do. You'll work alongside people who value your unique perspectives and contributions.

If you're ready to join a compassionate and collaborative workplace, your opportunity starts here.

**Benefits**
- Opportunities to work flexibly at all stages of your career
- Enjoy comprehensive, holistic health and well-being support, including our Wellbeing Hub and full EAP support
- Let us cover the gap for you, employees with private health insurance extras cover can claim up to $1000 out of pocket gap costs annually
- Give back to the communities in which we live and work, with our "Community Action Day" and other programs
- Market leading Learning and Development initiatives and genuine career pathways to accelerate your growth
- 20 weeks paid parental leave (primary carers) and 2 weeks paid partner leave available from the first day you start working with us.
- Feel truly valued through our employee recognition programs
- Enjoy generous discounts on DuluxGroup products and through our corporate partnerships

**Realising your full potential starts here**

At DuluxGroup, we believe in the power to 'Imagine a better place', and we want you to be a part of it

You'll work with iconic, trusted household brands with a 100+ year history, have the stability of working for a global company and your work will have a real impact. Join us and be part of our growth trajectory as we continue to expand our business globally and innovate in our industry.

DuluxGroup is made up of six main business areas comprising of 50 well recognised brands, this opportunity sits within our **Dulux Paints and Coatings **business. **Dulux Paints and Coatings** is Australia's leading marketer and manufacturer of premium branded decorative paints, woodcare coatings and texture coatings.

**Dulux Paints and Coatings**

**Dulux Paints and Coatings** is Australia's leading marketer and manufacturer of premium branded decorative paints, woodcare coatings and texture coatings.

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