Global Associate Manager, Innovation and Futures

What makes this a great opportunity?

ABOUT SUNTORY GLOBAL SPIRITS:
Suntory Global Spirits is the world’s third largest premium spirits company with annual revenues of $5 billion and a clear 2030 ambition to become the world’s most admired and fastest growing premium spirits company.  Suntory Global Spirits is in the midst of an exciting business and culture transformation across a number of fundamental dimensions:
•    Evolution to become brand led, balanced with commercial and market excellence 
•    Commitment to further premiumize the portfolio 
•    Global business, process and ways of working Integration from a more disparate multi- country approach
•    Focus on building a Gemba-centric, inclusive culture
•    Strong commitment to accelerate its sustainability, including environmental, responsibility and diversity, equity and inclusion, efforts across the organization

Role Responsibilities

Role Overview
This role will support the global agenda on innovation for Suntory Global Spirits, acting as the catalyst for transformation and competitive advantage. Delivering future revenue growth, by providing consumer and customer centric solutions that can breakthrough and differentiate from the competition, propelling SGS in a rapidly changing landscape.

•    Be a change agent in shifting & transforming innovation approach & capabilities at SGS, to create fewer, bigger and better innovations
•    Project management of a wide range of key initiatives connected to innovation, ensuring key aspects are delivered within timelines and budget
•    Support the team in the identification of and creation of key platforms for innovation, synthesizing multiple data/sources and research to provide a framework that can be utilized by the organization as a whole. 
•    Assist with the integration of innovation process throughout business and help deliver key tools and training required, including providing key financial metrics and sizing guidance
•    Provide key support to internal portfolio reviews and the Seed to Sip Gate process. 
•    Manage the Innovation & Futures budget, to ensure spend is managed in line with budgets and projects are kept on track
•    Assist with management of key agencies, ensuring workplans are delivered to high standards, within KPIs

•    AGILITY- enable rapid iteration for new processes and improvements in our innovation systems
•    OUTSIDE FOCUSED - leverages external benchmarks to drive SGS improvements 
•    FUTURE FORWARD THINKER– requires you to be in-tune with market and consumer trends to be in a position to create and put in place strategic actions today that you know will be important for delivering commercial value in the future
•    STRONG COLLABORATIVE STYLE - breaking down any silos and encouraging more enterprise wide thinking and approaches to garner the best ideas and solutions for the business, whilst being ready to constructively challenge and take the tough decisions when necessary
•    INNOVATIVE THINKER - actively exploring and experimenting with new approaches, ideas, technologies and partnerships to deliver on rapid growth ideas
•    FAST-FAIL MENTALITY– encourage a culture that embraces a mentality of fast-failure and rapid experimentation
•    EMBRACE A CULTURE OF CONTINUOUS LEARNING & IMPROVEMENT - extract key learnings to share within the organization and iterate approaches as needed

Qualifications

•    4-6 years’ experience in marketing or innovation
•    Bachelor's degree in marketing, business or related field preferred
•    Broad skillset with good judgment and a mature, practical, strategic and commercial mindset
•    Curiosity for learning, with a consumer and customer centric approach
•    An entrepreneurial, self-starter who deals confidently with the unknown
•    Influences and collaborates across teams, multicultural environments, and the organization
•    Enterprise wide thinking and approach
•    Strong project management 
•    Experience with agency management

Salary Range - The salary range for this role based in New York is $120,000 to $135,000 along with an annual bonus, 401K match, profit sharing, and medical and wellness benefits. The salary range is commensurate with the candidate’s location, experience, and skillset. 

Travel
Up to 15% global travel