Associate Manager, Innovation - Mississauga, Canada - Keurig Dr Pepper

Keurig Dr Pepper

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Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Job Overview:

Associate Manager Innovation - Innovation Stage Gate & Brewers

Department:
Strategy and Innvoation

Status:
Contract (6 months)

Location:
Mississauga (Hybrid)

THE OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to Innovation Manager, this role will be the functional expert that will guide brand, technical and supply chain project leads effectively through the innovation process to bring new products to market.

As the expert, process ownership and adherence by others to it is key to successful implementation.

In addition, identifying opportunities for continuous improvements to help streamline the process and make it more efficient will be central to this position.

This role will also be responsible for managing and implementing innovation projects for the brewers portfolio of Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) in Canada.

This means supporting launch of new product categories, new platforms and brand extension lines for our Keurig brand.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:
Snapshot of some of the exciting things you will drive and influence:

Innovation process governance and continuous improvements (65%)

Champion executional excellence and adherence to KDPs' New Stage Gate / New Product Introduction 2.0 commercialization process
Onboard new members of KDP cross functional teams to ensure understanding of NPI process and drive quarterly training program
Manage regular updates to innovation project tracker for gate status, follow ups from any gate meetings, timing for next gate and gate financials.
Report progress on gate progression for all innovation projects based on key milestone dates
Maintain cadence for Innovation cross functional meetings and adherence to project milestones for the Partners & PL businesses
Plan annual calendar of NPI meetings and workback schedule for key deliverables to present gate documents at those meetings.
Align with Innovation director on agenda for NPI meeting and which projects are presented live vs MS teams approvals.
Oversee access and maintenance of NPI sharepoint site to maintain firewalls, update users accordingly and archive all
Gather documents for preread and coordinate with presentation owners to ensure adherence to NPI process/agenda
Chair NPI committee, send out preread/MS teams approvals, record outcomes and share back with project lead any approvals or outcomes.
Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities for NPI process to help drive efficiency and effectiveness.
Drive these continuous improvement topics and actions across crossfunctional teams and ensure adherence across teams

Brewer Innovations (35%)

Support all Brewer portfolio innovation projects moving from ideation, concept testing, supply to production
Play the role of PM, manage the Stage Gate process from start to finish and ensure alignments related to brewer portfolio
Lead Innovation cross functional meetings & participate in SC OPS meeting for brewers
Work closely with Supply Chain, Production, Demand Planning, Finance to ensure NPI milestones
Provide regular innovation updates as part of monthly brand reviews
Lead postmortem analysis and partner with cross functional teams to ensure KPI progress is tracked, and results are consolidated for brewers portfolio
Work closely with US teams project teams, inform on project timelines
Work closely with consumer insights to conduct concept and panel tests
Support commercial strategy, RGM, shopper marketing teams with sales decks where necessary
Support Innovation manager by analyzing consumer, category, sales trends for whitespace opportunity mapping and innovation roadmap

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in marketing
Minimum of 24+ years experience in product innovation, and 46 years experience preferably in the food, beverage or consumer packaged goods industries
Strong project management skills and comfortable multitasking between different projects
Selfmotivated, results oriented with the ability to lead new projects in fastpaced environment
Strong collaborative skills to build stakeholder trust across multiple levels and teams
Strong analytical skills, ability to map consumer, category and market data to arrive at innovation opportunities

COMPETENCIES

Proficiency in MS Project; Project management certification is an asset
Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Proficiency in Nielsen (Consumption, Panel, BASES)

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Company Overview:
Keurig Dr Pepper (

NASDAQ:
KDP) is a modern beverage company with a bold vision built to deliver growth and opportunity.

We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values.

We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it

Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot