This role is known for the successful creation & delivery of a pipeline of consumer-led innovation Futures Core activities to deliver the financial targets of their innovation, GP, Future Core and in some cases Core Innovation. They ensure that both creating new opportunities for new spaces guided by Foresight future trends to continue to delight consumers to remain relevant & competitive. In addition, packaging innovation is a vital element for creating differentiation, and consumer driven functionality.
Business partner is mainly Future Core portfolio marketing, and in extension 1 or more Category or MU Marketing managers, Supply Chain. The key purpose of this role is to drive and deliver defined R&D Futures projects and programme in Next Generation Packaging, Transformational projects and sustainable material. Connecting seamless with rest packaging/manufacturing community to bridge the current and future packaging/product/processing solution.
We need someone who is a technology leader with passion about innovation out of box thinking, and who is curious about the role our products and packaging play in our consumers lives, and different routes to do this. They should have an appreciation of how our consumers behaviours differ across our markets and ways to reach consumers.
Requires a person that will focus on packaging innovation. As this role will needs to build good connection with Supply Chain (Central and SU), and marketing.
This person should be able to show the following behaviours: empathy, creativity, experimentation, work collaborative with internal and external partners and also understanding through the packaging/product solution design process (one innovation).
Guided by Future Foresight and insights has the ability to couple it with the packaging with good understanding of product concept to deliver best proposition for consumers and entering new spaces.
They should have an appreciation of the marketing mix and be able to understand market solution (packaging) needs to ensure that packaging solution are scalable (fewer, bigger, better).
We need a person who can business partner with Insights and Future Core marketing to create winning concepts & can partner with Supply Chain & R&D colleagues to bring packaging concepts to life in the form of pilot & industrial prototypes. Has the understanding how we move from concept inspiration to pilot to an industrial scale solution.
Partner with Future Core marketing to hold a view of latest development on packaging process and materials across the globe and how they could help us grow on Nomad Future Core proposition.
They should have a passion for food & solid technical understanding of new packaging technology and materials, processes & supply chain within their category & continuously seeking new solution to apply. Using the latest tools available, and be capable to connect with the outside world successfully. And has ability to identify solution globally that can be used for Nomad.
They should be someone who can lead and deliver technical projects, ensuring compliance with regulatory & Nomad policies and procedures. They should appreciate the need to design for manufacture and the need to continuously seek manufacturing efficiencies & economies of scale & balance this with the need to retaining key attributes.
They must have good people leadership skills, with experience managing matrix project.
Finally, the role requires a good business awareness and commercial understanding to be able to appreciate the contributions of their projects & the implications of not delivering against the targets.
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