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Premier Foods is a business with great momentum, with a purpose to enrich people’s lives through food. We’ve been doing it a long time - many of our much-loved brands have been part of UK life for more than a century. We have an ambitious vision for growth driven by Innovation, targeting 10% of the Company’s turnover to be driven by Innovation each year.

• We are looking for talented individuals to help drive our ambitious pipelines.
• You will be responsible for supporting the Innovation Leads in the creation, development and delivery to market of the innovation pipeline. This includes a range of essential EPD projects, as well as challenging NPD Big Bets.
• The roles offer a chance to be at the centre of our company’s growth journey, with a hands-on opportunity to make a meaningful, visible impact on our success.
• We have Innovation Manager opportunities in Desserts, Flavourings and Seasonings and Quick Meals, Snacks and Soups. Iconic and well-loved brands in these teams include Ambrosia, Mr Kipling, FUEL 10K, Batchelors, Sharwoods, Bisto, OXO, Paxo and SAXA.

You will…

• Develop consumer centric initiatives that enables Premier Foods to win in those focus areas
• lead innovation projects through the Gate process, aligning business leaders and securing the required resource
• take accountability for the P&L on those innovation projects, ensuring they are scalable and profitable for the business
• lead the wider cross-functional team to deliver success including R&D, Factory, 3rd Party & Commercial stakeholders
• stay connected to the external landscape & available technologies and apply this knowledge to our pipeline.
• We have exciting momentum and big ambitions, therefore need a strong leader who is up for and energised by the challenge to operate at pace, aim high, make our vision a reality.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU…?

• We are looking for individuals with proven marketing, innovation and commercial skills and a strong track record of results. You will need to be a capable strategic thinker, comfortable analysing and deriving insights from different sources of consumer and retail data. You will have a passion for creating new ideas and bringing them to life. You will be a strong team player with the ability to engage with a diverse set of stakeholders to achieve success.
• 3+ years successful experience within a leading FMCG or other brand-led organisation.
• A mix of innovation experiences including innovation development and project ownership.
• Strong bias for action, a high degree of personal accountability and an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Track record of working cross-functionally and leading projects to successful results in market.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable digging under the surface to uncover insights, reach logical conclusions and recommend actions back to the business in a compelling way.
• An individual who has a track record of getting the best out others with a collaborative and inclusive style

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING…?

• Contribute ideas to medium and long-term pipelines. Helping to create a funnel of winning concepts backed by strong rationale.
• Play a key role in the development of the pipeline through the exploration of consumer insight and market trends.
• Help shape the commercial strategy to form winning ideas, by identifying opportunities from category and trade lenses, and applying base understanding to a P&L.
• Take accountability for the successful launch of EPD/NPD projects, working to delivering on time and in full against the business targets:
• Own the business case through the gate stage process
• Influence timeline targets
• Lead project meetings from an innovation/brand lens
• Product: brief and review of recipes with R&D; support validation with Insight & Sensory teams
• Design: brief origination through to repro sign-off
• Budget: Process POs
• Supporting external sell-ins: creating sell stories; organising samples
• Supporting internal communication of projects: support/build content for Sales Conference
• Support Innovation Leads to drive a strong business case for the strategy within our cycles i.e. strategy reviews

Premier Foods is a business with great momentum, with a purpose to enrich people’s lives through food. We’ve been doing it a long time - many of our much-loved brands have been part of UK life for more than a century. We have an ambitious vision for growth driven by Innovation, targeting 10% of the Company’s turnover to be driven by Innovation each year.

• We are looking for talented individuals to help drive our ambitious pipelines.
• You will be responsible for supporting the Innovation Leads in the creation, development and delivery to market of the innovation pipeline. This includes a range of essential EPD projects, as well as challenging NPD Big Bets.
• The roles offer a chance to be at the centre of our company’s growth journey, with a hands-on opportunity to make a meaningful, visible impact on our success.
• We have Innovation Manager opportunities in Desserts, Flavourings and Seasonings and Quick Meals, Snacks and Soups. Iconic and well-loved brands in these teams include Ambrosia, Mr Kipling, FUEL 10K, Batchelors, Sharwoods, Bisto, OXO, Paxo and SAXA