Brand Innovation Director
OLLY PBC
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $179,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Build a disruptive innovation funnel 2027 – 2030+ at the intersection of health, wellness and beauty
- Manage the pipeline pf projects, move projects through stage gates, commercialize and launch the innovations year on year for national and custom retail partners
- Deliver breakthrough innovation that sticks - identify, explore, and drive white space innovation
- Translate cultural and social signals into product opportunities
- Create an innovation strategy across win, compete and maintain segments
- Partner with Insights to translate consumer learnings, foresight into actionable business initiatives – identifying unmet or under-served consumer, shopper, and/or customer needs and/or segments
- Help create innovation and category stories for strategic customers across brick and mortar and e-commerce
- Partner with Brand Strategy, Marketing & Finance & eCom to create innovations that deliver on all business goals
- Influence the broader Brand team on long-term brand & innovation strategy and identify key growth accelerators
Requirements
- 12 -15 years of brand experience in innovation and strategy within the CPG industry
- Proven experience in creating new markets, new categories and launching disruptive innovation year on year
- A fast and flexible leader who jumps on new opportunities and has a natural aptitude for collaboration across functions
- Solid analytical skills and experience working with syndicated data such as IRI Unify
- Ability to translate data into insights for actionable growth
- Knowledge and experience in working with all customer channels (including e-commerce)
- Exceptional verbal and visual communicator - can effectively story tell in PowerPoint and analyze data clearly in Excel
- Energy, passion and a strong desire to build a transformational brand in today’s marketplace
- Dedicated people leader, who can develop and teach
- MBA strongly preferred, but not required
Benefits
- An opportunity to work with an intelligent, inspiring, and extraordinarily fun team
- We pay 100% of the premiums for employee-only medical, dental + orthodontics, and vision insurance
- 4 weeks PTO + paid holidays + 12 Mental Health Days per year
- 100% Paid parental leave, Fertility + Adoption Benefits
- Annual Bonus
- 401(k) plan with Employer Match
- Hybrid Work + Wellness + Cell Phone Stipends
- Free product
- And much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
innovation strategybrand experiencemarket creationcategory developmentdisruptive innovationdata analysisconsumer insightse-commerce strategysyndicated datastorytelling
Soft skills
collaborationleadershipanalytical skillscommunicationflexibilitypassionenergyteachinginfluencecreativity
Certifications
MBA