Job Description :

Job Title: Head of Innovation Commercialisation IOI [Island Of Ireland]  

Location: Dublin

  

About the role  

 

Innovation is a critical part of the Diageo business and plays a key role in brand building, driving brand equity, recruiting new consumers in new occasions as well as supporting premiumisation and building the ‘triple win’.

Playing a key role in our Marketing Leadership Team, this role will craft the future brand portfolio for IOI, defining the Innovation Pipeline and strategy to deliver 20% contribution to the IOI P&L growth by F27!

About you  

Are you a bold and innovative leader who thrives in setting a brave ambition and who enjoys working cross-functionally to deliver exciting and breakthrough innovations?

8+ years of relevant marketing experience – delivery in Consumer or Customer Marketing leadership roles.  Outstanding ability to build and maintain genuine relationshipsSuccessful management of senior partners at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes. Creative problem solver   Holistic abilities across all marketing pillars as well as a track record of leading ground-breaking business results. Ability to excel when navigating ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced and matrixed environment. Strong end to end commercial FMCG understanding, alongside high levels of numerical capability and attention to detail. Experience of leading a team, whether directly or indirectly. 

In this role you will: ​

Shape the future of the Innovation strategy and lead the execution and implementation through the deep understanding of customer needs, using these insights to lead and develop projects  Drive the Innovation gate process in IOI by leading key projects with the cross-functional teams, facilitating, and adhering to the scope required & aligning key collaborators to drive brilliant business outcomes for Innovation projects and the pipeline.  Develop and nurture relationships with key Stakeholders in the Market, all functions, Europe Innovation and Supply, (Beer and European Spirits, Brand Change Teams)    Partnering with the European innovation team to deliver the pipeline, working with them to bring the innovations successfully to market.  Work in conjunction with the marketing team to bring projects to Gate approval ensuring robust science-based validation has taken place in market to enable approval of pack, concept and size of prize.  ​​Working with teams across Brand, Activation and RGM to lead best in class launches, champion and lead exit plans where required, drive interventions when needed and always ensure we deliver our Annual Operating Plan.Collaborate with commercial and brand teams to set clear launch objectives  owning the review and course correction where needed for each and every launch.Lead the performance review in all internal BPM sessions, as well as with cross functional teams to build the Innovation growth code and growth drivers to support IOI launch.  Monitor execution for Innovation ensuring prioritisation across IOI channels & customers to deliver the biggest impact in market working closely with consumer and shopper planning to develop key learning plans.  Embed & lead the performance management of Innovation within the working day performance cycle within the Island of Ireland – creating performance management tools and visibility of performance vs. our business gate ambition and AOP.  Lead the IOI & Europe Innovation Finance Monthly BPM Review, with the ability to identify drivers of performance. Establish outstanding commercialisation principles for the IOI business across Innovation process, ways of working, tools, accountabilities with a view to improving probability of success.Key Collaborators will be the Irish Executive Leadership team along with Brand, Commercial and Supply leadership teams. 

  

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for Diageo to thrive and for us to realize our ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

 

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

St James Gate

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-10