ABOUT US

Pernod Ricard is a global premium spirits and wine company. We’re the team behind leading brands such as ABSOLUT® Vodka, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Malibu®, Kahlúa® Liqueur, Beefeater® Gin, and Avión™ Tequila, as well as many more superior wines and exquisite champagnes!

Working at Pernod Ricard is all about igniting conviviality in that all that we do. Derived from the French word, convivialité…it means human connection, authenticity, friendly, and jovial. Conviviality is energy and spirit with a splash of je ne sais quoi and is a core philosophy around how we live and work at Pernod Ricard. Here, we are team players, dream makers, trailblazers, movers and (cocktail) shakers. We have a passion for living life to the fullest, making a new friend every day, and realizing our potential as people and as a business!

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you passionate about working with iconic brands, fostering innovation and delivering exceptional consumer experiences? Do you want to be part of an international, diverse and inclusive team that values collaboration, creativity and fun? Then look no further than us!

Our Global Innovation Team is looking for an Innovation Manager to work with Malibu, Kahlúa, and our agave brands on a global international scope of work. This role is based in Stockholm, Sweden, among The Absolut Group affiliate, in order to enhance closer collaborations with our brand teams based there.

Innovation is a must win battle for us and is at heart of the value creation of our Group. Our Global Innovation Team has an holistic view of the brand and market challenges and develop innovations to address these opportunities. We create impact and faster development.

In this role, your responsibilities will be:

Create and deliver innovations on Pernod Ricard’s strategic international brands to accelerate growth.

• Define business and consumer opportunities with robust business and consumer analysis.

• Ensure projects are aligned with the markets’ needs.

• Manage projects through Stage Gate from Stage 1 to Post-Launch Analysis – including localizing concepts, creating product briefs and working with R&D to develop, test and iterate prototypes, creating packaging designs and overall project leadership of the multi-functional team to deliver projects to successful market launch.

• Balance rigor, data and TLO (test, learn, optimize) with the need for agility and speed to market.

• Assess innovations after launch, share learnings, adjust propositions if needed.

Partner with MarketCos to support the creation of the strongest possible route to market. Drive consumer centricity into the pipeline and ensure business needs are met:

• Leverage agile approaches and research methodologies to create strong and differentiated innovations that delight consumers.

• Ensure learnings are shared with markets, BrandCo’s and other Global Hubs.

• Build strong business case leveraging external and internal data (financials)

• Be the expert of BrandCo ecosystem (production capabilities, legal, competition, technical capabilities…)

Foster strong collaboration and interaction with Brand Companies and key strategic Markets:

• Build strong collaborative relationships with multi-functional team and lead projects to deliver innovations.

• Help to define and optimize the ways of working with BrandCos and Markets to efficiently deliver the Innovation pipeline including collaborating closely with R&D & Supply Chain.

• Support best practice share outs.

Wider contribution at Regional level: Be an active contributor towards the overall Marketing Transformation of Pernod Ricard.

ABOUT YOU

You are an experienced and passionate innovator who thrives with complex projects. You have strong project management and influencing skills and you know how to truly collaborate for superior results. You have strong leadership skills and can collaborate with a multi-functional team to create and deliver innovations (from an end-to-end creation and delivery).

Your qualifications:

• Master Degree in Marketing, Innovation or similar

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a marketing role creating physical product innovations (not just services/business model innovations)

• Experience managing international/multi-market projects to successful delivery. Experience with European markets is a plus

• Fluent in English. Other languages is an advantage

OUR OFFER

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