Job Description
Director, Disruptive Innovation
Job Description
Are you ready to reinvent a new way of working? Lead top innovators to create the biggest innovations across Kraft Heinz? Create new capabilities that reimagine how we innovate? As a leader of Disruptive Innovation, you will be a part of building both what we bring to market & how we do it that will be game changers.
Sitting in the Global Growth Office, this Director role reports to the Vice President of Global Innovation and directs a team of innovators pioneering new agile innovation methodologies to bring consumer driven innovation to market. The Director will create and drive the strategies for teams that bring new products, new business models or new channels to life by developing and implementing agile in-market experiments in pursuit of scaling the launch.
This position requires an innovation leader that can develop teams building the future of food. This approach to disruptive innovation is new within the growth organization so the individual needs to be flexible, have a growth mindset, and be comfortable with ambiguity.
Responsibilities
- Leading a portfolio of dedicated Agile Pod teams (5 person cross-functional team focused on launching new innovation)
- Build the strategic vision and pipeline approach for new products, models and channels for top innovation spaces
- Own and design a fit-to-win capability to build out and rethink innovation at Kraft Heinz
- Coach teams to develop and implement experiments to Test, Learn and Iterate solutions with consumers and retailers
- Champion for disruptive thinking and agile approaches across KHC
- Work across a diverse set of collaborators to support the success of your portfolio and team of innovators
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred
- 8+ years of proven experience in marketing or innovation
- Consumer centric self-starter & growth mindset - fail fast, learn faster
- Deep functional innovation expertise
- Prior or relevant experience working in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) a plus
- Experience building capabilities and implementing new ways of thinking
- Experience in both employee management & cross-functional team management; self confident individual who can lead a team and work collaboratively
- Strong personal motivation in fast-paced, often ambiguous environment, with a bias for action
- Demonstrated ability to influence teams and experience managing multiple partners
- Strong "big picture" perspective, while also delivering the innovation initiative at hand
- Outstanding verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
- Creative problem solver, strategic thinker, and analytical skills
- Ability to simplify and make decisions quickly to drive constant forward progress
Location(s)
Amsterdam, Chicago/Aon Center
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an enterprise where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams are in relentless pursuit to solve tangible problems for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve the problem on hand. In-turn, you can look forward to high-impact challenges, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial small teams, and a unique opportunity to create and build something bold, awesome, and impactful – all while honoring our 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic and emerging brands!
Why Work With Us
Our ambition is to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. You’ll invent the next wave of augmented intelligence products where software & humans work side-by-side to rethink every aspect of our company. You’ll make an imprint & leave your legacy on every part of our business.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We also believe providing a more flexible and agile model is essential in today’s workplace. A majority of our office-based employees will be able to work remotely for up to two days each week.
