Do you want to shape the future of Home Care? We're looking for an amazing addition to our growing Innovation (physical products) team. Grove’s Owned Brands portfolio is the driving force behind the company’s exponential growth. We create innovative, consumer-centric, sustainable Home and Personal Care brands & products that set the standard in terms of efficacy, sustainability and design. 

As the Innovation Manager - Home Care, you will work on our best-selling, flagship brand, Grove Co., in collaboration with the Director of Product Innovation and the Owned Brands multifunctional team. Your vision will help make sustainable living the natural choice for homes across America. You’ll work with a network of like-minded manufacturers and across the Grove organization to bring innovative, leading edge new products and to build the future of a brand that stands apart in the Home Care category.

If you have demonstrated success in building brands and products from the ground up in the CPG space, this job is for you!

YOUR IMPACT

• Serve as the product expert for Grove Co. mid & long term innovation roadmap Conduct product research, competitive analysis and stay on top of macro and category trends. Stay at the forefront of sustainability trends and lead advancements in categories you own. Take on new products and categories as relevant, diving deep to develop new expertise quickly.
• Own project management: Create and own all project timelines. Run weekly timeline meetings for your projects and constantly collaborate with cross-functional partners – creative, packaging, inventory, R&D - to ensure projects are delivered on time, in full.
• Provide sourcing support: Tap into existing product, packaging and raw material vendor network to uncover innovation capabilities. Discover and vet new vendors to see if they meet project requirements and Grove sustainability and quality standards.
• Manage vendor relationships: Own day to day communications with vendors and hold them accountable to timelines and deliverables. Build strong relationships to ensure that vendors deliver the highest level of service and support to Grove. Work with legal to execute supply agreements with all vendors.
• Conduct business analysis: Support making the business case for new products and categories. Track performance of products and categories to inform roadmap.
• Support brand strategy and marketing plan execution with a focus on results. Identify and understand core customers for your own projects. In collaboration with the team ensuring the mix meets the Consumer, performance & sustainability requirements for the brand. 
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee of this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

ABOUT YOU

• You have 7+ years of professional experience, with 5+ of those years working firsthand crafting brands & innovation for Home & Personal Care
• You are passionate about leaving a positive impact in the world
• You have in-depth knowledge of the product innovation process: R&D, sampling, costing, testing, pre-production, TOP, etc. In- depth experience working with R&D is a plus
• Highly organized; able to multi-task and communicate with numerous touch points including cross functional partners in R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, Creative, Retail, Product Marketing
• You are a project management and timeline master
• You are a product guru. You understand how things are made, how to rigorously test them and how to improve their performance.
• You are comfortable working in ambiguous spaces and figuring out how to move forward when there isn’t an existing path
• You are obsessed with the consumer 
• You have strong analytical skills
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills 
• You are based in or excited to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area

BENEFITS

• Core Benefits: Stock options, Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax and Roth 401k options, Short term and Long Term Disability and Life Insurance, Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Perks: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Perkspot discount platform, Quarterly peer recognition awards, Class Pass discount, Free VIP Membership + 25% off every Grove order
• Work/Life: Internet reimbursement, Flexible Paid Time Off, 16 week Paid Parental Leave + discounts on fertility services

ABOUT GROVE COLLABORATIVE:

Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative creates innovative natural products and offers a curated selection of healthy home essentials like cleaning supplies and personal care products. With a flexible, monthly delivery model and a personal Grove Guide assigned to each customer, Grove’s platform makes it easy for people to switch to healthier, more sustainable routines. Every item Grove offers, both from their flagship Grove Collaborative brand and from exceptional third party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for sustainability, efficacy and supply chain practices. On a mission to move Beyond Plastic, Grove is the first and only plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to becoming 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, please visit www.grove.co/plastic.

Let’s do this

We're building a diverse and inclusive work environment where we learn from each other. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work. Come join the community at Grove. It's a heck of a lot of fun, and we'd love to tell you more about it.

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.