Sr Manager Innovation

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Oakbrook Terrace, IL
7+ Years Experience
Food • Retail • Agriculture • Manufacturing
At McCain Foods we know the importance that food plays in people's lives.
The Role
The Senior Manager of Innovation is responsible for creating and executing a strategic innovation roadmap, collaborating with the Brand Team to identify opportunities and develop product platforms. This role involves managing P&L performance, leading cross-functional teams, and improving innovation processes to consistently deliver market-ready products that meet financial expectations.
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Position Title: Sr Manager Innovation
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace
Requisition ID: 32850
McCain knows the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. That is why our purpose is celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food. We do this by succeeding together with our teams, business and community partners around the world - because we know when we work and grow together, we succeed together. Be a part of our family.
McCain Foods is seeking a Senior Brand Manager, Innovation to join our growing team!
Reporting to the Director, Marketing Innovation, the position of Senior Brand Manager is responsible for shaping & delivering a strategic innovation roadmap.
Responsibilities include: • Primary liaison with Brand Team to define longer term 'where to play' spaces grounded in foresight analysis and founded in a holistic strategic rationale• Develop scale product platforms rooted in Demand Space unmet needs, with an ownable right to win and with a rich pipeline of ideas• Build a funnel with sufficiency & quality of ideas that yields a steady pace of innovation news to deliver in-market financial expectations• Partner with senior cross functional leaders to drive continuous improvement of the innovation process and ways of working to improve our success rate
What will make you successful in this role: • Minimum 7 years of brand management experience with a background in consumer products goods• Ownership of brand or pipeline strategy for a distinct business segment• Knowledge and Experience with foundational consumer landscapes• Comfortable managing a complex P&L• Successfully influence without authority of high profile stakeholders• Leadership of cross functional teams and projects with ambiguity and complexity• Adept with Stage-Gate process to drive decision-making with gatekeepers• Excellent written and oral communication skills (including strong presentation skills), analytical ability, independent decision making and business vision• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)• Passion for, and understanding of, food industry preferred
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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Marketing
Division: NA Potato
Department: Innovation Potato
Location(s) : US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.

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Year Founded: 1957

What We Do

The power it has to uplift and bring people, Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers.

We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.

Why Work With Us

We are working to bring digital tools and data into our processes to drive efficiency, automation and data-driven insights. From connecting our business, enabling our supply chain, supporting our customers, to reinventing agriculture. So if you are a tech expert looking to join a company transforming technology, think of McCain.

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