Assistant Vice President - Brand Management & Innovation - Food & Beverages Company

- Lead the innovation agenda for the company by working closely with your reporting team, cross-functional partners and external partners to develop a robust two-year innovation pipeline in line with consumer and business needs. This will include

- Build the marketing calendar in close partnership with the core brand revenue team to cover for Key campaign calendar & Innovation launch management. Use marketing team and external agency partners to develop full 360-degree campaign including

- Lead the charge on driving innovation rigor through tools like

- Lead the association with key beverage partner

- Ensure the proper management of innovation team from both food & beverages

- Experience in forging great working relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders including agency partners and support functions like operations and supply chain.

- Worked with leading consumer-oriented brands and categories and been an integral part of major campaigns and product launches. Strong brand management / Strategy & Innovation experience is BOTH needed.

- MBA from top institutes with at least 11-15 yrs invested in building a category, within a consumer-oriented organization