R&D Front end innovation manager

Marketing Amsterdam Full-time Netherlands

Job Description

To start with, the position of Front End Innovation Manager (Marketing) sits in the R&D Front End Innovation team. We are a cross-functional capability with Marketing, R&D and Consumer Insights, driven by unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea to create a better future. An incredibly diverse team that helps each other learn, grow and develop. Just how we like it!

As a Front End Innovation Manager (Marketing) you will be asked to lead the upstream part of value creation for impactful innovations that will shape the future of coffee and tea.

For this, we don’t just need you to be a knowledgeable professional but also strongly rely on your interpersonal skills as well as your drive for success. Know that you’ll have a crucial role in creating and protecting the impact we look for in our value chain. With this said, we like you to take responsibility over the following tasks:

• Lead the full Front End Innovation cycle for identified strategic Innovation challenges to handover to the teams that will execute it and bring it to market
• Identify meaningful consumer insights and articulate ideas into fully fledged concepts
• Manages senior stakeholders in key innovation forums and Marketing community Manage high level of complexity of Innovation, encompassing multiple categories, brands, markets, technologies and functions
• Guides agency partners on the whole value creation stream
• This role will involve working from both our Amsterdam and Utrecht offices.

Qualifications

We are looking for a passionate and agile innovator with a strong focus to results. Someone who is not afraid to try and are ok to fall, learn from it and keep trying until they get it right. Someone that holds themselves accountable and doesn’t shy away from responsibility. Given the nature of the role we feel it's important for you to have a certain level of experience in marketing and with product innovation as well as a solid understanding of your own added value. We thrive in diverse teams and look for people that appreciate that as much as we do. We can give you a list of “must haves,” however that’s not how we view your candidacy. We do, of course, take into consideration how much experience you have with innovation and marketing but ultimately, we look at the bigger picture. But to give you a bit of guidance as to what we feel is needed in this role, we’ll share our “nice to have” list with you:

• At least 10 years of Marketing experience in FMCG, with experience in Innovation and Brand
• A curious growth mindset that enjoys to explore, discover and (re)create
• Experience in idea development and concept writing
• Problem solving attitude, with resilience to keep trying until you get it right
• Political agility to manage with confidence above and across
• Spoken and written English at professional proficiency level

If you re you passionate about Innovation and the idea of shaping something new to improve consumer lives excites you, then this job posting may be for you!

Additional Information

We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale. Our ambition is simple – JDE Peet's: unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea.

We bring action to our intentions, following through on what was agreed, always pushing things forward. We offer our people a range of learning and development programmes to support their personal growth. We’ve worked hard to build an open, collaborative environment where you can approach anyone and be heard.

At JDE Peet's, we believe it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We also believe that a diverse and inclusive culture enables us to serve every coffee and tea lover in the best possible way. No matter who you are, where you come from, how you live your life, or how you enjoy your coffee or tea, you can fulfil your ambitions and contribute to our success.

When you grow, we grow, and coffee & tea grows.

It’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we’ve made it our mission to find out . Our people have been raising the bar since day one, thinking fast and acting even faster to make an impact that’s felt around the world. JDE is the home to some of the most well-known coffee brands in the world. To date, our coffee and tea portfolio is available in over 100 countries and includes iconic household names such as Jacobs, Peet’s, Tassimo, Moccona, Senseo, L’OR, Douwe Egberts, TiOra, Super, Kenco, Pilao and Gevalia. We’ve built our business on the belief that everyone deserves the coffee or tea they love – no matter who you are, where you live or how you take it.

At JDE Peet’s we are inspired by our belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We are driven by the vision that everyone deserves the coffee or tea they love.