Innovation Center Manager

Cielo Executive Search is seeking an Innovation Center Manager on behalf of our client, Sealed Air (SEE). SEE designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient.

SEE's people are entrepreneurial innovators and problem solvers committed to bringing unique insights and solutions to the needs of its customers, stakeholders, and society. SEE is creating a community of inventors, problem solvers, and future makers who are passionate about fulfilling its purpose.

SEE generated $5.3 billion in revenue in 2022 and has approximately 16,300 employees who serve customers in 120 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

The manager of the Innovation Center is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction, operations, and revenue driven through the Innovation Center. This role involves fostering a culture of innovation, showcasing SEE’s portfolio of offerings, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring the successful execution of customer engagements. The manager will lead efforts to host customer visits, trainings and other events to highlight SEE’s full breath of product offerings. 

Requirements

• Develop and implement the vision, mission, and strategic plan for the Innovation Center.
• Identify and prioritize key areas for value co-creation aligned with our distribution and end-user partners.
• Establish and maintain a means to capture full revenue realized by the Innovation Center's activities.
• Work closely with internal departments, including R&D, marketing, product development, and operations, to ensure alignment and integration of innovation efforts.
• Partner with UPS to highlight our partnership and drive additional revenue to both organizations.
• Manage the Innovation Center's budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources to support innovation projects.
• Oversee the acquisition and maintenance of tools, technologies, and facilities necessary for innovation activities.
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of the Innovation Center's activities.
• Prepare and present regular reports to senior leadership on the progress, achievements, and challenges of the Innovation Center.
• Stay informed about emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in innovation management and related fields.
• Apply insights from industry trends and research to inform and guide the Innovation Center's strategy and initiatives.

Education

• Bachelor's degree with a concentration in Marketing/Communications is preferred.

Experience

• 3+ years of proven ability to manage customer relationships and accounts; experience dealing with large companies at the senior/executive level preferred.
• 3+ years of consultative selling of services and solutions.

Skills

• Strong business acumen, organization, written and verbal communication skills.
• Dynamic personality and comfortable communicating complex ideas to both technical and non-technical individuals and groups.
• Comfortable working with equipment platforms and agile under pressure.
• Flexible, innovative, and comfortable in setting own priorities and working independently.
• Experience with MS Office Suite, Google, iOS devices and apps.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.