Senior Product Development Lead – Global Menu & Innovation

Joe & The Juice; København; Hybrid; DKK 700,000 - 950,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid pension plan

Health insurance

Parental leave

Extra vacation

Job summary

JOE & THE JUICE is seeking a Senior Product Development Associate to lead end-to-end development of new and improved products across categories, based at our Global HQ in Copenhagen. You’ll drive NPD/EPD projects from ideation to in-store launch within the Menu & Innovation team.

You will collaborate with Brand, Marketing, Operations, Technical, Franchise and Supply Chain to ensure quality, timings, and commercial goals, while keeping juicer ease at the heart of every decision.

Qualifications

• Min. 4 years' experience in a corporate product development role.
• Hands-on coffee development and product ownership experience.
• Familiarity with stage-gate or gate approval governance is a plus.
• Fluent in English - other languages are a bonus!

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve JOE's NPD and EPD pipeline, leading projects from concept through to launch against timings, budgets and briefs.
• Lead projects from ideation through internal approval, following the internal 'Joe' gate approval process and GreenLight governance.
• Translate concepts into scalable recipes for high-volume execution, developed within brand, quality and operational guardrails, keeping juicer ease at the heart.
• Lead all product testing and trials ahead of launch, including scale-up, product and commercial trials, across appropriate markets worldwide, for your projects.
• Deliver and own a structured calendar of seasonal LTOs and rotating products, aligned with portfolio strategy and commercial priorities.
• Own the innovation pipeline for assigned categories, with full project management ownership of cross-functional teams through the stage-gate process from brief to in-store launch.
• Partner with Operations, Marketing, Supply Chain, Training, Franchise and Compliance to coordinate critical paths and ensure launch readiness.
• Drive communication of product strategy and innovation recommendations to senior leadership, and act as the trend and competitor go-to expert for assigned categories.

Skills

Product development

Coffee development

Gate governance

Stakeholder management

Project management

English fluency

Job description

JOE & THE JUICE is seeking a Senior Product Development Associate to lead end-to-end development of new and improved products across categories, based at our Global HQ in Copenhagen. You’ll drive NPD/EPD projects from ideation to in-store launch within the Menu & Innovation team.

You will collaborate with Brand, Marketing, Operations, Technical, Franchise and Supply Chain to ensure quality, timings, and commercial goals, while keeping juicer ease at the heart of every decision.