Commercial Innovation Manager - Bloom Beverage

Nutrabolt; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Mental wellness programs

401K matching

Lifestyle Spending Account

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

Nutrabolt is seeking a Commercial Innovation Manager to join our Commercial Strategy team, supporting the Bloom beverage portfolio across formats and channels. This high-visibility role sits at the intersection of innovation, commercial strategy, brand, and operations.

You will manage the innovation calendar, build forecasts, align with sales, brand, and supply chain, and ensure new products enter the market with solid commercial plans.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years in CPG required (minimum 2 years at manager level).
• Experience interpreting syndicated sales data (IRI, Nielsen, Spins).
• Proven ability to translate insights into business cases and drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, nimble environment with multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide the commercial innovation recommendations across Bloom energy and pop formats.
• Manage the beverage innovation calendar, timelines, briefs and channel nuances; input size of prize and ramp expectations.
• Be the primary cross-functional contact for milestones with brand, ops, sales, and finance; represent Bloom at gate reviews.
• Understand and contribute to P&Ls for beverage launches; support GTM timing for new SKUs.
• Collaborate with brand, insights, R&D, supply chain and demand planning to align on rollouts.
• Support portfolio assortment decisions at total and channel levels for retailer sell-in.

Skills

CPG experience

Beverage industry

Stage Gate process

Data interpretation (IRI/Nielsen/Spins

Cross-functional leadership

Forecasting

GTM planning

Job description

Who We Are:

Nutrabolt is a fast-growing, global active health and wellness company with a portfolio of market leading performance-oriented brands that energize and fuel active lifestyles. The company’s disruptive and innovative products compete in the Functional Beverage and Active Nutrition segments, under three consumer-loved brands: C4® (one of the fastest-growing energy drink brands in the United States and the #1 selling global pre-workout brand), XTEND® (the #1 post-workout recovery brand in the United States), and Cellucor® (an award-winning sports nutrition brand created in 2002).

Since its founding 20 years ago, Nutrabolt has set out to meet the discerning needs of performance athletes and fitness enthusiasts, while appealing beyond this core group to include consumers around the globe who are making healthy, active living a daily priority.

As a Certified Great Place to Work, Top Workplaces USA honoree, Fortune Best Workplace in Texas, and more – Nutrabolt cares deeply about our people, planet, and the communities we serve. Here, our teammates are united by our mission, and take ownership in creating a healthy workplace environment that promotes strong bodies, clear minds, and a culture of respect and belonging for all.

Who You Are:

We are looking for a Commercial Innovation Manager to join our Commercial Strategy team, supporting the Bloom beverage business (Bloom Sparkling Energy, Bloom Pop, new platforms). This is a high-visibility role at the intersection of innovation, commercial strategy, brand, operations and cross-functional execution.

You will support the day-to-day management & execution of Bloom’s beverage innovation & renovation calendar — tracking timelines, coordinating across teams, building forecasts, and helping ensure that every new product enters the market with the right commercial strategy behind it. You are organized, analytical, and energized by the pace of a fast-growing brand.

What You’re Good At:

• Lead and guide team on commercial innovation recommendations, including format and pack sizesacross Energy and Pop. (Recommendations based on strong competitive, category and channel insights)

• Support beverage commercial innovationcalendar: leading format and pack recommendations, managing commercial briefs, owning timelines and channel nuances. Brief inputs include size of prize, ramp up expectations, mix recommendations.

• Serve as key point of contact for commercial innovation milestones and deliverables, working with brand, ops, sales and other key stakeholders. Represent Bloom at stage gate and integration meetings.

• Understand and collaborate on P&Ls for beverage commercial launches

• Partner with key cross functionals: brand, insights, R&D, supply chain, finance

• Support in volume forecasting for NPD, partnering with demand planning team

• Support in GTM plan and timing for all innovation launches

• Support the development of the total customer-facing package for line reviews, joint business planning (JBP), and retailer sell-in

• Support portfolio assortment decisions at both the total and channel level — understanding which SKUs, pack sizes, and formats are right for each retailer and occasion

What You Contribute:

• 4-5 years in CPG required (minimum 2 years at manager level), beverage experience preferred

• Experience with sales partners and operational teams

• Stage Gate Experience a plus

• Analytical and proficient with interpreting syndicated data for business performance (such as IRI, Neilsen, Spins)

• Ability to translate analytical learning to insights and business case

• Proven experience in managing commercial aspects of innovation working with cross functional teams

• Comfortable with a very fast-paced and nimble environment

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously

Why Nutrabolt?

Wellness Benefits

Nutrabolt cares about our teammates’ physical, mental, and financial wellness by providing benefits like: competitive health insurance, life insurance, mental wellness programs, 401K matching, and a Lifestyle Spending Account.

Lifestyle Perks

We offer unlimited vacation paid time off and volunteer time off. You’ll get discounts on C4 Energy, Cellucor, and XTEND products, too!

Family Support

We want you to reach your full potential at work by taking care of all loved ones at home. We provide paid parental leave, in addition to reimbursement for expenses related to childcare, fertility treatments, legal fees, and more through our Lifestyle Spending Account.

Nutrabolt is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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