Innovation Commercialization Lead

Suntory Global Spirits; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 135.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Suntory Global Spirits is seeking a Sr. Manager, Innovation Commercialization, to lead market introduction of new innovations in FBS/RTD.

The role can be based in NYC or Chicago and reports to the Innovation team, driving the commercialization engine across Seed to Sip programs. The role requires 3–5 years in innovation commercialization plus 3–5 years in brand or sales strategy, with strong analytics, cross-functional leadership, and excellent communication.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 3-5yr innovation commercialization + 3-5yr brand, commercial strategy, category management, sales strategy, or trade marketing (CPG /Spirits preferred)
• Strong cross-functional leadership and influence without authority; comfortable driving governance forums.
• Strong analytical skills (opportunity sizing, scenario modeling, performance diagnosis)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills; able to produce concise decision materials and sales ready narratives
• Excellent project management; able to develop and drive processes

Responsabilidades

• Turn innovation strategy into clear, commercially executable launch plans.
• Size the commercial opportunity. Partner with marketing, insights and category development team to establish channel-specific targets, including distribution and velocity assumptions.
• Drive launch planning & readiness. Build executive recommendations and translate approved innovation pipeline into actionable launch plans, ensuring priority launches have all required tools for sell-in and execution.
• Track launch performance. Establish KPIs and scorecards to measure innovation performance against agreed commercial goals and identify gaps and opportunities early.
• Drive post-launch action. Integrate innovation performance reviews into performance cycle and partner with cross-functional teams to address opportunities and course-correct where needed.
• Build learning into future launches. Translate performance and customer learnings into improved benchmarks, assumptions, tiering and execution standards.
• Own and evolve the commercialization playbook. Establish clear standards, tools, inputs, decision points and ways of working from approval through post-launch.
• Simplify & automate. Remove unnecessary complexity and automate recurring inputs, analysis, reporting and outputs to improve speed and consistency.
• Integrate commercialization milestones across Seed to Sip, IFT & KPI goal setting, Performance Cycle.
• Launch readiness checklist and tracker
• Post-launch readouts & action plans
• Launch learning summaries & updated benchmarks
• Automated commercialization inputs, outputs & reporting
• Integrated commercialization milestones across Seed to Sip, IFT & KPI goal setting, Performance Cycle.

Conocimientos

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical skills

Communication & influence

Project management

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field

Descripción del empleo

Suntory Global Spirits is seeking a Sr. Manager, Innovation Commercialization, to lead market introduction of new innovations in FBS/RTD.

The role can be based in NYC or Chicago and reports to the Innovation team, driving the commercialization engine across Seed to Sip programs. The role requires 3–5 years in innovation commercialization plus 3–5 years in brand or sales strategy, with strong analytics, cross-functional leadership, and excellent communication.