Senior Manager Strategic Innovation and Growth

Monosol-Llc; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 102,994 - 169,225; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive bonus

Profit sharing

Medical/dental/vision

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

Transit flexible spending

Employee assistance program

Identity theft protection

401k plan

Paid time off

Job summary

MonoSol, LLC in Chicago, IL seeks a Senior Manager Strategic Innovation and Growth to lead market research, front-end innovation, and white-space exploration within the Strategic Innovation and Growth group. This role requires high energy, entrepreneurial thinking, and rigorous analysis to develop new growth opportunities.

You will work closely with R&D to build and validate solutions for unmet needs, lead market development, and deliver objectives as part of the Growth team with high

Qualifications

• 8+ years in marketing, corporate strategy, product development, or business development
• Experience leading innovation projects via stage-gate or similar process
• Proven ability to synthesize insights into a cohesive plan and outcomes
• Experience with consumer/customer testing, in-market experiments and launches
• Strong presentation and communication skills across senior management levels
• Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments
• Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities
• Experience with market research and project management tools
• Independent working style with collaborative team approach

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more opportunity areas from the company’s innovation portfolio
• Gather trends and market insights to identify unmet consumer/customer needs
• Uncover deep insights using ethnography, prototyping, and experimentation
• Apply market sizing and business modeling to determine opportunity
• Collaborate with R&D to develop and validate concepts
• Present results to growth teams and investment board
• Coach and guide team members, potential direct reports
• Travel up to 20% domestically and internationally as needed

Skills

Experience in marketing

Corporate strategy

Product development

Business development

Innovation project management

Market research

Ethnography / consumer insights

Analytics / data-driven

Communication with senior management

Agile innovation methodology

Tools

Market research tools

MS Office / PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Manager Strategic Innovation and Growth

Job Category: Product Development

Requisition Number: SENIO001015

• Full-Time
• Hybrid

Locations

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Chicago Innovation Center | In office CIC Employees
Chicago, IL 60607, USA

• Pay or shift range: $102,994.61 to $169,225.50. The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons. More information listed in job description.

Description

We are currently hiring a Senior Manager Marketing in the MonoSol Strategic Innovation and Growth group. We are responsible for building the new growth in MonoSol – leveraging market research, front-end innovation, and white-space exploration. Therefore, this position will require a creative, independent, and adaptable market researcher and developer who can learn new subjects quickly.

This position will work closely with R&D members to build and validate new solutions for unmet needs in selected focus areas. The position requires high energy, enthusiasm, entrepreneurial thinking, strong analytical capability and an ability to showcase critical skills like agile innovation methodology, continuous learning and a curiosity driven mindset.

The role consists of roughly equal parts trends gathering, market research, consumer research, ideation/project leadership/management and market development, both as an individual achiever and as a part of the Growth team. Successful applicants will be able to competently lead market development for their specific growth areas and deliver project objectives.

This position is an excellent opportunity for an experienced marketing expert to lead projects for future innovations and white space exploration for the growth of this fast-paced company. This position reports to the Director of Strategic Innovation and Growth. The position carries with it a high degree of visibility to the Senior leadership team and requires effective communicate across all levels of the organization, including the General Manager and the investment board of the Company.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible to lead one or multiple opportunity areas selected and prioritized from the company’s’ innovation portfolio.
• Lead the gathering of trends and market insights in selected opportunity areas to help identify and validate the consumer and customer unmet needs utilizing MonoSol’s Front-End innovation process.
• Unearth deep consumer/customer insights using best practices in ethnography, research, prototyping, and experimentation to rapidly test and validate the consumer need, potential solution, and related business models.
• Use contemporary market sizing and business modeling techniques to effectively determine the market opportunity.
• Work closely with the R&D member to develop ideas and validate the concepts through internal and external testing.
• Strong communication skills to interact with consumers and customers to help validate problem areas and value propositions.
• Independently generate testable hypotheses and experimental plans which contribute towards achieving development project goals.
• Confer with fellow team members on development projects, test results, and the development of nonstandard tests.
• Leverage startup/entrepreneurial methodologies to move the opportunity from an idea through to product/market fit, commercialization and potentially into scaling the business.
• Effectively present results to the growth teams and governing investment board members on a frequent basis by pitching and obtaining approval.
• Provide coaching and guidance to other team members potentially leading to direct reports.
• Requires a flexible work style and travel as necessary to perform assignments. Maximum of 20% travel required – domestic and abroad.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ Years of experience marketing, corporate strategy, product development, and/or business development in a corporation or startup
• Preferred experience in leading innovation projects utilizing a stage-gate approach.
• Proven track record of launching an idea internally or externally that required synthesis of disparate points of view/ insights/data and creating a cohesive narrative, plan and outcome.
• Prior experience in working directly with consumers/customers and running experiments, in-market testing, and understanding what is required to launch a solution.
• Proven success in breaking down complex problems into hypotheses, developing clear plans for validation, and using data to refine concepts.
• Superior interpersonal, presentation and communication skills across all levels of senior management, including the executive levels.
• Proven ability to challenge the status quo and drive innovation, totally comfortable operating in ambiguous and unregimented environments.
• Motivated and action-oriented with strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with market research and project management tools
• Capable of working independently with limited supervision.
• Strong team-oriented professional with good interpersonal skills and a positive outlook
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Office, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Effective interpersonal communication skills and demonstrated ability to build and maintain productive work relationships in a team environment.
• Mindsets
• Curious Thinker: continuously question assumptions, explore all angles, challenge the status quo.
• Passionate: driven by solving consumer/customer problems, accepts and takes risks, bold and visionary.
• Ability to operate in the technical, management and commercial arenas and thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial, open-thinking, corporate environment.
• Values the risk – reward relationship and the responsibility of creating value for a growing company.

Additional information

• The compensation range that is described below is the possible base pay compensation that the company believes in good faith that it will pay for this role at the time of posting based on job grade for the position. Individual compensation within this range is based on many factors such as years of experience etc. so the company might pay more or less than the posted range and it is understood that this range may be modified in the future.
• In addition to base compensation, MonoSol provides a yearly incentive compensation bonus, a profit sharing bonus when eligible, a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurances, short term disability, long term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, term life insurance, voluntary term life insurance, transit flexible spending account (if applicable), employee assistance program, identity theft protection, 401k and paid time off (vacation and sick days).

Compensation range: $102,994.61 - $169,225.50

Paid time off amount: 15 days

Closing

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by employees assigned to this position. This is not intended as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. MonoSol, LLC reserves the right to make changes to the job description whenever necessary.

Disclaimer

As part of MonoSol, LLC’s employment process, finalist candidates will be required to complete a physical, drug/alcohol test and background check prior to employment commencing. MonoSol, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status.

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