Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.

Location: Hybrid - 2-3 days a week in our Hackensack, NJ office with shuttle support provided for NYC-Based employees

Responsibilities

Report to the Director of Innovation, collaborating with other innovation leaders to develop, manage, and deliver ways-in for key strategic growth spaces such as cream cheese and hard cheese.

Core responsibilities include:

• Conduct analysis and secondary research to identify opportunity areas, unsolved consumer tensions, competitive challenges, and macroeconomic shifts that could unleash business growth.

• Bring expertise in identifying emerging cultural trends and translating them into actionable strategies to drive innovation and competitive advantage

• Identify, align, and execute the learning agenda to unpack key opportunity areas across the 3 lenses.

• Drive 'make to learn' (prototyping) and 'do over say' evidence in every research stage to ensure solutions are vetted in a suitable environment.

• Succinctly help document and report all findings, pivots, opportunities, and implications to weekly leadership forums and executive key presentations.

• Act as an ambassador for transforming the ways we think about our brand, our business model(s), and our ways of learning, and eventually how Violife / Upfield can innovate differently.

• Champion a future-forward mindset, acting as an Innovation role model within the larger Innovation / Marketing teams and inspiring Violife with the latest information on new trends in plant-based food, cheese & beyond.

So, what does it take to be successful in this role? 

• Bachelor's degree or international equivalent

• Minimum of 8 years within CPG or innovation agency/consultancy-type environment

• Experience in foods – dairy (e.g., milk, creamer, cheese, etc.) and plant-based a plus
• Self-starter with a demonstrated comfort with extreme uncertainty – background of identifying breakthrough opportunities through insights and driving through to execution
• Balance between strategic thinking and execution knowhow – can define a clear strategy based on insights & analytics, and bring it to life via hands-on execution
• Excellent communicator with strong presentation & influencing skills
• Engaging leader who inspires others, always pushing the boundaries of thinking
• Passion for Innovation and the consumer, always looking for 'what's next'

What's next

If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now!

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We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles. 

Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.

No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.

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