Director of Innovation
About the role
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs. Our Sustainability Commitment The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Position Summary: The Director of Innovation leads new product development and innovation programs supporting Novolex's Distribution, International Industrial, and Beverage businesses. This role translates customer needs, market insights, technology opportunities, and business priorities into a focused innovation pipeline and drives programs from concept through commercialization. The position is designed for a high-impact innovation leader with the capability and potential to progress into a Senior Director role with broader portfolio, organizational, and strategic leadership responsibility.
- Lead the innovation and new product development portfolio across assigned business units, aligning priorities with growth strategies, customer needs, and commercial opportunities.
- Own complex NPD programs from opportunity identification and business case through development, validation, scale-up, launch, and post-launch review.
- Drive disciplined project and program management, including scope, milestones, resources, risks, financial targets, and executive-level portfolio reporting.
- Partner across Product Management, Sales, R&D, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Procurement,