Manager, Innovation Strategy

Position Summary

The Manager, Innovation Strategy is a key member of the Nature Made innovation team, supporting the upstream innovation agenda by translating strategic growth priorities, consumer and market insights, and scientific advancements into a structured, multi-year innovation pipeline. Reporting to the Director of Innovation Strategy & Process, this role supports planning, prioritization, and management of the upstream innovation portfolio. The Manager also contributes to continuous improvement of the innovation process, including new capabilities that improve speed and decision-making.

Critical Contributions

• Upstream Innovation roadmap: Translate opportunity areas into structured multi-year pipeline workstreams—spanning research projects and claims—by partnering with Science, Marketing, and Insights to define clear initiatives, timelines, deliverables, and governance.
• Portfolio Management: Develop templates, and operating mechanisms that support effective prioritization and alignment of upstream innovation portfolio
• Innovation Process: manages continuous improvement of the core innovation process—focusing on agility, consumer centricity, and AI adoption—manages scoring frameworks and ideation
• Cross-functional leadership: Lead and motivate cross-functional project teams, and act as liaison between Marketing, Nutrition Science, R&D, Regulatory, Legal, and Finance to ensure a fit for purpose innovation process and future pipeline.
• Market analysis and insights: Partner with insights teams to ensure the innovation strategy is informed by consumer needs, market data, and competitive analysis.
• White space business case development: provide support to build compelling holistic value propositions for new segments, new business models or partnerships, including financial analysis, positioning, and go-to-market considerations.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate brings a growth mindset, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, synthesize insights into actionable opportunities, and balance long-term innovation with near-term business priorities. Effective communication skills are paramount with comfort working in a high-performance, fast-paced team with people of diverse backgrounds.

Key Qualifications

• Proven experience in product innovation within the CPG or wellness industry, with a track record of creating successful innovation strategies and product launches.
• Experience in upstream innovation preferred, ability to navigate white space and ambiguity with demonstrated success in shaping strategies for new demand spaces is required
• Expertise in managing innovation processes, with experience applying agile methodologies
• Scientific aptitude with proven experience translating complex scientific concepts into compelling consumer-facing ideas
• Demonstrated portfolio thinking: Understands how initiatives connect to broader business goals and priorities accordingly
• Strong analytical skills with experience leveraging consumer insights and market data to develop actionable product opportunities.
• Strong financial acumen for building and presenting robust business cases for new products.
• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex strategic concepts.
• Managerial experience preferred

Requirements

• Requires a four-year college or university degree or its equivalent. An MBA is preferred.
• Requires a minimum of 4 years' experience post-MBA or 7 years post college, with a minimum of 2 years in innovation-related roles
• Experience working in the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) industry is required, with a preference for Health & Wellness, Vitamin and Supplements, or OTC Pharmaceutical industry

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to building and maintaining a disciplined, insight-driven upstream innovation pipeline that enables Nature Made to identify future growth opportunities, prioritize investment decisions, and deliver sustained long-term growth.

What We Offer

Here, career paths aren't predefined, and bureaucratic limitations don't exist -- you have the opportunity to grow, learn from industry pioneers, and develop the way you want to. Pharmavite is investing more in the development of our team -- to help us deliver on our purpose and help you achieve your career aspirations. Our environment is geared to fuel curiosity, encourage experimentation, and generate learning as this is the way we develop ourselves and our organization.

Pay

National Target Base Pay Range: $100,000.00 - $166,000.00. The salary range for this position is based on national standards. For candidates in California and New York metro the Target Base Pay Range is $110,000 - $184,000, to reflect the cost of living and market conditions in those areas. Actual compensation will take into account a wide range of factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, education, experience, qualifications and job-related skills. It is not typical for an individual to be hired above the midpoint of the range for their role and compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case.

Benefits

Pharmavite is committed to meeting the needs of our employees and their families with a Total Rewards package that's as comprehensive as the vitamins and supplements we deliver to consumers. With competitive compensation programs and standout benefits, we provide employees with optimal health and well-being -- as well as peace of mind. These rewards -- plus our new recognition program -- ensure employees feel supported both at work and home. Our total rewards package for this position may also include an annual performance bonus, Medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K match, and other wellness benefits.