Project Manager, Global Innovation Team

About the role

The Global Innovation team based in New York is responsible for many exciting brands. The spirit industry is complex and constantly evolving. It's a fun and challenging environment with plenty of opportunity to make a mark.

Responsibilities

• Help bring to life the Innovation team vision with both a local focus to coordinate and assist with governance on the US pipeline and global partnership to create innovation.
• Create and manage Project Plans & KPIs according to the business needs/strategy of key brands.
• Provide project management support to the team, by flexing to support on specific projects within the Innovation team - these projects could be design, development, a "TLO" (test, learn, optimize in market), or working on detailed R+D/operations efforts.
• Provide End-to-End Project Management of specific innovation launches from ideation to commercialization.
• Relentlessly drive for action by collaborating with local and Global Brand Companies, CORBY, NBV, key cross functional partners and other Innovation team partners where relevant, to ensure projects are on-time, on budget.
• Creatively problem solve for challenges along critical path that impact timing or budget; understand critical path impacts and solve for challenges along the way - while taking into account budget, timing or consumer/proposition ramifications
• Instill Consumer Centricity as a best practice by integrating action standards into the innovation stage gate and tracking process as part of project management
• Proactively contribute to the global Pernod Ricard Innovation community to build and share learnings with the International Innovation teams, BrandCos and Global HQ teams.
• Actively coordinate with Local Brand Marketing Teams, Corby (Canada), US Whiskies and BrandCos: to gain alignment on innovation platforms, pipeline, agenda for the region, sign-off on local brands' innovation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Project Management qualifications essential (Six Sigma, Scrum Master, PMI, or equivalent)
• Work experience
• Proven Innovation Experience