Role Responsibilities:

• Lead commercial partnership for the innovation pipeline, aligning with Sales, RTC, and business priorities
• Mobilize senior sales and cross-functional leaders to secure focus, investment, and resources for high-impact innovation delivery.
•  Oversee end-to-end execution, integrating launches into the commercial calendar and strategic plan.
• Partner with senior leadership to evolve the Sales function for innovation-led growth
•  Shape and champion RTC models that unlock innovation scale and market reach
• Define enterprise-wide innovation critical metrics and embed thorough execution standards into sales performance
• Redesign sales incentives to reward innovation delivery and drive accountability
• Act as the key commercial bridge across innovation, marketing, and sales for strategic alignment
• Embed commercial insights into launch planning to ensure relevance, differentiation, and performance
• Set and supervise critical launch benchmarks, ensuring robust customer propositions and sell-in tools
• Own the innovation performance management framework coordinated within global reporting
• Lead executive-level performance reviews and drive data-driven interventions
• Influence senior sales leadership to prioritize corrective actions for consistent delivery
• Champion continuous commercial monitoring, evaluation, and cross-market learning
• Provide strategic oversight at governance breakthroughs to ensure go-to-market readiness and commercial viability

Experience / skills required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, or related field
• 5–7 years demonstrated ability in FMCG/fast paced commercial environment
• Proven experience in innovations or shopper marketing
• Experience handling budgets and delivering business results
• Critical thinking and planning
• Financial competence and budget management
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Consumer insight development
• Project and stakeholder management
• Creativity and innovation attitude