Global Innovation Manager - Maternity Cover

Job Description

Who are we?

Do you want to be at the forefront of driving healthy hair? At Tangle Teezer healthy hair has been our mane goal since 2007. No matter your hair type – straight, curly, fine, fragile, or coily – our range of brushes leave you with healthier-looking hair and less breakage. With tools for every stroke of your routine, they’re your daily dose of confidence. So, you can take on whatever tangles life throws your way. We changed the market with our first born ‘The Original’ and with innovation at our heart, we are looking for a Global Innovation Manager to help fuel our fast expansion and cover a great maternity leave role.

The Role

This role reports to the Head of Innovation, with one direct report, and sits within the wider Innovation team. You will create and deliver exciting innovation launches to drive our global portfolio as part of the 3-year innovation pipeline. Excitingly in this role, you will also be overseeing our continual trend-led innovation pipeline, with one direct report to drive fashion trends and keep the brand relevant.

You will bring your deep understanding of stage gate innovation, consumer insights, and category and shopper trends, to build strong concepts and work alongside sales and marketing to bring commercially sound and impactful products into retail spaces, with excellence.

You will write compelling artwork briefs and coordinate with legal and regulatory. Working with our industrial design agency you will iterate prototypes and lead market research to ensure our quality and excellence.

Partnering and being supported by operations, demand planning, and project management you get to focus on creating award-winning products.

You will be adept at building business cases, presenting at innovation boards, and winning hearts and minds across the business

About You

You will be a branded consumer goods marketing trained professional, ideally experienced in personal care or haircare would be a plus and with a passion for innovation.

In this role you’ll get to:

• Have strategic ownership of multiple key projects and manage through-the-gate processes to develop the Tangle Teezer product and innovation pipeline.
• Be a category and consumer expert – understand & communicate consumer needs, competitors, benefits, critical features, emerging trends, and commercial expectations.
• Build and present business case feasibility – formulate & propose category size, unit sales, and revenue opportunity, based on retailer and distributor financial expectations.
• Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to bring your product to life across product designers and consumer research agencies
• Translate insight into artwork briefs and sell in propositions to land in the market with excellence
• Drive & influence - Day-to-day project management and active problem solving to ensure delivery against timings with influencing at all levels to communicate the vision
• You will manage and coach 1 direct report, while playing a key role in the wider team

What we are looking for in you:

• Extensive & proven experience and track record. A minimum of 4/5 years in a consumer goods business/ FMCG, with expertise in personal care, beauty, or hair, is highly desirable.
• Experience in global markets (specifically the US) is beneficial
• Have experience in managing multiple projects and confidence in leading cross-functional teams with strong communication and collaborative skills
• Strong consumer & commercial understanding: consumer insights, marketing, commercial, and P&L / financial structure.
• You are a problem-solver with great collaboration skills, proactively raising and jointly solving issues
• Demonstrated experience influencing senior teams as to your strategic vision
• Experience in team management

The good Stuff:

For all your hard work and dedication, we have fantastic rewards for you –

• A flexible workplace with core hours from 10 am to 4 pm
• Salary circa £55k, dependent on experience
• Performance-related bonus of 10% based on annual salary
• 25 days holiday with the option to buy more holiday days
• Enhanced Family Policies
• Period & Menopause Policies
• Enhanced Pension scheme
• Life Assurance 4 x salary
• Medical Insurance with Axa
• Medical cash plan
• Enjoy a meeting-free Friday with a 4.00 pm finish to kickstart your weekend.