UK Commercialisation Manager at Tropicana Brands Group

At #TropicanaBrandsGroup we are passionate about nourishing & delighting our consumers, one sip at a time.

Working at Tropicana is more than a job, it's an opportunity to build a meaningful career. It means a chance to help shape the future of some of the world's best-known brands. To grow personally and professionally. To be part of a progressive, independent company that cares about its people, is proud of its products and aspires to do good for the planet and the communities we serve.

At Tropicana Brands Group, you will:

• Be part of a diverse and creative team that is continuously reimagining our iconic juice brands to offer the highest quality products that exceed consumers' desires.
• Find roles that have the potential to stretch and expand and allow for greater influence and impact across the organization.
• Drive business results through collaboration, diverse perspectives and the freedom to think boldly.
• Be able to move decisively with constant, forward momentum.

Our amazing commercialisation Team is now looking for a UK Commercialisation Manager! 

Your Next Pour: The Opportunity & principle Accountabilities:   

• Supporting the Innovation hopper and pipeline; understanding the value, gaps, risks, resources and trade-offs required to deliver our targets and ensure we make the right innovation portfolio choices.
• Leading the Stage Gate process and Innovation governance forums.
• Providing world-class Commercial project management expertise, delivering solutions that enable rapid speed-to-market and flawless execution.
• Driving continuous improvement across all innovation governance and Commercialisation KPIs.
• Responsible for leading innovation & commercial change projects (renovation, productivity, artwork, brand activations, pack price etc) from concept to launch including assessing & communicating initial feasibility – focus is on key initiatives for Tropicana, Naked & Copella brands, including packaging implementation to meet EU/UK Directives.
• Leadership of cross functional project teams to deliver projects to agreed 1st shipment dates.
• Responsible for communicating milestones & timelines to project teams & key stakeholders to enable on time project delivery.
• Responsible for communicating risks/issues via trade off & course correction discussions with senior stakeholders & implementing appropriate mitigation & contingency plans.
• Collaborating with Marketing & Commercial teams to enable successful project execution & pipeline management.
• Preparation, presenting at monthly UK Activation Board & EU Juice Council meetings to enable Gate approval decisions & making recommendations to create unlocks/mitigations for projects to enable on time delivery.
• Contributing to the delivery of Innovation Net Revenue planning process through to AOP submission via Juice innovation pipeline assessment.
• Supporting the calendar planning process collaborating with marketing & x – functional teams to ensure the calendar is executable, resourced and meets innovation algorithm requirements of AOP.
• Completion via x-functional teams, of Gate documents to align & deliver fast decision making with approvers at Gate decisions.
• Delivery of projects via agile “Speed to Market” Ways of Working.

Foundational Ingredients & Core Competencies:  

• Strong commercial understanding and experience of working in a large matrixed organisation.
• High level of business acumen is required ~ commercially savvy with strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication & presentation skills with the ability to collaborate & influence peer groups & senior stakeholders.
• Ability to lead a complex, fast moving agenda, managing ambiguity & significant amounts of change as well as dealing with time pressure.
• The ability to deliver results through individuals and functions is a critical skill for this role.
• The ability to quickly see (& sell) the “big picture” & give either a top-line view or a very detailed & accurate analysis is a critical skill.
• Project Management experience as well as a high level of organisational skills is preferred.
• Candidate must be a self-starter with a high drive for results, able to work independently & manage own agenda within a complex, fast paced environment.
• Ability to evaluate & assess project risks & issues working within a cross functional team to understand & communicate the impact to projects & recommend solutions to mitigate.
• Ability to make decisions independently within the project team environment to keep projects on track.
• Working knowledge of Project Management methodologies( i.e. Waterfall, Agile etc.).
• Proficient in using MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project).

This role will be based in London (Farringdon) - United Kingdom. It will be required to come 2 days in the office.