At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. 

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers. 
 

The Director, Platform Innovation will identify and commercialize future value drivers and US commercial opportunities for the Lifestyle brands. The position will be responsible for developing and executing the long term innovation strategy, incubating new opportunities and bringing innovative products to market, generating between $50 and $100MM+ in new value creation. 

The incumbent will ensure the use of customer/market insights to influence and craft growth agendas that expand the business boundaries and is responsive to ever-changing business and consumer needs. This includes expanding through new brands, channels and offerings that align within the Lifestyle Franchise.

Additionally, this role will lead a team of internal and external resources/contractors to develop, commercialize and market our products and solutions, which can include new operating models (e.g. direct to consumer). This position will work cross functionally to ensure collaboration and flawless execution in all areas of operational responsibility for these new brands and business while they scale up for inclusion in other business units.

The preferred candidate will be within commutable distance to a Nestle Health Science headquarter location (Chicago, NY/NJ, Palm Beach).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Identify and commercialize opportunities in new growth areas that will expand the business boundaries and be future value drivers. Analyze and launch opportunities that the organization can ultimately scale up.
• Incubate projects in growth areas - develop hypothesis, design, execute and measure to build business case for full commercialization.
• Refine existing business ideas through research and customer feedback.
• Discover unmet customer needs and extract customer needs/challenges that inspire ideas for future value drivers.  Evaluate new opportunities – organic and inorganic.
• Collaborate with a network of internal and external partners to identify, launch and refine business ideas.
• Partner across the Brand Leadership Teams to develop opportunities and leverage expertise from COE’s and Brand leads. 
• Build cross-functional teams that can go from concept creation to graduation of concepts into businesses for scaling.
• Develop plans and execute end-to-end work to launch a new opportunities.
• Present recommendations, key findings, progress and challenges to Leadership Team(s).

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline from an accredited institution required.  
• MBA/Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of strategic CPG brand marketing experience in progressively responsible leadership roles.  Consumer health/wellness experience preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership capacity.
• 3+ years of experience in an innovation capacity preferred 
• Experience in driving transformation efforts with proven results in delivering strong sales and profit growth.
• Relevant marketing/brand experience in a fast-paced, product-oriented and consumer-driven company.
• Experience building new business opportunities and operationalizing them into the market.
• Experience in CPG, consumer health or pharma industries.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Broad knowledge of the growth process including inorganic and organic strategies 
• Expertise within marketing vehicle prioritization, budgeting, ROI quantification
• Ability to articulate business case and influence key stakeholders
• Self-starter with high energy, with curiosity, autonomy, and a sense of urgency
• Highly results oriented with strong financial and strategic acumen
• Inspirational leader with experience developing people and driving change
• Ability to continuously look outwards for external opportunities, competitive intelligence, new trends
• Strong executive presence; capable of forging deep cross-functional relationships and influencing laterally at senior levels 
• Tenacity, passion and ability to take the lead in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities

The approximate pay range for this position is $170,000 to $230,000. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.  Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at About Us | Making an Impact | Nestle Careers (nestlejobs.com). 

Requisition ID: 326247 

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