Strategic Innovation Leader for PepsiCo Snacks in Greater China

2 weeks ago

Shanghai, Shanghai, China International Flavors & Fragrances Full time

Job Description

SUMMARY

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) is seeking an experienced Strategic Innovation Leader to join our team in Greater China. The successful candidate will work closely with the PepsiCo Snacks global account team to develop and implement innovative solutions that drive business growth and increase win rates in the region.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AND LEAD

Reporting to the Global Technical Director, PepsiCo Snacks, the Innovation Leader will be accountable for delivering strategic innovation and driving proactivity to the customer, building key relationships with stakeholders both internally at IFF and externally at PepsiCo China. This position serves as a key link to these stakeholders, anticipating critical trends, creating opportunities, and developing strategies to improve the understanding and acceptance of the IFF portfolio.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES


• Develop and implement technical programs in alignment with the Account Strategy, creating opportunities that deliver business growth and increase IFF share at the customer.

• Build technical-to-technical relationships/partnerships with key decision makers both internally at IFF and externally at PepsiCo China, navigating the customer technical culture and development processes. Nurture and provide best in class technical services to PepsiCo China by connecting and focusing IFF technical resources with the customer needs.

• Create collaboration between customer and IFF to grow business by positioning and utilizing IFF flavor/biotech creativity and technology.

• Work with the Global Technical Director to deliver innovation, productivity, and technologies to the local IFF creative team and the customer, targeted and focused on the specific needs for China.

• Build local portfolio of IFF technologies to support the growth opportunities in China, gaining an understanding of all IFF capabilities in China and creating relationships with the key stakeholders.

• Provide general technical innovation support to advance the IFF position at PepsiCo Snacks China.

RESPONSIBILITIES


• Serve as technical innovation primary point of contact for PepsiCo Snacks China.

• Help to build technical to technical relationships with customer's key technical contacts and navigate the customer's evolving structure and development processes through nurturing and regular visibility to the account.

• Work effectively at a hands-on level as required and provide leadership and advise to other members of the PepsiCo project teams, to ensure highest win rate possible by developing targeted innovation solutions, both proactively and reactively to meet the needs of the customer.

• Collaborate with the RAM and local IFF team (AM and C&D) to understand the needs and deliver specific innovation requirements for China.

• Interact and collaborate with the customer and facilitate the building of the customer technical relationship with the IFF technical community.

• Guide organization to design and develop key innovation needs specifically for China.

• Provide cross-functional leadership to execute and demonstrate proactive innovation projects utilizing IFF technologies and capabilities.

• Comfortable and knowledgeable with commercialization/scale up of seasonings and flavor systems, and other IFF technologies.

Job Requirements

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL


• Ability to identify and drive business opportunities to deliver business results.

• Instinctively creative and experimental in thinking and acting.

• Awareness and interest in local China and global news and issues.

• Ability to work independently and be strategic in thinking in ambiguous situations.

• Communicates a compelling and inspired vision and sense of core purpose to the customer.

• A passion for the snacks category, developing customer partnerships/relationships and driving growth.

At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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