Brand Innovation Lead

Are you passionate about driving innovation and shaping the future of leading brands? We’re looking for a dynamic Innovation Lead to set our vision and drive the delivery of innovation across our portfolio. 

Key Responsibilities:. 

• Establish innovation frameworks and build capability across the organization. 

• Drive innovation across the portfolio, identifying new opportunities and optimizing existing offerings. 

• Lead the transformation of our new brand, ensuring its success and continuous improvement. 

• Shape and define this role, making a lasting impact on the business. 

This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of innovation in a fast-moving environment. If you’re a forward-thinker with a passion for transformation, we’d love to hear from you! 

Apply now to be part of something exciting. 

Our approach to innovation will be aligned with the strategic ambition, and the purpose of Pouring happiness into lives, and deliver against the customer ambition of Serving more customers and delighting them every time.  

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

This role is Hybrid and can be based in either our Burton or London office 

Your role as Brand Innovation Lead

Building the frameworks and tools to support growth of our brands through innovation 

• Develop innovation capabilities across the organisation 

• Build and implement frameworks  

• Align innovation thinking with existing strategies 

• Support the transition from Gate 4 to scale, ensuring seamless execution and impact 

• Ensure we apply innovation learnings to new projects

 Lead and manage innovation work streams to drive business growth.  

• Identify and set portfolio opportunities, ensuring seamless execution.  

• Develop and implement upstream innovation strategies. 

• Partner with divisional brand teams to bring innovation to life. 

• Drive innovation initiatives across the portfolio, from concept to execution.

Play a key role in optimising our new transformation brand: 

• Optimise the pilot programme to drive short term trading success 

• Support function teams in defining next steps and applying key learnings 

• Translate insights into actionable strategies for future innovation 

What you’ll bring… 

• Experience in Innovation, ideally front-end Innovation
• Experience in Innovation Processes. Ideally experience in developing/optimising innovation processes within an organisation
• Experience in Brand Strategy  
• People management skills - engages and effectively leads a high performing team and has a style of operation that delivers excellent results through people.
• Excellent influencing skills coupled with the ability to impact across a variety of stakeholders.
• An excellent understanding of insight and data to identify opportunities for innovation, create consumer led innovation and commercially measure its success 

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