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As the Tea Category Innovation Project Manager, you will lead high priority, cross functional, complex innovation projects across the total Tea Category business. Supporting the European Category Marketing Managers in taking innovation opportunities forward from being conceptual ideas to fully executional products across multiple markets with specific responsibility of managing all artwork processes and project timelines. You will also need to be able to mobilise and run virtual teams across the business and respond to challenges whilst finding solutions across multiple markets

Country: TBC

You will be responsible for:

• Managing multiple innovation & artwork projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment across the total tea category business
• Providing clear timelines for each of your individual projects and ensuring all parties deliver their actions to those timelines on time and in full 
• Establishing clear direction and alignment by ensuring clear objectives are in place
• Manage cross functional project teams and establish and embed improved ways of working across multiple markets
• Implement new in house artwork process, system and tool across multiple complex artwork projects
• Be the brand guardian to establish and facilitate the appropriate levels of governance for the Global Clipper / Cupper brand to provide consistent delivery and execution of the brand across all artwork
• Engage and align colleagues across all levels to deliver key innovation projects on time and in full
• Drive progress in a consistent, transparent way, and to identify and manage issues, risks and opportunities along the way

Key Competencies:

Functional skills :

• Strong project management skills
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Effective written, verbal  communication & presentation skills
• Extremely organised, good at detail and positive mindset
• Able to build strong relationships cross functionally and across markets to drive growth
• Lead the execution toolkit of innovation artwork guidelines

Leadership / influencing skills :

•    Ability to engage positively & influence/persuade multiple key stakeholders
•    Critical thinking to simplify tasks and develop clear and concise actions

General skills :

• Strong project management skills
• Extremely Organized
• Clear communication
• Ability to build effective relationships
• Ability to influence/persuade
• Problem solving
• Calm under pressure

Background and education :

• Experience of leading and managing multiple complex projects across multiple countries .
• Experience of using artwork management tools
• Multi-country and/or working in a matrix (preferred)

Critical Competencies:

• Co-operation & Influencing
  • Working together as one team
  • Pulls networks and communities together in order to achieve the right outcome

• Agility
  • Adapting to new situations: quickly taking decisions
  • Ability to act at pace: change direction when required
• Responsibility
  • Does not shy away from tough decisions or conversations
• Entrepreneurship
  • Running the business as if it were your own
  • Finds a better way

Job requirement:

• Fluent written and spoken English
• Additional languages (ideal but not mandatory)

Our ideal person will:-
-    Be able to work as part of a cross functional project team and bring team together
-    Self-starter with proactive approach and be able to work as a team player as well as work autonomously, with a ‘can-do’ and ‘keep it simple’ attitude
-    Organiser and influencer with the ability to build trust and credibility, delivering to short deadlines and across multiple projects all at once
-    Ability to influence key stakeholders 
-    Interpret research and data 
-    Excellent communicator and inspiring, confident presenter
 

For questions on this job description please contact: Ali.Kirk@ecotone.bio