Job Description
Innovation Controller
Permanent
Based in St Albans/Hybrid WFH
Premier Foods is on an exciting journey transitioning from turning the business around, to becoming an 'outperformance business', by further accelerated growth that's well ahead of the UK market norms. Innovation is at the heart of our strategic building blocks and the number onedriver for long term sustainable growth. With considerable focus, support and resource, there are multiple strategic innovation elements to this:
* Continued healthy growth of our core UK business driven by Fewer, Bigger, Better Innovation and increased brand marketing investment
* Expand our innovation strategy into:
1. New Whitespace Categories within the UK e.g. Ice-creams and Breakfast
2. New Markets e.g. Complete Nutrition DTC
* Accelerate our International growth by driving the existing international markets, and expanding into new ones
* Selective M&A that will complement our growth
* Supported by an inclusive and diverse organisation with winning mindset and a future focused ESG agenda
This Central Innovation Lead is a high profile, pivotal role focusing on Whitespace Expansion to deliver continued outperformance. The mission is to discover and deliver game-changing ideas to enhance the quality and value of the Innovation pipeline, at an acce...