Senior Manager/Director of Innovation, Beverage

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🕒 May 19

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Tradin Organic

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501 - 1000 employees

🌾 Agriculture

🤝 B2B

💰 $3M Corporate Round on 2019-05

Agriculture • B2B • Food & Beverage

Tradin Organic is a global leader in organic ingredients, offering a comprehensive range of services including sourcing, processing, and distribution. The company is dedicated to sustainability, supporting regenerative organic farming practices to enhance soil quality and produce nutritious food. With sourcing projects around the world, Tradin Organic ensures reliable supply and organic integrity throughout the supply chain. Their commitment to sustainability goes beyond organic standards, involving numerous initiatives and partnerships to support both farmers and the environment.

📋 Description

• Partner with Retail leadership and Sales to identify opportunities, customer needs, and white space. • Leverage consumer insights, market data, and trends to evolve product strategy. • Own and manage product-level P&Ls, including cost targets, margin expectations, and pricing guardrails based on current market pricing. • Ensure all innovation aligns with financial, operational, and customer requirements. • Own a 3‑year innovation roadmap and a longer‑range (5–7 year) opportunity view. • Build and scale the innovation function over time. • Partner with third-party formulators and development partners. • Own development and management of product P&Ls, leveraging cross-functional inputs from Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance. • Define product and packaging specification requirements in partnership with Operations. • Evaluate formulations against cost, quality, scalability, and sensory targets. • Own and optimize the innovation portfolio and stage-gate process. • Build detailed project plans, timelines, and dependencies across internal and external teams. • Drive cross-functional alignment and accountability. • Lead continuous improvement of stage-gate process to enhance speed, visibility, and execution. • Drive the end-to-end development of innovation projects from concept to commercialization and full-scale production. • Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to ensure manufacturability and cost targets are achieved.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Business, Engineering, or related field (Food Science is a plus, not required) • Sr. Manager: 5 – 8+ years in CPG innovation, product development, commercialization, or technical program management • Director: 8 – 10+ years leadership in CPG innovation – leading teams and product portfolios • Strong experience building and managing product P&Ls and cost models • Experience working with external formulators, co-manufacturers, or development partners • Proven track record of launching beverage products from concept through commercialization • Experience managing innovation pipelines using project management tools (Asana or similar platforms) • Strong understanding of ingredient costs, supply chain, and manufacturing constraints • Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• 11 paid holidays • 401(K) matching • Comprehensive health insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Life Insurance • Educational Assistance • Paid Paternity Leave • Volunteering Paid Time Off