Breakthrough Innovation Senior Manager - Strategic Opportunities

Job Description :

Job Title:

Breakthrough Innovation Senior Manager - Strategic Opportunities

About the role:

This role reports to the Senior Breakthrough Innovation Lead – Strat Ops (Next Gen TBA). The role will be accountable for delivering against key strategic briefs through responsonsibility for early strategic scoping, development and exploration of ideas all the way through to bringing these to life as pilots prior to integration into the business at scale.

Role Responsibilities:

Shape the Future:

Shape & lead the development of 2-3 key projects against the relevant strategic opportunity space(s);
Be a thought leader through continually developing our understanding of the strategic opportunity in a constantly evolving competitor landscape.
Create momentum and alignment for the strategy ensuring it is in service of market, brand and consumer strategies.
Create solid and collaborative interdependencies across GBTs, Markets, R&D and Supply to build early support for projects enabling teams to implement at pace and make bold decisions while taking accountability.

Drive Impact Today:

Lead multiple cross-functional and complex projects comprising internal and external partnerships to excel in ambiguous and novel environments. Partner with key brands and markets to ensure the projects have a powerul future runway for impact.
Lead projects through the Ignite process developing the business model canvas, test plans and pilots partnering with supply fulfillment, procurement, and wider technical teams.
Take a leadership role within the Breakthrough innovation team to build capability & culture across the team.

Win through Execution:

Lead allocated OIE budget to best develop the project(s) roadmap;
Use both conventional business finance and new business model financing models and approaches.
Exit successful projects from BI into the core business to scale in core markets globally or into venture models.

Key Partners

Global Head of Strategic Opportunities and Planning; GM Breakthrough Innovation
Regional Innovation Directors and regional Heads of R&D as required by project
GBT Innovation Leads
In-market Marketing Directors, Category Directors & GBT Directors as appropriate

Experience / skills required:

Envision future needs and build capabilities ahead of the curve both strategically and tactically
Strong analytical systems thinker able to create credible propositions from a blank page, translating the unknown into tangible business practices.
Deep consumer bias & insight
Strong communication skills, able to seamlessly influence across multiple boundaries (internally and externally)
Strong drive, delivery and determination
Ability to constantly prioritize projects and workload
Balances autonomy with interdependence and collaboration with tenacity
Ability to implement projects and adapt/change strategies in a timely manner as needed
Strong relationship building and alignment skills. Resilience combined with emotional intelligence to build collaborative and powerful relatiopnships and teams that are able to thrive within uncertainty
8+ years of experience in leading large, cross functional projects, ideally including breakthrough/disruptive or novel products/capabilities within established organizations and/or innovation across partnerships or ventures
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-11-05

Salary Range:

Minimum Salary:

$125925

Maximum Salary:

$209875

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.