Innovations Catalyst
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Company Description
SEVAN AB import, produce and distribute world foods, and in particular Middle Eastern food, to the wholesale, retail, and foodservice segments. The company is a market leader in Sweden and is now in the phase of expanding to the other Scandinavian countries and the rest of Europe. The company is growing very fast with over 20% increase in turnover, to 220 Million SEK for 2015. SEVAN strives for both the unique and revolutionary as well as realizing commercial market gaps and obvious business opportunities.
SEVAN is now looking for an experienced Project Manager within Innovation and New Product Development to join as the new Innovations Catalyst. It is a new position and the person with play a key part securing SEVANS continued success.
Job Description
As the new Innovations Catalyst of Sevan, you will report directly to the CEO and be responsible for all the innovation related activities within Sevan Hummus Factory (SHF) and the sister company Sevan. You will work closely together with both internal and external stakeholders to achieve a revolutionary innovation pipe-line for the companies. You are also responsible for building and executing related sustainable processes on both strategic and operational level for the organization.
Your responsibility is to secure and maintain a leading position for Sevan in terms of continuous successful new product development (NPD). You have ownership of the product innovations from vision to first sale. You will also coordinate and facilitate between all NPD relations, internal and external, to secure urgent delivery of projects.
A way of expressing the SEVAN innovation sprit would be to say that “We exist only in the tomorrow and use today only to get us there.” To accomplish this, it is important that you bring a high degree of vision, creativity, energy, engagement and the capability to influence others without having a formal mandate.
You will be a part of the SHF organization and have a base both in Märsta, as well as in the head office in Upplands Väsby.
Main Activities
- Vision crafting on all levels - world and market development, the company, as well as category and product.
- Innovation formulation including, but not limited to, recipe, raw-material, packaging, design, technical, production, service, pricing, conceptualization, segmentation, trade- and consumer presentation, sales and marketing, etc.
- NPD strategy formulation and implementation, as well as tactical process formulation and implementation
- Trend assessment and analysis
- Market gap and opportunity assessment, quantifiable analysis, and action plan formulation
- Create new market offerings
- Costing and pricing analysis
- Project management
- Customer leads up to the point of first sale and involvement in the feedback loop
- Relevant exhibitions, planning and participation
- Travel as per required
- Creative, open-minded and visionary
- Passionate foodie
- Appreciation of, and sensitivity to, both our core regions, the Middle East and the West.
- Influencer and able to drive cross-functional team collaboration and delivery
- Energetic and engaged
- Proactive initiator, doer and a “problem solver”
- Ability to be flexible between strategic and operational activities
- Analytical skills
- Commercial understanding and skills
- Extremely strong and proven project leader
- Good communication skills (oral and written)
- English is required (written and spoken)