von: Sazerac Company
With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Traveller, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Svedka, Wheatley, BuzzBallz, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka.
Job Description/Responsibilities
The Global Innovation Manager sits at the heart of our commercial engine within the Global Innovation Commercialisation team, based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Reporting directly to the Director of Innovation Commercialisation, this role drives end-to-end project execution across our global innovation pipeline, with a primary regional focus on Europe, Africa, AUS/NZ, LATAM, and Asia. The Global Innovation Manager leads multifunctional project execution from initial marketing concept all the way to the retail shelf. /Serve as the central execution link driving alignment across Brand Teams, Operations, Procurement, RD, Regulatory, Legal, and regional Commercial partners. /Lead regular project status meetings, alignment sessions, and cross-departmental reviews to maintain transparent communication pathways across global time zones. /Guide projects through all stage-gate commercialisation steps, including scope lock, design lock, artwork approvals, master data setup, sales enablement, production scheduling, and initial shipment logistics.
- Portfolio Control: Efficiently track, prioritise, and manage a varied project pipeline across multiple brand portfolios and maturity stages.
- Tactical Decision-Making Risk Mitigation: Own project-level decisions, conduct options analysis, and proactively identify operational bottlenecks to build swift mitigation and contingency plans with leadership. /Drive continuous improvement to optimise project delivery performance, ensuring product launches land on time, in full, and within budget parameters.
Qualifications/Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on project management or commercialisation experience in FMCG, beverage alcohol, CPG, or manufacturing sectors (strictly physical goods/CPG – no IT, technology, insurance, or financial services backgrounds).
- Demonstrated ability to manage multi-project pipelines in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualification
- Prior experience within the Beverage Alcohol industry or Spirits sector.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and quick adaptability to digital stage-gate platforms, workflow management systems, and ERP tools. /
Temporary Work Manager in Römerswil Arbeitgeber: Sazerac Company
Sazerac ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern nicht nur eine spannende Karriere in der dynamischen Spirituosenbranche bietet, sondern auch ein unterstützendes und kollaboratives Arbeitsumfeld fördert. Mit einem starken Fokus auf Mitarbeiterentwicklung und kontinuierlichem Wachstum, profitieren die Angestellten von vielfältigen Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten und einer Unternehmenskultur, die Innovation und Teamarbeit schätzt. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht die internationale Ausrichtung des Unternehmens, dass Mitarbeiter an globalen Projekten arbeiten und wertvolle Erfahrungen sammeln können.
