Product and Innovation Consultant

6 months ago


Remote, Canada SmartSweets Full time

As our **Product and Innovation Consultant (Contract)** you will be playing a vital role in bringing our (sweet) product roadmap to life, ensuring a best in class product experience to our consumers while meeting margin, speed, and total revenue objectives for the brand. Great tasting products are central to our brand expression and critical for us to drive forward the mission to Kick Sugar, Keep Candy This role reports to the Co-CEO and can be remote in North America, or hybrid in Vancouver, BC.

**Who Are We?**

SmartSweets is revolutionizing the candy industry by innovating the delicious candy you know and love with less sugar. We are passionate about growing and championing a diverse Squad of high-performing individuals and are fueled by our sweet culture. We are proudly Female-Founded and on our way to kicking 5.5 billion grams of excess sugar out of candy in a single year, what we call our Mission to Mars.

**How You Will Support Our Mission (Responsibilities)**:
This position is a total business/general management position which means that you need to be equally comfortable working with Finance on product costs as you are working with a co-manufacturer on cost drivers, fielding consumer research, and working with Sales on launch timing. The role is responsible for all aspects of product innovation however the technical aspects of product formulation, consumer claims, nutritionals, processing & manufacturing are managed by our Director of R&D.

This role will champion 2-3 critical new products through commercialization, staying ahead of all critical success factors and risks, including:

- **Project champion through commercialization**: Leadership sees you as “the” person driving the project to its conclusion. You are one step ahead of everyone else on any project risks and challenges and develop mitigation plans
- **Co-manufacturer lead during development**: You are firm on what you need with co-mans while maintaining strong/productive relationships with them. You finalize costs by driving detailed conversations with them on cost-drivers
- **Cross-functional leader**:You are relentless in collaborating and communicating to all key stakeholders on status, milestones and commercialization decisions. You know what aspects of the project require decisions from other functions
- **Consumer mindset**:You prioritize a wonderful consumer experience and fight for it, especially relative to the product brief. You field, summarize and action consumer feedback
- **Tradeoff balancer**:You understand the tradeoffs between speed, consumer experience and profitability

**What You Bring (Qualifications & Experience)**:

- 7-10 years marketing innovation experience in food/CPG, inclusive of all the aspects of new product commercialization: co-man management, project management, P&L, strategic thinking, and scaling commercialization
- Drive and willingness to roll up your sleeves and do the work. Demonstrated detailed orientation, resilience, urgency and motivation to solve complex problems
- Must have a valid passport and driver licence
- Strong analysis and decision making skills: across the consumer experience, shelf presence, financials/cost drivers, pricing, contracts, claims, competitive benchmarking
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, visual), and ability to work effectively with personnel at all levels of the organization
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience with managing supplier and co-man relationships

**Join the Mission**:

- **Our Commitment to Celebrating Individuality - Representation & Inclusion**_
- We are committed to elevating the voices of Squad and community members on the mission to Kick Sugar, Keep Candy We believe representing the uniqueness of all makes us stronger as a whole. We are making a difference by encouraging all Squad Members to practise allyship, educate themselves, inspire others to take action and support underrepresented communities._

**Job Types**: Temporary, Contract

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote



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