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Sector Innovation Manager

Company:  Caribbean Development Company Limited
Sector:  Beverage
Country:  Trinidad and Tobago
Location(s): 

Curepe, TT

Job Function:  Commercial & Customer Service

 

 

Job Summary

  • The Sector Innovation Manager shapes the future of our beverage portfolio. Close to the market and closely tuned to consumers, especially the next generation, they spot emerging needs before they go mainstream, identify the next disruptors to the category, and turn insight into innovations that win in market, at scale. 

 

Job Responsibilities

  • Consumer & Market Foresight 

    • Stays close to today’s and tomorrow’s consumers (Gen Z and Gen Alpha), in trade, at home, and online. 

    • Anticipates emerging needs and trends (health, sustainability, premiumization, new occasions) and turns them into opportunities. 

    • Scans start-ups, challenger brands, and adjacent categories to identify disruptors early. 

    • Uses competitive, consumer, and market data to uncover white spaces. 

  • Opportunity Identification & Sizing 

    • Sizes opportunities with robust business cases (market potential, incrementality, profitability). 

    • Works with the Sector CMO to shape the innovation agenda, assessing ideas for desirability, feasibility, and viability. 

    • Validates ideas quickly through prototyping, co-creation, and pilots. 

  • Challenging the Status Quo 

    • Brings a bold, external perspective that challenges category conventions and internal assumptions. 

    • Champions breakthrough platforms, formats, and business models while keeping a balanced pipeline. 

    • Agility – ability to challenge current ways of working, to be faster from ideation to commercialization.  

  • Leading Innovation from Concept to Commercialization 

    • Owns the stage-gate process from concept to launch (new platforms, packaging formats, flavor extensions). 

    • Leads cross-functional teams (R&D, procurement, operations, finance, supply chain) to deliver execution excellence against KPIs. 

    • Works with commercial teams to ensure every innovation is built to scale. 

    • Delivers commercial toolkits, brand training, and launch materials on time. 

  • Inspiring Teams & Stakeholders 

    • Inspires local and international teams and distributors with a clear innovation vision. 

    • Embeds innovation plans into the business planning rhythm across functions and levels. 

    • Keeps launch communication clear and ongoing. 

  • Driving Performance & Continuous Learning 

    • Tracks innovation KPIs (trial, repeat, rate of sale, ROI) to optimize, scale, or stop initiatives. 

    • Nurtures innovations after launch to build lasting value. 

    • Troubleshoots quickly and develops mitigation plans to deliver the Innovation AOP. 

    • Feeds learnings back into the pipeline. 

    • Performs other related duties as required. 

 

Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration or Management Studies. 

  • Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in similar job function. 

 

Knowledge & Skills

  • Very commercially astute and understands key commercial drivers 

  • Competent in P&L Management 

  • Strong consumer and customer marketing/sales capabilities 

  • Excellent analytical skills 

  • Persuasive communication skills 

  • Engaging presentation capabilities 

  • Highly skilled in fostering commitment and creating alignment across consumer and customer agenda 

  • Ability to work with ambiguity and at pace with multiple projects 

  • Sufficient gravitas to present to and influence key customers at a senior level 

 

Deadline: October 30, 2026 

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