Innovation pipeline and project delivery

- Support and own defined innovation projects and workstreams, coordinating day-to-day delivery, milestones, dependencies, risks and decision points from concept through launch and post-launch optimisation.
- Support preparation of project briefs, status updates, gate materials and recommendations to support timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Work across near-term launch delivery and longer-term opportunity development, escalating material changes to scope, cost, timing or proposition.

Consumer-led prospect and proposition development

- Partner with Consumer Insights and Brand teams to translate research, market trends and unmet consumer needs into clear opportunity briefs and testable propositions.
- Support concept development, product and pack proposition refinement, consumer testing and synthesis of learning into recommended next steps.
- Ensure propositions are aligned with brand strategy, portfolio priorities and intended consumer and customer needs.

Cross-functional orchestration

- Support the coordination of cross-functional innovation projects with R&D;, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights, Brand, Sales and Shopper experts; establish clear workstream accountabilities, deliverables and dependencies.
- Partner with functional experts who lead their respective disciplines, while maintaining visibility of progress, risks and implications for the overall consumer proposition and commercial objectives.
- Support and facilitate project meetings focused on decisions, learning,



risks and next actions; maintain clear records of agreed actions and ownership.

Commercialisation, governance and launch readiness

- Develop and consolidate business-case inputs, including opportunity sizing, volume, pricing, margin and growth potential, in partnership with Finance, Insights and commercial experts who own their specialist assumptions.
- Coordinate governance requirements and stage-gate submissions, maintaining accurate project information in agreed systems and tools (Planisware).
- Partner with Brand and customer-facing teams on launch handovers and readiness, without replacing functional ownership of go-to-market execution.

Performance and continuous improvement

- Support the definition and tracking of project success measures, including consumer validation, launch readiness and post-launch performance.
- Coordinate post-launch reviews, document insights and recommended improvements, and apply learning to future pipeline decisions.
- Identify practical improvements to templates, routines and ways of working that make innovation delivery simpler and more effective. Contribute to longer-term pipeline development and innovation and go-to-market capability building.
- Support Innovation team operations, including project investment and budget tracking, Buywise purchase order management, expenditure reporting and coordination of administrative processes to enable effective project delivery and financial governance.

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📌 Assistant Innovation Project Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Suntory Global Spirits
📍 Sydney