SEE designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient.
SEE strives to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. Our culture guides everything we do – how we partner with our customers and suppliers, attract and retain top talent, and create value for our stakeholders.
SEE generated $5.5 billion in revenue in 2023 and has approximately 17,000 employees. The company operates out of 46 countries/territories, and our products are distributed in 115 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
Position Summary
The manager of the Innovation Center is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction, operations, and revenue driven through the Innovation Center. This role involves fostering a culture of innovation, showcasing SEE’s portfolio of offerings, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring the successful execution of customer engagements. The manager will lead efforts to host customer visits, training, and other events to highlight SEE’s full scope of product offerings.
Job Description
Strategic Leadership:
Develop and implement the vision, mission, and strategic plan for the Innovation Center.
Identify and prioritize key areas for value co-creation aligned with our distribution and end-user partners
Establish and maintain a means by which to capture the full revenue realized by the innovation center’s activities.
Collaboration and Partnerships:
Work closely with internal departments, including R&D, marketing, product development, and operations, to ensure alignment and integration of innovation efforts.
Partner with UPS to highlight our partnership and drive additional revenue to both organizations
Resource Management:
Manage the Innovation Center’s budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources to support innovation projects.
Oversee the acquisition and maintenance of tools, technologies, and facilities necessary for innovation activities.
Performance Measurement and Reporting:
Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of the Innovation Center’s activities.
Prepare and present regular reports to senior leadership on the progress, achievements, and challenges of the Innovation Center.
Market and Industry Insight:
Stay informed about emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in innovation management and related fields.
Apply insights from industry trends and research to inform and guide the Innovation Center’s strategy and initiatives.
Qualifications
3+ years of proven ability to manage customer relationships and accounts.
Experience dealing with large companies at the senior/executive level preferred
3+ years of consultative selling of services and solutions
A B.S. degree with a concentration in Marketing / Communications is preferred
Strong business acumen, organization, and written and verbal communication skills
Dynamic personality and comfortable communicating complex ideas to both technical and non-technical individuals and groups
Comfortable working with equipment platforms and agile under pressure.
Requisition id: 47146
Relocation: No
SEE is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. SEE prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the SEE name or logo. SEE will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at globalta@sealedair.com.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
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