Senior Category Director responsible for optimizing procurement and supplier management in Technology at Truist. Leading a team in strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, and risk management.
About the role
- Senior Director Innovations leading innovation and product commercialisation portfolios across designated markets. Driving commercialisation projects while ensuring alignment with innovation strategy and supply chain abilities.
Responsibilities
- The Senior Director Innovations holds full accountability for the end-to-end innovation and product commercialisation portfolio across the allocated markets.
- Managing the full innovation portfolio from a commercialisation and project management perspective across the allocated territories.
- Clear escalation, communication, and prioritization of KO Gate/Slims decisions.
- Define priorities, sequencing and resource allocation across projects.
- Establish and govern stage-gate discipline and risk escalation routines.
- Provide executive transparency to OU LT and Bottler leadership.
- Ensure alignment between innovation strategy and supply chain capabilities.
- Act as the central counterpart to the Bottler Lead Commercialisation.
- Ensure integrated milestone planning across all projects.
- Personally lead selected high-visibility, complex or strategically critical commercialisation initiatives.
- Drive feasibility, trials, validation and launch readiness for these key projects.
Requirements
- 10+ years in Technical, Supply Chain or Innovation leadership roles.
- Proven experience managing complex innovation portfolios.
- Led project management teams and ensured effective execution of multiple initiatives.
- Strong executive stakeholder management experience.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic governance with operational delivery.
- Experience working directly with bottler leadership teams.
- Strong systems thinking and portfolio prioritization capability.
- Proficiency in data and digital competencies, transforming data into valuable insight.
- Adaptable and resilient, with a growth and continuous learning mindset; comfortable leading through ambiguity and change.
- Proven ability to lead, coach and develop teams and individuals, fostering a culture of collaboration, trust, accountability and high performance.
Benefits
- A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position is offered.
- Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 30%
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