Strategy & Innovation PMO

**Job Location: Alba (CN)**:
**Company Description**:
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 38,767 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

**Long Description**:
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

**About the Role**:
Ferrero Group Headquarters is looking for a Strategy & Innovation PMo to join the S&I PMo Team in Alba reporting to the Strategy & Innovation Function Integration & PMo.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Support Strategy & Innovation Department in the innovation process and new products development, ensuring S&I new product development priorities are executed and being a relevant trait-d’union and actor between S&I Marketing Strategists and S&I Product Innovation Labs by:
- Collecting strategic inputs and product briefs from the marketing strategists to the product laboratories
- Map project timeline of the different projects and monitor product development progresses in accordance with agreed-upon schedules and provide regular progress to key stakeholders
- Ensuring prioritization across different initiatives
- Ensuring all new products relevant elements are available (product features and specifications, recipes costs, )
- Coordinating category specific operative meetings and follow-ups to ensure the effective new product development process

**...**:

- Innovation update / Country Visit / GLT /and relevant group meeting support- Facilitate product / samples preparation in alignment with S&I Strategist and Product Laboratories
- Ensure tastings are carried out prior Innovation Updates and supporting materials are available
- Provide and ensure the preparation of relevant elements for each of the product that will be tasted (eg “Scheda prodotto”, recipe costs, )
- Participate in the preparation meeting to facilitate product developments finalization
- Define Action Plan and ensure promptly sharing and cascading of key information with all relevant stakeholders

**Who we are looking for**:

- At least 5 years of experience preferably in FMCG or Consulting firms
- If possible good knowledge or experience in product developments
- Prior experience in a PMO / Strategic role or in Marketing/Product Development is a plus
- Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a solid strategic mindset
- Genuine interest in contributing to improvement through order, organization, process analysis combined with a spirit of collaboration and service.
- Knowledge of business/commercial workflow
- Fast learner, flexible and collaborative attitude
- Ability to influence the key stakeholders and to work in a complex multi-functional environment is a plus
- Experience working in an international and multi-cultural environment
- Good fluency in English (written and spoken)
- MS Office (Excel, Power Point, Word)

**How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero**:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.

**Requisition ID**

61763

**Job function**

Strategy and M&A

**Country**

Italy

**City**

Alba