Innovation Manager

We are Subway Headquarters! A dedicated team of professionals supporting thousands of franchisees around the globe.

As a key member of the Non-Traditional Innovation team, the Innovation Manager will be responsible for identifying and implementing key growth opportunities by leveraging data, guest insights, and competitive findings to develop and define a clear growth plan and roadmap that generates incremental sales growth and unlocks new revenue streams. This role will also require a high level of collaboration with business units, sales teams, and cross-functional partners to develop strategy and execute launches and will support the end-to-end process from ideating, creating the vision & pipeline, building out capabilities and business models, all the way through in-market tests and ultimately launch.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborative member of a dedicated Innovation team (4 person cross-functional team focused on launching new innovations within Subway).
• Be a key contributor to Non-Traditional’s annual, and multi-year growth strategy and plan.
• Support key initiatives- including but not limited to strategic vision- innovation pipeline creation- internal alignment- development and execution of innovation programs.
• Champion for Design Thinking and the Innovation process. Ideate – Validate – Iterate.
• Develop testing plan, execute test plan and evaluation – with ultimate goal to scale innovation broadly.
• Lead the implementation and execution of innovation initiatives from the initial idea through final measurement and performance.
• Ensure daily progress across multiple simultaneous initiatives, in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Own innovation programs and validity. Desirability, Viability, and Feasibility.
• Manage internal and external partners offering various inputs for initiatives.
• Track project timelines and work plan toward key deliverables within scope and budget.
• Maintain current knowledge of key competitor offerings and innovations, as well as industry trends that allow Subway to “see around the corner” and be at the forefront of QSR innovation.
• Operate with global mindset and work in partnership with other key regions to define innovation opportunities and work through pilots, business cases and roll out.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years related exprience. Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Influencer with strong interpersonal and written communication skills, building business cases and articulating them for leadership and other internal/external stakeholders.
• Understanding and knowledge of the innovation process - a love of data and insights, always asking “how can we do this better/differently?”.
• Experience with Growth Channels / Non-Traditional Retail a plus.
• Self-motivated team player that brings excitement and enthusiasm to work each day and has strong cross functional experience, emotional intelligence and empathy.
• Strong personal motivation in fast-paced environment, with a bias for action.
• Strong “big picture” perspective, while also delivering the innovation initiative at hand.
• Outstanding verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills to internal/external partners with an ability to influence.
• A growth mindset: track record of leveraging learnings, demonstrates entrepreneurial spirit, always imagining what’s possible.
• A shared appreciation for and commitment to our values.
• QSR/Restaurant/Retail experience a plus, but not required.

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