Diageo

Manager, Commercial Innovation Diageo Beer Company

Diageo • $105K — $175K *
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Commercial, Innovation, Brand Marketing, Sales Operations, or related fields within CPG or Beverage Alcohol.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills.
  • Experience in end-to-end commercialization, including innovation planning and launch execution.
  • Ability to analyze data and business performance metrics for decision-making.
  • Highly organized, collaborative, and self-motivated with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead commercialization planning and execution from concept to launch.
  • Develop and manage integrated commercialization plans across multiple initiatives.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure launch readiness and execution.
  • Identify commercialization opportunities and optimize launch timing with Sales & Key Accounts.
  • Coordinate the development of commercialization deliverables and execution tools.
  • Monitor commercialization performance and proactively resolve issues.
  • Evaluate post-launch performance and gather insights for future improvements.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
  • Flexibility to manage wellbeing and work-life balance.
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives to foster a sense of belonging.
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and improvement.
  • Potential for additional rewards, including annual incentives and stock awards.
Full Job Description
Job Description :

About this role

Role and Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end commercialization planning and execution for innovation and renovation initiatives, ensuring successful delivery from concept through launch.
  • Develop and manage integrated commercialization plans, coordinating timelines, achievements, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies across multiple initiatives.
  • Partner with Brand, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Key Accounts, and Customer Marketing to ensure launch readiness and successful in-market execution.
  • Collaborate with Sales & Key Accounts teams to identify commercialization opportunities, optimize launch timing, and support customer-specific execution strategies.
  • Coordinate the development and delivery of commercialization deliverables, including selling materials, launch communications, customer assets, and execution tools.
  • Manage commercialization timelines and key achievements, ensuring forecast submissions, launch deliverables, and cross-functional commitments are completed on schedule.
  • Monitor commercialization performance and launch readiness, proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and advancing key decisions when appropriate.
  • Maintain access to the innovation portfolio by providing regular project status updates, tracking achievements, and communicating risks and mitigation plans.
  • Evaluate post-launch performance and assemble key learnings to improve future commercialization efforts and execution.
  • Support the continuous improvement of commercialization processes, tools, governance, and cross-functional ways of working.


Preferred Experience, Skills and Education Requirements

  • Educational & Professional Background: Bachelor's degree required. Minimum 5 years of Commercial, Innovation, Brand Marketing, Sales Operations, or related experience within CPG or Beverage Alcohol
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to partner optimally across Brand, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, Operations, Key Accounts and other teams to drive successful commercialization execution.
  • Project Leadership & Execution: Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, timelines, deliverables, and priorities while driving execution.
  • Commercialization Expertise: Experience supporting end-to-end commercialization, including innovation planning, launch execution, customer readiness, operational coordination, and post-launch performance tracking.
  • Commercial & Analytical Attitude: Ability to demonstrate insights, data, and business performance metrics to find opportunities and support decision-making.
  • Personal Attributes: Highly organized, collaborative, and self-motivated with strong communication skills and the ability to influence across teams in a fast-paced environment.
    Experience/skills required:

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so we can support you to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Our purpose is crafting iconic drinks chosen for life's moments. And it's our people, with their different experiences, perspectives and talents, who make that possible.

We value diversity in its broadest sense and want everyone to feel they can belong, contribute and strive for their personal best. You'll work alongside people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives - challenging, supporting and learning from one another as one outstanding team.

Together, we're constantly learning and improving, combining the strength of our people, capabilities and iconic brands to raise the bar, grow and win. Wherever you join us, you'll have the opportunity to contribute, make an impact and play your part in making life's moments mean a little more.

Ready to bring your best? This could be your opportunity.

Recruitment Scam Warning

Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.

Worker Type :
Regular

Primary Location:
3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :
2026-10-02

3 WORLD TRADE CENTER, NY: SALARY RANGE IS FROM $105.225 TO $175.375 (ANNUAL)

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role's primary location.

About Diageo

Diageo is a British multinational alcoholic beverages company, with its headquarters in London, England. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine. Diageo's brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Buchanan's and Windsor whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. The company was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan. Diageo has operations in more than 180 countries and employs around 27,000 people.
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Size
27,783 employees
Market Cap
$100.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.1 billion
5 Year Trend
+5.1%
Revenue
$11.4 billion
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