Job description
BRAND INNOVATION MANAGER (EVE) You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As a Brand Innovation Manager, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.
About the job
As Brand Innovation Manager for Eve, one of Japan’s most trusted self-care brands, you will shape and deliver the innovation pipeline that keeps the brand growing and relevant. Working across R&D, regulatory, finance, supply and commercial teams, you will turn consumer insight into new product concepts, build the business case behind them, set the right pricing, and guide each idea through to launch.
You will own the innovation roadmap for the brand and the decisions that bring it to life. Main responsibilities: Develop and deliver innovative brand concepts grounded in consumer insight, market trends and competitive analysis. Build the business case for each innovation, including market sizing, revenue and profitability projections, and secure leadership approval.
Set pricing strategy and manage the profit and loss forecast for innovation projects, working with finance on cost and margin. Lead the innovation gate reviews, coordinating documentation and cross functional alignment on priorities and resources. Partner with R&D, regulatory, supply chain and commercial teams, and manage external partners and agencies.
Track innovation performance against plan and keep senior management updated on progress and results. Guide and support more junior team members on innovation practice.
About you
Experience: Proven experience in brand management, innovation or product development, with a track record of launching new products, ideally in the Japanese consumer market. Skills: Strong analytical and financial modelling ability, solid project management and cross functional leadership, and confident use of consumer insight, market research, Excel and PowerPoint.
Education
A degree in marketing, business, engineering or a related field. An MBA is welcome but not required. Languages: Fluent Japanese and English, written and spoken. This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you.
We are challengers. We are Opella.
About Us
Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers.
Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.
opella.com .