Zone Brand Lead - Innovation & Whitespaces

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** Zone Bran
**** d Lead
- Innovation & Whitespaces**## **
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Location:

Brisbane or Sydney***## **
* ● Hybrid Working: 3 x days onsite/ 2 x days remote available***## **
* ● Job type:
Permanent, full-time
*** 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: to bring health in people’s hands by
** making self-care as simple as it should be
** for over half a billion consumers worldwide.

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 specialised science and innovation development centers. Through our unique and balanced portfolio of more than 100 loved brands, including 15 global and local high-growth challengers such as
** Telfast, Nature’s Own, Cenovis & Ostelin
** we deliver our mission.

We are also proud to have been the first, large, pure consumer healthcare company to achieve
** B Corp certification with Australia in February 2025**. Today, with 2/3rd of our global business certified, we continue to make progress towards global certification.

Find out more about our mission to bring
** health in your hands at*
* ** About the job
** The
** Zone Brand Lead
- Whitespaces
** is an exciting and dynamic leadership role within the Health and Wellness category (Vitamins, Minerals & supplements (VMS) + Over The Counter (OTC) medicines, responsible for spearheading innovation of Australia’s biggest VMS portfolio to life for the business and drive unparalleled growth into the future.

By providing innovative leadership and strategic direction, this motivated person will allow our brands to outgrow the category via exceptional team leadership and challenger mindset, delivering consistent and significant innovation that truly delights consumers, while leading and evaluating whitespace opportunities for
*** Opella ANZ.
*** This role has true
* ownership of Innovation
* and is seen as a leader across the organisation with opportunities for regular senior management exposure and global opportunities. Beyond delivery of results, this person will be able to shape processes, operating model and culture as Opella builds for the future.

This role sits on the Brand Leadership Team reporting into the Head of Brand & Innovation on the ANZ LT.
** Main Responsibilities
*** Lead the innovation team to deliver Bigger and Faster Innovation across Nature’s Own, Cenovis and Ostelin. Work alongside the Brand Leads to ensure innovation strategy and projects align with the Brand Vision and Ambition
* Full responsibility for 3-5 year VMS Innovation Pipeline including Portfolio Strategy to drive scale, prioritization and differentiation.
* Full responsibility for delivery of Innovation in 2026 onwards via team leadership
* Expectation to identify segments / trends / formats / flavours / packs / ingredients to deliver growth
* Expectations to collaborate closely with internal Brand teams, Sales, R&D, Development Centre, M&S, Project Managers, Science team
* Partner and influence external CMOs, Customers and Suppliers
* Expectation to support governance process with emphasis on simplification to unlock resources, speed and growth
* Strategic Thought Leader:
Be Consumer obsessed and customer focused to deliver compelling and differentiated innovation
* Deep Category, Competitor, customer and consumer understanding to turn insight into meaningful NPD action for growth.
* Lead internal and external partners to co-create Innovation successes for growth.
* Actively brings the external environment into the business to inspire innovation via partner expo’s, annual NPD reviews and workshops, partnerships and investigating new opportunities in consultation with the Science Hub and Dev centre.
* Represent the VMS category to the regional Leadership team for Business reviews, Strategic planning and other relevant presentations to executives
* Whitespace Lead:
Ability to evaluate and seek new opportunities for Opella ANZ in geographic expansion, segment expansion or brand expansion.
* Inquisitive mind to evaluate opportunities with minimal…