Senior Manager BU Innovation - Poultry Foodservice

• Own and shape the innovation strategy for the Foodservice Value Added Poultry category, aligned to corporate and business unit goals and feeding the long-range and annual plans.
• Define strategic innovation platforms and identify major white-space opportunities and emerging customer and consumer needs, using syndicated research, trend data, primary research, and competitive intelligence.
• Own the innovation pipeline and its prioritization across near-, mid-, and long-term horizons, ensuring a balanced mix of renovation, incremental innovation, and breakthrough/new-to-world opportunities.
• Establish innovation priorities and make investment recommendations to senior leadership.
• Evaluate innovation performance, ROI, and portfolio health, and adjust the pipeline accordingly.

• Lead the most strategically significant and complex product, packaging, and go-to-market initiatives, from concept development and feasibility through business proposal, approval, customer sell-in, and tracking of in-market performance.
• Influence senior leaders in Sales, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Finance, and Strategy, and serve as the liaison to other corporate functions so that innovation initiatives receive the focus they need.
• Develop executive-level innovation narratives and recommendations, including clear consumer positioning and a clear point of difference versus competitors.
• Drive customer co-innovation and strategic partnerships, working with Sales and Channel Marketing to integrate operator and distributor strategies into the pipeline, improve innovation forecast accuracy, and deliver against joint business plan (JBP) objectives.
• Leverage synergies across retail and foodservice channels to maximize idea scale.
• Direct innovation and consulting agencies and build relationships with external suppliers and partners.

• Lead, coach, and develop Managers and Associate Managers of varying experience levels, building innovation capability across the organization.
• Oversee the projects owned by direct reports to keep them on time and on track, and resolve issues as they arise.
• Serve as an expert and advisor to other Tyson innovators.

• Education: Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• Experience and knowledge: Minimum 6 plus years of experience. Deep understanding of innovation success factors, innovation marketing, consumer insights, brand strategy, and P&L management.
• Leadership: A forward-thinking problem solver and proven collaborator who challenges the status quo to support strategic decisions, and who can devise strong solutions in unstructured situations.
• Communication: Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Project management: Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment and to lead cross-functional teams and direct reports.

Requisition is not taking sponsorships. A resume is required to be considered. All professional team members are expected to demonstrate responsible use of approved AI tools, including safeguarding sensitive information, adhering to company policies, and validating AI-generated outputs. Individual Contributors should demonstrate the ability to integrate AI into daily work, improve efficiency through AI-enabled solutions, evaluate outputs critically, and apply professional judgment when using AI. People Leaders should demonstrate the ability to drive responsible AI adoption, enable effective use of approved solutions, identify opportunities to improve team performance through AI, and ensure accountability for the quality and accuracy of AI-supported outcomes.