Product Innovation Manager

At Sappe, we don't follow trends — we create them. Our innovations travel from Thailand to consumers in markets around the world, and we're not slowing down. We're looking for a Product Innovation Manager to take full ownership of the New Product Development portfolio across assigned brands, including NPD of strategic partnerships and Joint Venture collaborations that bring breakthrough products to life. If turning consumer insights into market-winning products excites you, let's talk.

What you'll do

• Leverage consumer insights, market trends, and emerging opportunities to develop product concepts that align with SAPPE's strategic direction and drive sustainable future growth.
• Continuously improve and evolve existing products to keep them relevant, competitive, and aligned with changing consumer needs and market trends.
• Collaborate with customers, suppliers, OEM manufacturers, and strategic partners to co-develop new products by leveraging shared expertise, technologies, and capabilities.
• Develop and present NPD ideation, growth opportunities and strategic insights to the management team to support prioritization and business decisions.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with R&D, Marketing, Export, Supply Chain, Procurement, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Finance, and Strategy teams to successfully bring innovations from concept to market launch.
• Own and manage the end-to-end NPD portfolio and stage-gate process for assigned brands, from opportunity identification and project prioritization through concept development, feasibility, trial, commercialization, and market launch, ensuring development quality and speed-to-market, as well as monitoring post-launch performance.

What you'll bring

Must-have:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Innovation, Product Development, Marketing, Business Administration, or related fields.
• At least 4-5 years of experience in product development, product innovation, or related fields including experience managing a multi-project or multi-brand NPD portfolio
• Good command of English (intermediate level or higher).

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in the FMCG or food & beverage industry.
• Hands-on knowledge of market research, consumer insight and product development processes.