Beverage Innovation Manager
Kerry
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
About the role
This role is part of the Southeast Asia (SEA) Foodservice Chains team and is accountable for leading the beverage innovation agenda across priority customers, channels and markets. The role shapes menu strategy, builds the innovation pipeline and translates brand priorities, market trends, consumer insights and customer needs into commercial beverage solutions that support above-market growth.
Reporting to the GM Foodservice Chains, this role delivers through collaboration and influence, working closely with marketing, commercial, RDA, insights, customer-facing teams, sub-regional teams and external partners to turn ideas into practical, differentiated and commercially relevant menu applications, LTO concepts and activation tools.
This is a customer-facing role requiring strong beverage and foodservice understanding, practical knowledge of customer business models and store operations, and the ability to convert insights into winning menu solutions that contribute to Foodservice SEA Chains growth plans.
Location: Singapore
Key responsibilities
• Lead the SEA Foodservice Chains beverage innovation agenda across priority customers, channels and markets.
• Translate trends, insights, customer needs and brand priorities into menu strategy, innovation platforms, beverage concepts and customer-ready applications.
• Own beverage concepts from insight and ideation through customer tasting, concept approval, launch readiness and post-launch consistency.
• Identify customer menu gaps and build compelling recommendations that grow beverage menu share and improve LTO performance.
• Develop practical recipes, menu applications, selling tools, training materials and activation content for commercial teams, distributors and customers.
• Engage customers through menu presentations, beverage demonstrations and innovation discussions that support new business opportunities.
• Challenge the status quo with customer-led, operationally practical beverage solutions that are scalable in store.
• Collaborate across marketing, commercial, RDA, insights, market teams and external partners to deliver outcomes through influence, ownership and disciplined execution.
Qualifications and skills
• Strong experience in beverage innovation, menu development, foodservice marketing, application or customer activation.
• Typically 5–7 years of relevant experience in foodservice, beverages, coffee, QSR, café, ingredients, FMCG, B2B or B2B2C environments.
• Strong knowledge of beverage menu creation, product application, innovation development, customer activation and commercial selling tools.
• Hands-on beverage application capability is strongly preferred, including practical preparation, demonstration and presentation of coffee and/or other beverage applications.
• Able to translate trends, insights and customer needs into practical beverage concepts, customer presentations and activation materials.
• Confident communicator with experience presenting concepts, product applications and customer solutions to internal stakeholders, distributors and customers.
• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor in a matrix environment, influencing stakeholders and owning progress across multiple workstreams.
• Commercial, creative and customer-led, with the discipline to turn ideas into clear plans, tools and measurable outcomes.
• Language proficiency in English is required; a second language applicable to the SEA region is an advantage.
• Able to travel across the region as required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Food Science, Culinary Arts, Hospitality or equivalent
• Relevant industry certification or qualification in coffee, beverages, culinary, hospitality or another applicable technical discipline is an advantage.
14000 - 17000 SGD
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