Job Description

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Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 2,500 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D center, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, H\xc3\xa4agen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Jus-Rol, Fibre One, Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU. In a world that\xe2\x80\x99s ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future.

What your role is

As we transform EUAU we have a strong desire to increase our ambition for the business. To satisfy that ambition we want to be more intentional on how we grow our business through expansion into new category adjacencies utilising our existing portfolio of brands. We have a clear intention to launch and incubate new businesses that can solve problems and/or deliver joy to our consumers.

To enable this exploration, we are kicking off a new initiative to explore these new business opportunities. We are looking for a corporate entrepreneur to lead this work, someone who can bring passion, grit, agility and innovative thinking as they work to discover and execute experiments. They will develop deep empathy for consumers to understand potential demand spaces, develop strategic ideas to meet those spaces, learn in the real-world through experimentation and then ultimately leverage the scale of General Mills to accelerate growth for EUAU.

As we get this initiative off the ground, we are looking for a strategic, passionate, entrepreneurial leader to help us make this ambition reality. The leader, will run an agile and lean cross-functional team that will identify, create, validate, and operationalize new businesses that solve critical consumer problems in categories which are adjacent to the ones we currently serve. They will also work closely with a newly formed EUAU Growth Board (subset of the leadership team) to drive this initiative.

The ideal candidate is

• Obsessed with solving consumer problems, and with deeply understanding consumer behaviours, motivations, and needs
• Tenacious, resourceful, determined; overcomes obstacles and operates with urgency
• A strong team player who collaborates well with others \xe2\x80\x93 has a \xe2\x80\x9cwe before me\xe2\x80\x9d mindset and builds trust through candid, respectful, productive discourse
• Ability to navigate the organisation and influence
• An avid learner who is insatiably curious and follows the evidence to uncover the truth
• Agile, adaptable, and resilient in rebounding from setbacks. Celebrates productive failure.
• Values progress over perfection
• Willing to roll up their sleeves, learn new skills, and wear multiple hats as an entrepreneur
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Able to synthesize feedback from various stakeholders and determine a path forward

Key Accountabilities

As the Head of Growth X you will:

• Build a high-functioning, high-performing, flex-resource, cross-functional team, motivated by a common purpose and mobilized to achieve ambitious objectives
• Leverage agile experimentation to learn fast, at increasingly larger scale
• Build and validate a compelling business model, continuously refining and tightening key assumptions
• Define and sell the vision of the expansion, generating excitement and gaining buy-in from stakeholders including, when the time comes, retailers/key customers
• Hold total accountability for operationalizing all aspects of the business

What you will bring to the team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the CPG Food Industry
• Practical innovation experience, with a proven track record of creating and validating / invalidating potential disruptive opportunities through experiments and in-market testing
• Experience navigating the intersection of consumer desirability, technical feasibility, and business model viability to deliver profitable growth ideas
• Excellent communication and influence skills
• Ability to effectively navigate across the organization at all levels
• Demonstrated willingness and bias to break away from \xe2\x80\x9cbusiness as usual,\xe2\x80\x9d working differently to deliver results

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for & experience in one of the following areas: 1) insights/consumer research; 2) business development, marketing, or sales

What you get from us

• Flexible and employee-focused work culture
• Equal Employment opportunities
• Competitive package with benefits

At General Mills, we are committed to recruiting ,retaining, developing, and advancing an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of the consumers and communities we serve globally. Come and be part of our team\'s journey. Hungry to Shape the Future.

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