ANZ - Head of Commercialisation

Commercialization Strategy & Portfolio Leadership

• Lead the ANZ commercialization agenda to deliver Innovation and OOTF growth ambitions.
• Define and govern the commercialization portfolio, ensuring an appropriate balance of scale, risk, growth potential and resource allocation.
• Partner with Marketing, Insights, POTF, R&D, Supply Chain teams to identify, prioritize and accelerate winning innovation opportunities.
• Drive Innovation portfolio decisions that maximize business growth, incrementality, revenue contribution and long-term value creation.
• Partners with Global Commercialisation Leads across markets to share learnings, identify cross-market opportunities, and help shape the Global Innovation Agenda while championing ANZ priorities and strategic focus areas.
• Rapidly identify opportunities to lift and scale successful global innovations across ANZ.

Governance Leadership

• Own commercialization governance across ANZ, ensuring clear decision-making frameworks, priorities and accountability.
• Chair and lead key innovation review forums, including Stage Gate reviews and PMR.
• Provide recommendations to Senior Leadership regarding portfolio choices, investment trade-offs and resource allocation.
• Establish clear success criteria and performance measures to evaluate portfolio health and post-launch performance.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Influence and align senior leaders across Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales and Insights to deliver commercialization priorities.
• Ensure seamless integration of consumer desirability, technical feasibility and commercial viability across all innovation initiatives.
• Remove organizational barriers and drive timely decision making to accelerate commercialization outcomes.
• Foster a culture of agility, speed and accountability throughout the commercialization ecosystem.

Capability & Organizational Leadership

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing commercialization team.
• Build commercialization capability across the organization by implementing best practices, tools, processes and ways of working.
• Ensure resources are effectively allocated across priorities, balancing business needs, capability development and succession planning.
• Champion continuous improvement and simplification of commercialization processes to improve speed to market and organizational effectiveness.

Portfolio Performance & Growth Delivery

• Accountable in partnership with the POTF lead for delivery of the ANZ innovation growth agenda and commercialization performance targets.
• Drive improvements in innovation effectiveness, including balancing reframe/refresh mix, stickability, incrementality and revenue contribution.
• Monitor portfolio performance and ensure learnings are captured and embedded into future commercialization strategies.
• Represent the commercialization agenda with ANZ leadership and global stakeholders, providing regular performance updates, strategic insights and recommendations.