Senior Director of Open Innovation - Beyond Nicotine

Overview:

What your will be doing

• Leading engagements with internal and external partners to identify external opportunities based on company needs. Translating technical information to a broader audience without diluting the essence of the work.
• Working with internal project teams to build Opportunity Briefs. Taking technical requirements, assuring alignment with the business objectives and translating to a broader audience of inputters to improve return.
• Leading the internal process of evaluating potential opportunities outside of nicotine, screening good ideas from poor ideas and evaluating the probability of success and strategic fit.
• Handling and augmenting an eco-system of partners and developers to optimize the scouting process for new technologies based on Opportunity Briefs and strategies.
• Training partners and decision makers across the Organization on Connect & Transform principles, optimal procedures and decision-making criteria

We want you to have:

• Bachelor of Science/Engineering or MBA required. Doctorate Degree preferred.
• 12+ years of confirmed experience working across multiple categories in the industry and working with external companies and leading teams.
• A demonstrated ability to communicate well in large forums.
• Strong eye for business and broad understanding of our product categories is required.
• Demonstrated ability to make technology connections across multiple industries and multiple internal programs is strongly preferred.
• Validated technical project expertise in the development and process scale up of new products
• Excellent track record of partnering with manufacturing sites for product development, scale up and commercialization.
• Experience identifying project risk and development of strategies to mitigate them
• Expertise in compliance or regulatory challenges and requirements directly related to product development and commercialization across complex and diverse business initiatives
• Understanding of GMP and QbD requirements and experience.
• Demonstrated capability to lead large groups of people in alignment with Our Leadership Advantage principles
• Record of achieving results and bringing out the best in the team by:
• Establishing job design and ensuring appropriate staffing to deliver the department’s strategic operating plan and objectives.
• Communicating the department’s goals and objectives and cascading to others, ensuring the workload is distributed appropriately to achieve goals and objectives.
• Crafting an energizing work environment that supports the Company’s high-performance culture while ensuring an efficient and agile organization.
• Ability to negotiate with partners to prioritize work, prioritize resources, provide direction, and develop talent
• Ability to travel 25%-40%

Company Overview: Altria has a leading portfolio of tobacco products for U.S. tobacco consumers 21+. Our tobacco companies – which have been the undisputed market leaders in the U.S. tobacco industry for decades – include some of the most enduring names in American business. In combustibles, we own Philip Morris USA, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and John Middleton, manufacturer of Black & Mild cigars. Our smoke-free portfolio includes ownership of U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, the maker of Copenhagen and Skoal, and Helix Innovations, the maker of on! oral nicotine pouches. Additionally, we have a majority-owned joint venture with JT Group, Horizon Innovations, for the U.S. marketing and commercialization of heated tobacco stick products. Through a separate agreement with Philip Morris International, we have the exclusive U.S. commercialization rights to the IQOS* Tobacco Heating System® and Marlboro HeatSticks® through April 2024. Our equity investments include Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, the world’s largest brewer and Cronos Group, a leading Canadian cannabinoid company. Each Altria company is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing individuals with criminal records, including formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals with conviction records, a fair chance at employment. Learn more about Altria at www.altria.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn