We're the team helping Arnott's win in Asia. Campbell Malaysia is the Asia hub for The Arnott's Group, based in Kuala Lumpur, shaping strategy and building our footprint across the region.
We're behind brands found in real kitchens and real snack drawers, from Campbell's and Prego to Kimball & Cheong Chan, plus Swanson, GoodTime, and Nyam Nyam. We're also part of the Arnott's family that includes icons like Tim Tam, Shapes, and Farm Bake Cookies.
Summary of the role:
As Head of Innovation in a Global-market setup, you'll lead the end-to-end innovation agenda across product and packaging, setting the long-term innovation roadmap with Commercial, building a robust pipeline, and ensuring ideas are consumer-relevant, technically feasible, scalable, and delivered to market with strong governance and pace.
What you'll be doing:
- Innovation strategy & pipeline: build a balanced pipeline (renovation, incremental, breakthrough, transformational), and guide complex problem-solving from development through commercialization.
- Cross-functional delivery & scale-up: partner Marketing/ Supply Chain/ Quality/ Procurement/ Finance/ PMO and external collaborators to manage risk, readiness, resources, and fast handover to launch.
- Capability & culture building: develop a high-performing innovation team, drive experimentation and rapid prototyping, and embed best-practice ways of working to accelerate time-to-market without sacrificing rigor.
- External innovation & leadership contribution: build partnerships with suppliers/ start-ups/ research institutions, strengthen sensory/ culinary/ formulation/ packaging capabilities, and contribute as a key leader in the M&B R&D leadership team.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, or related technical field.
- At least 12 years in R&D leadership within food/ FMCG/ CPG (or adjacent), with a strong track record of successful commercialization.
- Deep expertise in product development, food systems, ingredient and packaging science, sensory, and manufacturing technologies.
- Experience leveraging open innovation ecosystems and external technology partnerships.
Why join us
Shape the innovation roadmap and build the pipeline that drives the next wave of Meals & Beverage growth across global markets.
