About the job
The Process and Innovation Officer spearheads the discovery and execution of innovative initiatives designed to enhance employee engagement, foster ideation, and implement improvement projects, aligning with the organization’s business and operational strategies. A crucial aspect of this role involves crafting business process engagement programs and capability-building initiatives aimed at achieving Process Excellence.
By establishing and consistently executing strong processes that yield targeted results, this position cultivates a culture of continuous improvement. Additionally, this role facilitates collaboration across all business units, countries, and plant organizations to implement localized innovation and process engagement initiatives that drive the organization’s key strategies and objectives.
Functional Responsibilities:
Innovation Engagement
- Identify and implement innovation engagement initiatives across all Aboitiz Foods locations.
- Support and collaborate with Business Unit and Plant heads in executing their localized innovation strategies.
- Track innovation engagement performance monthly and collaborate with Business Units or plants to enhance outcomes.
- Manage the Innovation Rewards budget to ensure adherence to planned expenditures.
- Benchmark and replicate successful innovation engagement initiatives throughout Aboitiz Foods.
Innovation Ideas and Projects
- Ensure that all ideated projects are documented in AHAgile or a corresponding monitoring tool.
- Verify and calculate savings resulting from implemented projects at various sites.
- Provide necessary support for the successful execution of innovation projects.
- Lead the benchmarking and replication of effective ideas to maximize organizational benefits.
- Conduct explorations and research on external innovations vital to business and operational improvements.
- Fulfill Board requirements related to innovation implementation.
- Prepare presentations for management discussions on innovation performance.
- Monitor Innovation KPIs monthly and drive improvements for underperforming metrics.
Collaboration with the Great Transformation Team
- Drive engagement and execution of innovation experiments.
- Ensure alignment with the Great Transformation Team regarding innovation strategies and initiatives.
- Lead the implementation of the Innovation Maturity Culture Roadmap to achieve set objectives.
- Oversee the execution of Great Transformation initiatives for Aboitiz Foods.
Process Engagement and Continuous Improvement
- Develop and implement process engagement strategies to advance Process Excellence.

