About the job
The Process and Innovation Officer plays a critical role in spearheading innovative initiatives aimed at enhancing employee engagement, fostering ideation, and executing improvement projects that align with the organization’s business and operational strategies. This position is pivotal in creating business process engagement programs and building capabilities designed to achieve Process Excellence.
By establishing and consistently executing robust processes that yield favorable outcomes, this role cultivates a culture centered around continuous improvement. Additionally, it facilitates collaboration among various business units, countries, and plant organizations to enact localized innovation and process engagement initiatives that are essential for realizing the organization's strategic goals and objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Innovation Engagement
- Lead the identification and implementation of innovation engagement initiatives across various Aboitiz Foods sites.
- Provide support and collaborate with Business Unit and Plant heads to facilitate localized innovation engagement.
- Assess innovation engagement performance on a monthly basis and collaborate with relevant stakeholders for necessary improvements.
- Manage the Innovation Rewards budget, ensuring execution within allocated resources.
- Benchmark successful innovation engagement initiatives and replicate them across Aboitiz Foods.
Innovation Ideas and Projects
- Ensure all ideated projects are documented in AHAgile or equivalent monitoring systems.
- Verify and calculate savings from successful projects at various sites.
- Support innovation projects to ensure their success.
- Lead benchmarking efforts and replicate successful ideas to maximize benefits.
- Conduct research on external innovations that could enhance business and operational performance.
- Oversee Board requirements related to Innovation implementation.
- Create presentations for management discussions regarding Innovation performance.
- Monitor KPIs related to Innovation Performance and promote improvements for those not meeting targets.
Collaboration with Transformation Team
- Drive engagement and execution of innovation experiments.
- Maintain alignment with the Great Transformation Team to ensure cohesive innovation strategies and initiatives.
- Implement the Innovation Maturity Culture Roadmap and ensure necessary improvements are made to meet objectives.
- Lead the execution of Great Transformation initiatives within Aboitiz Foods.
Process Engagement and Improvement for Process Excellence
- Develop and implement initiatives aimed at enhancing process engagement and improvement.

