Global New Product Manager - JDTW/Jack Daniels Super Premium

CURRENT EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS, AND AGENCY PARTNERS: If you currently work for Brown-Forman, please apply by clicking the Careers icon on the Workday portal. For best results, use Google Chrome to view this page. Meaningful Work From Day One: The Global Product Manager, Jack Daniel’s is an integral role within the Portfolio Strategy & Development Team, supporting both Full Strength and RTD. In this highly collaborative role, you will act as a key partner, brand steward, and primary marketing voice across core internal forums—blending organizational rigor with exceptional stakeholder management to bring innovation, renovation, and geographic expansion ambitions to life while protecting trademark equity. This role supports the entire Portfolio Strategy & Development team and works closely with leaders across the ePMO, Production, Design, and Supply Chain functions to ensure brand growth goals are achieved.  What You Can Expect: Innovation Execution Brand Liaison to EPMO: Act as the primary bridge between Global Portfolio & Strategy Team and the EPMO team. Ensures brand intent, scope, and strategic objectives are accurately translated into project plans. Portfolio Updates & Alignment:  Represents the Portfolio team throughout the development process for new products, packaging updates, and geographic expansion projects, serving as the decisive brand voice to keep launches on time and within scope. Facilitates transparent, cross-functional communication regarding project status, milestone risks, and timing updates to the portfolio team. Product Readiness & Compliance: Ensures that legal, regulatory, and packaging design requirements are satisfied across global markets. Portfolio Strategy Execution: Delivers dedicated operational and marketing support across the full portfolio team, playing a critical role in bringing overall portfolio strategy to life through seamless execution.  Innovation planning and participation in the Jack Daniel's Global Innovation Council: Play a key role as a member of the Jack Daniel's Global Innovation Council, attending cross-functional Global Innovation meetings with the distilling and production teams in Lynchburg. This role will be responsible for ensuring alignment on timing, quantities, and details of upcoming releases, as well as building the innovation pipeline for the future. Innovation Calendar and Communication: Manage the Innovation calendar and communicate updates to cross-functional partners, including commercial and marketing teams within Regions. Global Marketing Operations & IBP Alignment Brand Stewardship: Ensure new innovation and packaging renovation projects, as well as current portfolio management, consistently protects Jack Daniel’s trademark equity and aligns with overarching brand positioning. IBP Brand Representation: On behalf of the Portfolio team, leads the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, ensuring brand priorities and commercial demand,  directly inform Step 1 IBP, global supply chain planning, raw material procurement, and production scheduling. Global Allocation Management: Direct end-to-end global allocation processes in partnership with the IBP team. Collaborate with the broader portfolio team to evaluate demand models, historical performance, and supply limits against strategic brand priorities to set volume allocations—dynamically reallocating stock, tracking market pull-through, and flagging risks and opportunities for high-demand expressions. End-to-End SKU Lifecycle Management: Drive cross-functional SKU management from initiation through retirement across global expressions, negotiating and executing phase-in/phase-out timelines for new offerings, packaging renovations, and line extensions. Inventory Optimization: Partner with Production, Supply Chain, and Finance to monitor inventory and Slow-Moving/Obsolete Goods (SMOG). Make brand-led operational decisions to smooth packaging transitions, optimize working capital, and minimize financial