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METCALF BUILDERS INC

Superintendent II

Brighton, CO ยท On-site

Today, under the leadership of President and CEO Bryce Clutts, Metcalf combines decades of construction expertise with a forward-thinking approach to innovation, partnership, and growth. While our ...

Intermountain Electric Inc

Innovation Intern

Aurora, CO ยท On-site

$20 - $25/hr

About this Role Innovation Internship 2027 Intermountain Electric, Inc. (IME) is celebrating 80 ... solutions through our people and partnerships, the IME Way. Through strategic planning ...

Quanta Services

Innovation Intern

Aurora, CO ยท On-site

$20 - $25/hr

Innovation Internship 2027 Intermountain Electric, Inc. (IME) is celebrating 80 years of powering ... solutions through our people and partnerships, the IME Way. Through strategic planning ...

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Acuity Brands

Director, Strategic Sourcing

Boulder, CO ยท On-site

Develop and execute a Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) framework that drives supplier performance, innovation partnership, and mutual value creation. Lead quarterly and annual business reviews ...

METCALF BUILDERS INC

Superintendent I

Brighton, CO ยท On-site

Today, under the leadership of President and CEO Bryce Clutts, Metcalf combines decades of construction expertise with a forward-thinking approach to innovation, partnership, and growth. While our ...

DaVita, Inc.

Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Denver, CO ยท On-site

$84K - $85K/yr

... the innovation and investment arm of DaVita, focused on transforming care delivery to improve quality of life for patients around the globe. DVG leverages a mix of acquisition, partnership, and ...

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What is an innovation partnership?

Innovation Partnerships are collaborative arrangements between organizations, such as businesses, research institutions, or government agencies, aimed at developing new products, services, or technologies. These partnerships leverage the strengths and resources of each partner to drive innovation and address complex challenges more effectively. They can involve sharing knowledge, funding, and expertise to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative solutions. Innovation Partnerships are common in industries like technology, healthcare, and sustainability, where rapid advancements are essential. Their success often depends on clear goals, mutual trust, and effective communication between all partners.

How does an innovation partnership typically collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders?

In an Innovation Partnership role, you will frequently work cross-functionally with internal teams such as R&D, marketing, and product development to identify strategic opportunities for innovation. Externally, you'll build and maintain relationships with startups, academic institutions, and other organizations to explore potential collaborations. This position often requires balancing the interests of various stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project goals, and facilitating clear communication between all parties. Success in this role depends on strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage complex, multi-party initiatives.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an innovation partnership manager, and why are they important?

To thrive as an Innovation Partnership Manager, you typically need expertise in business development, strategic planning, and a relevant degree in business, marketing, or a related field. Familiarity with CRM tools, project management software, and sometimes innovation frameworks or certifications like Six Sigma or Design Thinking is common. Strong networking, negotiation, and cross-functional communication skills help foster and manage collaborative relationships. These abilities are crucial for identifying opportunities, driving strategic alliances, and delivering mutual value through innovative partnerships.

What is the difference between Innovation Partnership vs Innovation Analyst?

AspectInnovation Partnership
Role FocusFacilitating collaborations, strategic alliances, and innovation initiatives between organizations
ResponsibilitiesBuilding partnerships, managing stakeholder relationships, and driving innovation projects
Required SkillsCommunication, negotiation, strategic thinking, understanding of industry trends
Work EnvironmentCorporate, consulting firms, innovation labs
Common CertificationsBusiness, management, or innovation-related certifications

While Innovation Partnership focuses on creating and managing strategic collaborations to foster innovation, Innovation Analysts primarily analyze data, market trends, and support innovation projects through research. Both roles are vital in the innovation ecosystem but differ in scope and responsibilities.

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Research & Innovation Manager, Governance

Louisville, CO โ€ข On-site

Danone
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$115K - $165K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement

Re-posted 20 hours ago

Job description

Short Intro and About the Job
The R&I Manager, Governance is responsible for advancing disciplined, end-to-end governance across the North America Research & Innovation organization. Reporting directly to the Director, R&I Digital, Specs & Governance, this role will create and embed governance standards, simplify and standardize core processes, strengthen compliance and risk visibility, and enable better portfolio performance through data-driven insights. The role is critical to elevating R&I excellence, improving first-time-right delivery, and ensuring that product, pack, process, ingredient, and documentation practices are governed with clarity, rigor, and consistency and based in delivering optimal consumer experiences.
Key Responsibilities
  • Governance Standards Development: Create the structural framework and lead rollout of enhanced governance standards, guardrails, and programs across the NORAM R&I organization to improve consistency, technical rigor, and accountability.
  • Drive Standardization, Process Simplification, and Compliance: Standardize and simplify ways of working across key R&I systems and processes, including development briefs, risk assessments, consumer action standards, specifications, commercial hand-over documentation, nutritional and artwork creation, and centralized storage systems.
  • Portfolio Performance Connections: Create visibility to performance patterns across the portfolio to identify opportunities for greater standardization, simplification, and tool/process improvement.
  • Compliance and Risk Management: Harmonize data from multiple sources to enable effective governance and monitoring programs that evaluate R&I delivery against Elevating R&I Excellence programs and first-time-right commitments.
  • Audit and Reporting: Provide monthly reporting, dashboards, and insights to support strategic decision-making based on performance trends and risk exposure across product, pack, processing, and ingredients.
  • Future-Ready Capability: Coordinate governance- and systems-related capability gap assessments to identify future strategic digital capability unlocks and strengthen the organization's readiness for evolving business needs.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with R&I, Quality & Food Safety, Regulatory, Operations, Packaging, Supply Chain, and Digital teams to align governance expectations, clarify decision rights, and drive adoption of consistent standards.
  • Change Management and Adoption: Translate governance requirements into clear guidance, communications, and practical tools that enable teams to adopt new standards and sustain improvements over time.
  • Continuous Improvement: Surface recurring gaps, risks, and inefficiencies and convert them into actionable improvement plans that reduce complexity, strengthen compliance, and improve execution quality.

The salary range for this position is $115,000-165,000 USD. The exact salary offered will depend on several factors, including the candidate's relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and market conditions. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.
This role is considered a "hybrid" position that allows for flexible work, meaning it is a role where collaboration with key stakeholders in Danone Hubs occurs. While you may have the option to work from home on a schedule as agreed to with your supervisor, you are also expected to regularly report to your assigned office location at least 3 days per week.
About You
Qualifications and Experience
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Food Science, Supply Chain Management, Packaging Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • 5-7 years of progressive relevant experience in governance, product development, packaging development, Quality & Food Safety, Regulatory, Manufacturing, or related areas.
  • 5+ years of related CPG experience across product and/or packaging development, Quality & Food Safety, Regulatory, or Manufacturing.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of multiple digital and PLM platforms, along with CPG data concepts related to material management, recipe management, and specification governance.
  • Deep understanding of stage-gate processes and demonstrated ability to lead across complex cross-functional stakeholder environments.
  • Experience applying structured risk management approaches to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate technical and compliance risk.
Core Skills and Capabilities
  • Strong governance mindset with the ability to design standards that improve clarity, accountability, and execution quality, while serving as an accelerator for growth.
  • Ability to simplify complex processes and translate them into practical, scalable ways of working.
  • Strong analytical capability, including experience harmonizing data from multiple systems to generate actionable insights and performance reporting.
  • Highly skilled in digital platforms including Excel, Power BI, and Microsoft collaboration tools.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics into clear, actionable insights for a range of stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated strength in stakeholder management, influence, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Passion for change management and building aligned standards that reduce risk, improve clarity, and drive measurable impact across the organization.
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with disciplined execution in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
Role Impact
This role will help build a more disciplined, simplified, and future-ready R&I organization by embedding governance-by-design into core ways of working, processes and systems. The successful candidate will bring structure to complexity, improve compliance and risk visibility, and enable stronger, faster, and more consistent delivery across the North America portfolio.
About Us, We offer and What's next
Life at DanoneWith approximately 5,000 employees and 13 production locations across the U.S., our vibrant culture and endless growth opportunities are just a couple of the reasons our employees call themselves "Proud Danoners."
Learn more about Life at Danone
Our BrandsWhen you join us, you'll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including Activiaยฎ, DanActiveยฎ, Danimalsยฎ, Dannonยฎ, evianยฎ, Follow Your Heartยฎ, Happy Familyยฎ Organics, International Delightยฎ, Light + Fitยฎ, Nutricia ยฎ, Oikosยฎ, Silkยฎ, So Deliciousยฎ Dairy Free, STลKยฎ Cold Brew Coffee ยฎ, Too Good & Coโ„ข, and YoCrunchยฎ.Our PurposeWe're committed to making a positive impact on our world. Rooted in our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we're proud to be the world's largest B Corp.
Learn more about our mission.
Our BenefitsOur commitment to making the world healthier starts with our employees.
  • Physical Wellbeing: We pay for the majority of your medical benefits - which include medical, dental and vision - with our competitive 80%/20% cost-sharing model.
  • Mental Wellbeing: Danoners receive fitness discounts, unlimited flexible time off and hybrid work schedules. We also have a range of programs that support mental health and substance abuse.
  • Financial Support: We offer a performance-based bonus, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, employee discount programs and voluntary perks.
  • Family Care: We offer caretaker benefits, 18 weeks of parental bonding, fertility, surrogacy, adoption benefits and pet insurance.

Learn more about our benefits.
Equal Opportunity EmployerDanone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.
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