Menu & Innovation Manager - DaVinci Gourmet APMEA

About the role

Kerry, a global taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, is recruiting a Menu & Innovation Manager for its DaVinci Gourmet APMEA business in Singapore. Reporting to the Head of Marketing, the role works closely with regional and sub-regional marketing, commercial, R&D, insights and customer-facing teams to develop menu applications, innovation concepts and activation tools that are practical, differentiated and commercially relevant. It requires strong beverage and foodservice understanding and the ability to turn insights into actionable menu solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and manage the regional DaVinci Gourmet menu and innovation agenda across APMEA, aligned with brand priorities, customer needs and commercial growth.
• Translate market, customer, consumer and beverage trends into menu concepts, seasonal platforms, innovation ideas and customer-ready applications.
• Build customer-ready menu solutions, beverage recipes, application guides, selling tools and training materials for commercial teams, distributors and customers.
• Develop structured learning programmes, demonstration formats and toolkits to build beverage application and training capability across APMEA.
• Support regional and market activation plans with differentiated menu ideas, innovation stories and product application recommendations.
• Work with sub-regional teams to adapt innovation platforms to local customer segments, channels, tastes and market maturity.
• Engage customers and distributors through presentations, demonstrations and innovation discussions.
• Track performance and feedback on menu activations and innovation launches to improve future concepts.
• Collaborate with marketing, commercial, R&D, insights and market teams, and leverage Kerry's global menu expertise to raise application fluency across APMEA.

Required profile

• 6-8 years of relevant experience in food and beverage, ideally in foodservice, beverages, coffee, ingredients or related B2B/B2B2C environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Food Science, Culinary Arts, Hospitality or an equivalent discipline.
• Barista-trained, with 2-3 years of hands-on café operations experience preferred, including mixology capability; professional or food-safety certification is an advantage.
• Fluent English; an additional language relevant to APMEA is an advantage.
• Able to travel across the region as required.

Required skills

• Strong understanding of beverage menu creation, product application and innovation.
• Confident communicator able to present concepts to internal stakeholders, distributors and customers.
• Proven project management capability in a regional, cross-functional or matrix environment.