General Mills – Co-Founder/Corporate Entrepreneur – BevNET.com Beverage Industry Job Listing

OVERVIEW

G-Works is General Mills’ corporate venture studio, launching and incubating new businesses that deliver remarkable value to our consumers.

The G-Works Co-Founders are corporate entrepreneurs who bring passion, grit, agility and innovation to General Mills as they work in 3-person startup teams to discover new business opportunities. They develop deep empathy for consumers through research, learn through experimentation, and ultimately leverage the scale of General Mills to accelerate growth for their business.

These Co-Founders will identify, create, validate, and operationalize new businesses that solve critical consumer problems in the food space.

We are looking for strategic, passionate, entrepreneurial leaders to join an existing G-Works team as a Commercial Co-Founder. Successful Co-Founders are willing to roll up their sleeves, learn new skills and wear multiple hats.

The ideal candidate has been in a commercial leadership role (brand management, general management, etc.) at large CPG and has been in a business-facing leadership role at a startup (founder, CEO, general manager).

Co-Founder teams partner to:

• Build a high-functioning, high-performing team, motivated by a common purpose and mobilized to achieve ambitious objectives.
• Leverage agile experimentation to learn fast, at increasingly larger scale
• Build and validate a compelling business model, continuously refining and tightening key assumptions
• Define and sell the vision of the business, generating excitement and gaining buy-in from stakeholders including internal investors and, when the time comes, retailers/key customers.
• Hold total accountability for operationalizing all aspects of the business

Some things you may lead as Commercial Co-Founder:

• Lead positioning & branding development
• Develop & manage P&L and team budget
• Build go-to-market strategy
• Itentify innovation white spaces in large markets that are synergistic with General Mills

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• 5+ years professional experience with 2+ years experience in a startup
• A track record of end-to-end execution, preferably culminating in the launch or commercialization of one or more successful products/businesses
• Experience building financial models and managing a P&L
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Experience and passion for working directly with consumers/customers and running experiments which validate or invalidate critical assumptions
• Excellent communication and influence skills
• Strong organizational, creative, and time management skills
• Strong project management skills, including a track record of success leading cross-functional teams to execute complex initiatives
• Passion for team-building, and for mobilizing teams toward ambitious goals
• Tenacity: resourceful, determined; overcomes obstacles and operates with urgency
• Strong collaboration skills; has a “we before me” mindset and builds trust through candid, respectful, productive discourse
• Demonstrated agility and resilience in rebounding from setbacks
• Problem Solving/Analytical skills: ability to synthesize feedback from various stakeholders and determine a path forward
• Proficient in software packages (Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint)
• Some experience working in large corporate environments
• Ability to work standard business hours on most days (approximately 9AM-5PM Central Time)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in a commercial leadership role (brand management, general management, etc.) at large CPG and has been in a business-facing leadership role at a startup (founder, CEO, general manager)
• Food experience at large CPG and start-ups
• Experience raising capital for a startup
• Experience with dips or indulgence categories preferred 

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.