International Culinary Innovation Manager

Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 32,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.

 

The International Culinary Innovation Manager leads product development and execution of strategic culinary initiatives to strengthen our current business performance and guide future market launches with a focus on Baskin Robbins and other brands as needed. This position will be based in Dubai to support the existing business and future new market growth.



This position will lead and contribute to the development of key Culinary objectives to deliver products that achieve success criteria for consumer, operations & financial goals of the company. This position will play an important part in bringing the International 80/20 strategy to life, including the consumer driven localization of core menu for international markets (80%) and strategic innovation to develop new product platforms (20% when necessary), ensuring International innovation bridges gaps by satisfying consumer needs unmet by existing regional offerings. Additionally, this role will be responsible for developing Baskin-Robbin’s annual flavors of the month and peak season flavors by working with Insights and Brand Experience to create ice cream flavors on the bench and to lead production runs at the local ice cream manufacturer in Dubai.



This individual must be able to navigate and solve for new and complex issues and be able to gain alignment from both internal and franchisee stakeholders as well as communicate effectively with senior and executive leadership. They must excel at converting consumer F&B trends into relevant product opportunities that will drive franchisee profitability. This role will also spend time assisting in Commercialization activities as needed in order to transition menu items from Concept to Consumer