Job Description

Sustainability Innovation Project Manager - London

*Urgent 12 Month Contract*

This is an exciting new opportunity to join a Global Breakthrough Innovation (BI) team as a Programme and Pipeline Manager. This 12 month contract role is essential in setting up the newly expanded team for success, through facilitating the delivery of future-facing innovation solutions that move beyond existing capability and span across Sustainability, Luxury, Wellness and Digital propositions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate momentum around the \'hopper\', the pipeline of 100+ pipeline across Explore & Discover; Build & Validate; Integrate & Scale stages, working with the innovation leads on each project to move through the development process and achieve the targeted ratios on pause, test, proof of concept & launch
• Embed new Breakthrough Innovation process - to enable balance of rigor and agility throughout development process.
• Identify a (tech) platform and mechanisms for managing a pipeline of projects through stages, that is compatible with Core Innovation Navigate process .
• Run regular governance forms to manage decision making and pipeline progress.
• With finance support, manage the overall spend across the pipeline (multi-million), make recommendations for efficiencies, and calculate \'return on effort\' across pipeline.
• Champion continuous learnings cycle to ensure lessons-learned are banked and muscle memory built. Support the culture of \'fail fast/forward\'.

Experience required:

• First-hand experience in managing innovation pipelines with a bias to breakthrough and new to world innovation (versus core/renovation).
• Demonstrable experience at managing a pipeline to deliver results: overcoming barriers and risks to create viable, feasible innovation solutions.
• Significant experience in embedding a new process attention to detail and ability to cut through complexity to help others move forward.
• Deep understanding on how to create the right conditions for disruptive innovation to thrive within an existing established global organization.
• Ability to influence senior innovation professionals to work together to deliver, adept at holding others to account to keep things moving.
• Ability to present lots of information in a simple way, aggregating into to dashboards to support decision making and stakeholder visibility.
• Fully literate in innovation and general programme management techniques: can flex style to suit the job to be done and organization culture.
• Balance of creative and commercial orientation: ability to spot potential in ideas and support innovation leads to commercialise propositions through development process.
• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor\'s Degree

Required Skills:

• Business intelligence
• Planview
• Finance
• Governance
• Marketing

Please send your CV or call Robiel to discuss further.

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