Innovation Manager | JCM Consulting

Key Responsibilities

Excellence in Innovation

Passionately acting as an advocate for innovation, challenging traditional thinking
Creating a leading innovations unit
Leading agile and adaptive project and development techniques to ensure maximum output of projects
Providing management information on the nature, scope and status of innovation unit projects, and the business benefits gained by the realisation of these projects.
Providing input to the ICT Strategic Plan in the areas of innovation and agile development.
Communicating the monitoring the success of the innovations unit.
Undertaking regular reviews of the unit’s success and adapting plans as appropriate.
Strategy Consulting: Deliver and direct delivery on strategic consulting projects for clients
Internal growth: Strategic support for new division, numerous improvement initiatives and IP

Ensure to interpret business strategy and determine innovative solutions supporting strategy implementation.
Design and model solutions for customer innovation and experience along with similar initiatives variants.
Perform with innovation development groups to conduct insights as well as design outputs to their work.
Manage and evaluate portfolio data and innovation pipeline assisting strategic decision-making and Go-to-Market process.
Design, research, develop, analyze and suggest new marketing concepts as well as strategies.
Manage prime team functions and activities for strategic direction.
Ensure to share decisions’ authority to translate strategies in procedures and programs.
Develop high-performance atmosphere.
Perform as a strategic partner to head innovation of influence change and new processes.
Lead and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types concurrently.
Contribute and influence the strategic direction for senior leadership using informal and formal communication.
Manage and attain customer expectations and ensure delivery fulfill expectations.
Coordinate all cross-functional activities, represent customers internally and collaborate with leaders in varied areas on allocation across projects and resource planning.
Ensure to exercise decision-making and independent judgment while being aligned with customers and management.
Coordinate new product along with packaging plans with suitable contacts.

Finance

Managing the recurrent and capital budgets allocated to the innovations unit.
Contributing to the financial planning and risk management process by producing business cases and financial models to support new requirements for innovation and software development.

Business Development:

Develop and maintain contact with top decision-makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies

Qualifications

Personal traits and experience required

Excellent communication and planning skills
Success in roles requiring execution of multiple tasks while responding to multiple priorities
Proven ability to work with efficiency, flexibility, and good humor
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide array of people from diverse backgrounds. Management of stakeholders and their expectations.
Must be good at managing projects and managing change.
Operates with excellence in mind in all matters, with the confidence to defend/debate ideas
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills are essential
Passionate about Innovation Agency’s mission and impact
Ability to exercise tact and diplomacy in organizational settings
Transparent, direct, with substance
Self-starter, self disciplined
Spark, imagination, creativity