Global Director Technology Innovation

Incredible opportunity for the Innovation Guru!   

Remote - USA

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Director

Overview: <p>Our client has added a newly created function to help lead the organizations innovation within topics of next generation products and digital technology. They are seeking an IoT minded professional with a strong tech background to spearhead this strategy. It will be a hands-on role and your ability to explore and create will be a key driving factor to the success of this initiative.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> This opportunity will be a remote office role with travel.
Responsibilities: Assess macro trends, technology innovation data, customer insights and business objectives to identify unmet<br />customer needs and underserved markets to drive innovation opportunities and priorities<br />Perform permanent benchmark of customer experience, Internet of Things and Digital Services across industries<br />Using market segmentation, customer insights, competitive and market benchmarks to develop business cases<br />Build out innovation capabilities and transferring them into the company culture<br />Define the multi-horizon processes to deliver roadmaps that will help evolve the company from incremental<br />improvements of the business core to high impact value creating products with innovative technologies using<br />continuous discovery and delivery<br />Identify new Business Models and Go-To-Market processes with a New Product Introduction (NPI) methodology that<br />aligns all functions of the company for growth and profitability<br />Establish a core technology innovation business architecture that will help the company transform from traditional<br />core capability to new capabilities<br />Identify outcome-based use cases using modern User Experience Design to leverage cloud connectivity, machine<br />learning, artificial intelligence, increased product value from software, digitized user interfaces that are hyper<br />personalized<br />Develop technology innovation governance structure to fit in line with program delivery methodologies<br />Frame, assess and prioritizes opportunities for inclusion in innovation pipeline<br />Leverage expertise with a variety of commercial and product innovation methods (e.g. design thinking, lean start up,<br />ideation, prototyping, etc.) with internal and external resources<br />Establish value added relationships with new and existing suppliers to innovate and co-innovate existing and new<br />offerings with speed to market and optimum design<br />Oversee the complete budget of the Innovation function<br />Nurture a culture of customer obsession, entrepreneurism and innovation.
Requirements: Demonstrated ability to manage a multi-disciplinary innovation function in regards to strategy and implementation<br />Ability to manage suppliers and related contracts<br />Excellent knowledge of key trends in technology and innovation<br />Experience working in a software development and data architecture organization<br />Skill in developing and buildering new business models and teams with technology from product launch and support<br />Skills in computing, software development and software design<br />Analytical and commercially aware<br />Self-confident, excellent listener, attention to detail<br />Ability to work independently and organize own workload<br />Great interpersonal skills to collaborate with a wide diversity of colleagues in other disciplines and cultures<br />Excellent written and oral communication skills<br />Engaging presentation and/or storytelling skills<br />Confidence in delivering business critical presentations to all levels including C Suite<br />Strong inclination to take ownership and ensure others do the same<br />Must be able to travel as needed<br /><br />Bachelor&rsquo;s Degree in Information Technology and/or Computer Science field is a must<br />Experience in technology-driven start-up product development environment highly preferred<br />Minimum 10 years' experience in information technology and business resource management<br />3+ years executive-level exposure preferred