Innovation Manager – Robotics & Future Technologies

Job Purpose

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In This Role You Will

• Leading and collaborating with innovation specialists, peer group innovation managers, and other IT and business stakeholder groups, you contribute towards finalising future initiatives, utilising business value, together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and prioritised backlogs.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and service management teams, to ensure the overall backlogs are balanced to ensure a scalable, user experience is optimised, stable, and performant technology product, that continually meets business needs, ensuring NFR’s (Non Functional Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured, and cascaded to team backlogs.
• Define methodology for the analysis and response to target metrics and value including recommended improvements, for use during design workshops, with an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption
• Build peer group robotics and future technologies community, identifying and acting upon opportunities for L&D, growth and advancement, whilst supporting the team in the establishment of their community and identity, offering support and suggestions for their growth journey.
• Maintain the quality and integrity of features within their technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies, ensuring appropriate team backlogs reflect any impact.
• Working with innovation team members to identify and capture team driven innovation ideas, consolidating across their peer group for playback to stakeholders
• Working in partnership with applicable product `vendors’ to evaluate the technologies and solutions through proof of concepts.

Qualifications & Skills You’ll Need To Have

• Bachelor's degree specialising in mechatronics and 8+ years’ experience in product in a ‘team facing’ capacity
• Experience building, delivering and supporting robotics, AI and automation systems including hardware or software robotics
• 3 to 5 years practical experience of working as a project manager, with proven record of driving discernible ideation, change and delivery
• Whilst not essential, experience of working within an Agile environment, across multiple initiatives and circa 50+ teams
• Possess strong communication skills and be able to enthusiastically convey your Product Vision to stakeholders and effectively influence a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation.
• Leads by example, and demonstrates appetite and ability to grow to a senior leadership position
• A positive attitude and an ability to drive discernible change and delivery, at pace, in a pressurised environment
• Be a part of our Innovation community, focusing on collaboration and identifying opportunities of improvement and growth
• Agile and innovative mind-set with the tenacity to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment.

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