Strategic Innovation Manager

Responsibilities

• Identify, originate and advance customer opportunities and shape innovation:
  Build a pipeline of customer opportunities to run experiments and validate new solutions.
• Scan markets and identify opportunities:
  Continuously monitor industry trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies to define high-value opportunity spaces aligned with D&DS strategic priorities.
• Translate insight into strategy:
  Convert market and customer signals into actionable strategic inputs, supporting the continuous evolution of D&DS strategy.
• Drive a customer-anchored innovation pipeline:
  Work with internal innovation labs and business lines to ensure experiments are grounded in real use cases, with clear commercial intent and pathways to scale.
• Enable build–buy–partner decisions:
  Assess where D&DS should build internally versus accelerate through external solutions, contributing to a balanced and evidence-based growth approach.
• Scout and evaluate ecosystem opportunities:
  Identify and screen potential partners, technologies, and acquisition targets to support partnership and inorganic growth initiatives.

• Experience in business development, innovation, or strategy.
• Proven ability to engage customers and external stakeholders.
• Exposure to innovation processes, experimentation, or product development.
• Familiarity with partnership ecosystems or M&A screening.
• Established professional network within renewables, energy transition, or adjacent ecosystems is a strong advantage.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Entrepreneurial, self-starting mindset.
• Strong market sensing and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Ability to identify and prioritize high-value opportunity spaces.
• Ability to influence stakeholders in a matrix organization.