Innovation Leader

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We are looking for an Innovation Leader to make an impact!

About the Role

Working within the C&S Innovation team, the Innovation Leader drives innovative offer creation in the C&S Signaling and Relay product families in Singapore. You will operate with both creativity and business acumen, driving initiatives that cultivate an innovation-friendly culture, streamline the execution of new ideas, and ultimately unlock value for the organization and its customers. This involves identifying innovative opportunities, develop ideas and concepts with the innovation marketing leader and the innovation technical team members. You will guide the team in customer-centric innovation activities, using innovation tools and methodologies such as Design Thinking, Voice of Customer (VoC), and Listen & Discover, across both marketing and technical aspects.

You will lead the team as the Innovation Scrum Master for Offer Exploration and Technology Exploration, working closely with the C&S Innovation project director. When exploration yields positive outcomes, you will prepare the New Product development proposal with the team and the innovation director to transfer to the Product Development phase. Upon a request from the C&S organization, the innovation leader may take the Scrum Master role in Product Development. You will also manage the patent portfolio and explore new patent opportunities.

What will you do?

• Fully understand all the stakeholders and functions involved in the design and development process of an innovative product

• Act as a catalyst for customer-centric innovation, aligning teams around Design Thinking and VoC practices across disciplines

• Guide the Innovation team focusing on creating high value releases within committed time

• Cultivate strong relationships with partners and stakeholders

• Lead technology road-mapping efforts. Identify, acquire, or develop key technologies to maintain or establish leadership in key strategic markets.

• Lead the team to break down features, organize functions, identify relationships (interfaces) between systems/features and propose architectures

• Manage ambiguity and priorities and negotiate tradeoffs for the team

• Ensure smooth execution of backlog within the agreed timebox in compliance with the innovation project process milestones

• Facilitates and lead all the Agile rituals and key events such as Sprint planning, Squad updates (Daily or Weekly standup/ loop-in meeting/ Collaboration/ Short interval meetings etc.) Review & Retrospection and ensures all these are efficient & fruitful.

• Provide progress status and escalate impediments on a regular basis

• Identify, escalate, and help find resolutions to impediments of the team

• Internal Establish, implement, and continuously improve team ways of working,

• Manage patent portfolio and explore new patent opportunities

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

• Engineering degree or a related field

• Minimum 8+ years’ relevant professional experience in product development

• Strategic thinking and planning

• Excellent communication skills and proficient in written and spoken English.

• Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills, capability of managing and coaching people

• Broad exposure to HW/SW/Systems design in one or more engineering disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Firmware, System Architecture etc.)

• Interest in early-stage product development, ability to cope with highly uncertain conditions, and being highly resilient and adaptable

• Ability to successfully lead and guide R&D technology development and innovation initiatives

• Culturally aware, self-motivated, autonomous with Agile mindset

• Capability to interpret technology and market trends as a basis for technology and product development.

• Scrum Master or Cross-functional team/project lead experience

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Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us. IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world. We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one. Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!

• €40 billion global revenue

• +9% organic growth

• 150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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