Vacancy "Innovation Manager" Do You Have What It Takes?
I just got headhunted for a role as an Innovation Manager at a large multinational --- it got me thinking: what are the core skills to manage innovation in a large team? I thought I'd put together a job description.
Responsibilities:
- The position is built around a team of unconventional people who find and fund exciting concepts through an early-stage development process
- Need to navigate through a land for which there is not yet a map (requires curiosity to pursue the interesting without getting distracted by the unimportant)
- Must establish productive plans for novel ideas --- need to be comfortable with ambiguity and thrive on change
- Must create new technology opportunities, new directions for the enterprise, and positive futures for people all around us
- Recognise and stimulate unusual ideas with high potential impact
- Use personal networks to link ideas and people that might not otherwise interact
- Apply unique skills and interests to develop new opportunity domains
- Ask tough and insightful questions
- Provide constructive coaching and advice to projects
- Drive projects through to completion
- Proven experience in the ability to understand wide-ranging, out-of-the-ordinary, technical and business proposals in depth
- Experience in organising and facilitating brainstorming workshops to bring new ideas to fruition
- Experience in working on novel projects and proven ability to bring ideas from conception to completion
- Experience in showing commercial sense, contract structuring and negotiation, and business strategy development
- Proven experience in helping other people turn their ideas into reality; work with multiple fluid team structures which requires trust and integrity
What could you do to build you skills to be able to apply for a job like this is in 10 years?
Share your thoughts, ideas, questions --- comments below.