Strategic Innovation Manager

Strategic Innovation Manager

Location: Tel Aviv

Mission:
Organization, coordination, steering and control of all innovation related activities in Israel.
Cooperate across organizational boundaries with internal and external partners and clients to help define innovation strategy for Israel and co-create synergies, accelerate development, launch new business, prepare for hand-over to the businesses, and develop virtual team members to work effectively in an agile matrix set up.
Main objectives:
1. Drive innovation activities in Israel mainly in AI, Robotics and Materials workstreams in order to support energy transformation -
- Define strategy (set of concrete actions) to be implemented so that the SE businesses can
develop leadership in the industry
- Identifying what needs to be focus on based on the innovation centers, fields of action and
ventures requirements. the eco-system manager has to be the "one-stop shop" for
everything related to innovation in Israel.
2. Enable New Business / Market Opportunities -
- Leverage SE creativity & inter-connectivity to bring forward new ideas for SE’s future
sustainability.
- Identify industrial and academic partners and actively manage these relationships
3. Develop & Motivate People -
- Embody & role-model open SE culture and values to the broader community
Enable the personal development and growth of the team members and Innovation
community (R&D as a key path for own success)

Responsibilities and Tasks:
- Identify and define required technology/R&D projects / collaboration / M&A within field of action according to SE strategy and defined fields of action strategy (FoA)
- Openly collaborate in a matrix with main stakeholders (i. e. innovation strategy head, FoA leads, innovation center heads, ventures and stakeholders in the business areas and regions)
- Initiate co-creation and collaborations with internal and external partners and customers.
- Breakdown SE strategy to SE level (and BA) technology roadmaps
- Drive creation & execution of technology roadmaps and projects
- Identify and realize cross-BA synergies
- Drive efforts in internal and external partnerships to capture external funding opportunities
- Identify, strengthen and manage relationships with external partners, universities, small businesses.

Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Engineering, business management or other comparable degree (MBA is a plus)
- Minimum 10 years of related business work experience in R&D/Engineering/ business development
- Minimum 5-10 years proven experience with the Israeli innovation ecosystem
- Profound technology knowledge of trends and related business portfolio at least in one of the workstreams AI/Robotics/Materials
- Experienced in leading cross-divisional matrix teams
- Excellent team player to support and serve the global team
- High flexibility in taking new tasks/responsibilities
- Proactive and solution oriented. Ability to pull inputs, to influence and to interact with interface partners of any level in the organization.
- Additionally, you convince with experience in working on international and interdisciplinary projects, experience in project management is pre-requisite.
- As you act in an international environment, you have excellent writing and communication skills in English
- You are willing to work in a global, flexible team with focus on topics and not hierarchies and you are a self-starter with strong analytical skills.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.00 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits
In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities

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