Strategic Innovation Manager
Posted 7 days 14 hours ago by Jobtailor
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Gloucestershire, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS153
Job Description
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.