About IT in Nestlé
We are a team of IT professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé’s digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace. We collaborate with our business partners around the world to deliver standardized, integrated technology products and services to create tangible business value.
As an Innovation Manager, you’ll be executing the digital innovation initiatives across Nestlé AMS to ensure that we deliver digital solutions with proven hypotheses via prototyping and forward-looking concepts and investments. You will identify new technology and solutions for a given scope using existing technology or new development and production methods for the IT organization. We’ll count on you to inspire and foster an innovative and entrepreneurial culture while leveraging lean agile approaches.
Key responsibilities:
• Self-manage the product offering from idea creation to concept design, development, and launch to ensure approved revenue/cost savings targets are met
• Build product business cases and define requirements using agile methods such as epics and user stories
• Provide subject matter expertise and conflict resolution to internal and external stakeholders
• Build flexible but structured plans and agendas for managing workloads while promoting goal-oriented ways of working
• Explain and stimulate different innovation methodologies to those at different hierarchal levels
• Scout new technology advancements, startups, and manage pilots within a Nestlé context
• Iterate prototypes to meet end user’s wants and needs
Required Profile:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data analytics, engineering, ethics, or related field
• 5+ years of leadership of experience managing multi-discipline teams
• 3+ years of experience within Digital Product Development or Digital Innovation
• 1+ years of experience in Design Thinking (i.e., UX/UI, BMC, VPC, LEAN/Agile, DevOps Project facilitation, startups)
• 1+ years of experience on AI/ML initiatives
Other:
• Experience working with project/product and iterative innovation management methodologies such as idea to concept to completion, design thinking, lean start-up, or SCRUM is preferred
• Understanding of product development life cycle, focus group management, customer journey creation, competitive research, customer research, etc. is preferred
• 1+ years of experience working with startups, incubators, and accelerators is preferred
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