Your new company
A world leading specialist insurance organisation with over 350 years of history with over 200 territories served and 57bn in gross premiums. They are looking to bring in a Senior Manager to join their growing innovation hub focusing on new ideas, emerging technologies and market:wide transformation.
Your new role
A Senior Product Innovation Manager is required to join the team to translate innovation activity (sprints, POCs, discovery work, consulting engagements) into commercial, scalable market outcomes. The Senior Product Innovation Manager will drive a unified, consistent innovation and product development framework and ensure the market receives high quality, commercially relevant support to bring new products and solutions to life.
The Senior Product Innovation Manager will build strategic relationships across the innovation ecosystem to bring new opportunities and insights into the marketplace. This will include contributing to long term roadmap planning, ensuring activity supports corporate strategy and market innovation needs. The Senior Product Innovation Manager will also act as a senior advisor on innovation methodology, market challenges, product strategy and commercial pathways.
The role holder will also provide strong people leadership to a growing team (min of 3). This will include setting clear priorities, offering coaching and development and fostering a high performance, inclusive and psychologically safe culture. They will also ensure high standards of operational discipline, including clear planning, documentation and governance, and will uphold consistency and quality across consulting, springs and partnership engagements.
What youll need to succeed
Strong experience of Product Innovation Good knowledge of a variety of product development frameworks, including design thinking, Lean and other traditional frameworks Leadership experience : ability to coach, mentor, train a team of Innovation Analysts Customer:facing skills : ability to gather customer insights and make evidence:based decisions Experience of running pilots and POCs Knowledge of the Insurance industry is nice to have
What youll get in return
Competitive basic salary of 100K
Variety of other benefits
Hybrid working
What you need to do now
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