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Posted:
12.08.2025
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26.09.2025
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Job Description:
Description
Key Responsibilities May Include:
* Drive the identification, prototyping, and scaling of breakthrough innovations aligned with business growth scenarios and Brambles’ disruptive innovation strategy.
* Oversee the end-to-end venture development process, ensuring each initiative progresses through defined gates from concept to post-launch review.
* Conduct market exploration and opportunity scouting, leveraging networks of startups, academia, and industry partners to identify high-potential ventures.
* Build and manage partnerships across various models, including incubations, alliances, and venture investments to accelerate innovation and platform development.
* Collaborate with internal teams to develop robust business cases for new ventures and support their presentation and approval by senior leadership.
* Define and track KPIs for innovation projects, evaluate outcomes, and refine processes to enhance the effectiveness of the disruptive innovation model.
* Identify and assess external investment opportunities, applying valuation methods and performance metrics to support strategic decision-making.
* Promote innovation across the organisation through training, workshops, and knowledge sharing, embedding a mindset of experimentation and learning.
Major/Key Accountabilities
* Manage partnerships in various forms, including incubations, venture capital investments, alliances.
* Collaborate closely with the core innovation team for pipeline management to accelerate execution and delivery of new packaging solutions.
* Oversee a pipeline of high-impact innovation projects from inception to execution according to established processes for venture development and governance.
* Develop relevant business cases for new venture ideas in coordination with internal teams (strategy, finance, risk assessment) and support presentation and approval by senior management.
* Establish and monitor key performance indicators for innovation projects and pipeline evolution for disruptive innovation.
* Actively contribute to fostering a culture of innovation through training, workshops, and continuous learning and sharing.
* Evaluate the execution and results of each disruptive innovation project, capture relevant learning, and introduce necessary adjustments to the DI process and model.
Key Skills Required
* Focus on execution to ensure that disruptive innovation projects show steady progress as per established processes and governance.
* Three-year experience highly desirable
* Talent to effectively navigate organizational resistance to new disruptive ideas to promote healthy change often over ingrained traditional ideas.
* Positive attitude to actively contribute to fostering a culture of innovation across Brambles.
* Talent to navigate market uncertainty through scenario planning to foresee how technological progress and market trends will shape future opportunities.
* Ability to evaluate and generate value from new venture opportunities to support investment decisions.
* Customer-centric mindset to identify and adopt new solutions and technologies that create shared value for customers.
* Skill to manage risks associated with disruptive innovation investments.
* Willingness to foster a learning environment from failure, driving organizational change in mindset.
* Ability to work quickly and adapt to change, given the rapid pace of technological advancements.
* Visionary leadership to share the innovation vision and manage multiple stakeholders to support business transformation.
* Proven leadership skills to inspire and guide teams through uncertainties and challenges of disruptive innovation.
Remote Type
Hybrid Remote
Description
Key Responsibilities May Include:
* Drive the identification, prototyping, and scaling of breakthrough innovations aligned with business growth scenarios and Brambles’ disruptive innovation strategy.
* Oversee the end-to-end venture development process, ensuring each initiative progresses through defined gates from concept to post-launch review.
* Conduct market exploration and opportunity scouting, leveraging networks of startups, academia, and industry partners to identify high-potential ventures.
* Build and manage partnerships across various models, including incubations, alliances, and venture investments to accelerate innovation and platform development.
* Collaborate with internal teams to develop robust business cases for new ventures and support their presentation and approval by senior leadership.
* Define and track KPIs for innovation projects, evaluate outcomes, and refine processes to enhance the effectiveness of the disruptive innovation model.
* Identify and assess external investment opportunities, applying valuation methods and performance metrics to support strategic decision-making.
* Promote innovation across the organisation through training, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
Major/Key Accountabilities
* Manage partnerships in various forms, including incubations, venture capital investments, alliances.
* Collaborate closely with the core innovation team for pipeline management to accelerate execution and delivery of new packaging solutions.
* Oversee a pipeline of high-impact innovation projects from inception to execution according to established processes for venture development and governance.
* Develop relevant business cases for new venture ideas in coordination with internal teams (strategy, finance, risk assessment) and support presentation and approval by senior management.
* Establish and monitor key performance indicators for innovation projects and pipeline evolution for disruptive innovation.
* Actively contribute to fostering a culture of innovation through training, workshops, and continuous learning and sharing.
* Evaluate the execution and results of each disruptive innovation project, capture relevant learning, and introduce necessary adjustments to the DI process and model.
Key Skills to Succeed in the Role
* Adaptability, active learning, collaboration, curiosity, innovation development, strategy development, empathy, disruptive innovations, emotional intelligence, digital literacy, new business development, initiative-taking, strategic thinking, problem-solving.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to developing a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other protected classes.
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