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Lead Innovation Specialist

Job Description

Are you passionate about driving front-end innovation and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to create highest possible impact? Do you have experience with ideating and conceptualizing new growth options?

As Lead Innovation Specialist you will join Grundfos Innovation lab, anchored in Group Technology & Innovation (GT&I). Our aim is to Imagine, explore and demonstrate ambitious future growth options for and with our Business Divisions. In this role you develop and implement best-in-class innovation management methodologies, and in collaboration with a broad stakeholder landscape you work to ensure customer value centeredour concepts.

What is the job about?

Here, you develop and execute best in class ideation setup with senior stakeholders from Grundfos Business Divisions and GT&I, rethinking application of AI towards process and innovation concept enabling fact-based decision making, faster iterations and stronger validation.

Your main responsibilities:

• Lead innovation excellence within Innovation Lab by continuously engaging in the development and execution of innovation concepts that align closely with customer needs, incorporating best practices from leading companies in the field.

• Champion high levels of customer interaction and ambition in concept validation, business model exploration, and impact assessment.

• Explore, train, and implement new innovation practices focused on value proposition and business model development, with a particular emphasis on leveraging AI for Innovation.

• Lead idea selection and concept development through example and guidance, enhancing the quality of the idea pipeline and the progression of concepts. Working with and gradually reducing high uncertainty levels across desirability, feasibility and viability is foundational to everything we do.

About you

With a strong business and customer-oriented approach, you ensure that actions align with the needs and expectation of both. You excel at driving discussions and executing plans when engaging with larger groups, ensuring outcomes and progress are achieved. Your creativity, empathy, and open-mindedness allow you to work effectively with input and ideas from people with diverse perspectives.

Furthermore, we imagine that you have:

• Master’s degree in e.g. Business, Design, Engineering, social sciences or equivalent.

• Several years of experience in innovation management incl. idea incubation processes/methods, and/or new business development.

• Preferably experience from a matrix organization or understanding of different organizational departments and functions.

• Ability to understanding and converting best practices into concrete solutions tailored to specific contexts.

• Fluent in English both verbal and written.

• Willing to travel at least 20 days pr. year.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be instrumental in spreading our optimistic, can-do attitude to advance global innovation and a clear sense of purpose, embodying our six core values, guiding our colleagues in living them day by day, and making a difference in global projects. We support you in navigating your own career and development path.

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

• Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly

• We encourage you to be at the offices, where you can engage, learn, and have fun with colleagues. If you’ll be working from your home office, we’ll make sure you are well equipped with a good workstation

• On the top of it, flexible working hours and up to 3 days’ additional paid leave for volunteering

• Annual bonuses, health insurance, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programs.

Do you want to learn more?

If you have questions or would like to know more about this position, please contact Head of Innovation Lab, Henrik Juul Nielsen at Hjuulnielsen@grundfos.com .

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume by clicking “Apply”.

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We look forward to hearing from you.

Information at a Glance

Job details

Application deadline:

Workplace: Onsite Position

Job Location: Bjerringbro, Midtjylland, Denmark

Contract Type: Full-Time

Employment Type: Regular