Photon
R&D Digital Strategy Lead - London
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Role Summary
The Research and Development Digital Strategy Lead owns the core strategy workstream for the engagement. This role translates Research and Development priorities, big rocks, challenges and opportunities into a coherent digital strategy, prioritised portfolio and pragmatic roadmap.
The ideal candidate understands how digital capabilities create measurable business value in Research and Development, product innovation, claims, trials, quality and formula-to-factory execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Research and Development stakeholder discovery across the current roadmap, big rocks, pain points and strategic ambitions.
- Define how Research and Development Digital supports enterprise and Petcare Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures priorities.
- Apply Strategic Choice Cascade and Desirability, Viability and Feasibility methods to assess and prioritise big rocks.
- Translate findings into clear choices: start, sequence, pilot, accelerate, defer or stop.
- Build roadmap logic across quick wins, foundational enablers, pilots and longer-term transformation bets.
- Support development of value thesis, dependency mapping and decision-ready recommendations.
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Qualifications
- 8+ years in digital strategy, product strategy, innovation strategy or transformation consulting.
- Experience working with Research and Development, product development, manufacturing, supply chain or regulated environments.
- Strong capability in prioritisation frameworks, roadmap development and executive communication.
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence-enabled innovation, digital twins, data products and enterprise transformation.
- Location: London-based preferred; Paris-based candidates will also be considered.
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Expected Outcomes
- Research and Development Digital strategy clearly linked to business value.
- Prioritised big-rock portfolio with decision rationale.
- Pragmatic roadmap aligned to value, feasibility, data readiness and dependencies.
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