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Role: Strategic Innovation Manager – Strategy, Innovation & Partnerships (SIP), Digital & Data Solutions (D&DS)
About the Role
Digital & Data Solutions (D&DS) offers a mission-critical, domain-driven digital business that empowers the energy transition through:
- Trusted data
- Engineering-grade software
- Digital twins
- Decision-grade insights in high-complexity environments
Within D&DS, the Strategy, Innovation & Partnerships (SIP) unit drives growth via: Market insight → Innovation execution → Ecosystem expansion leveraging a build–buy–partner approach.
As a Strategic Innovation Manager, your work will be outward-facing, bridging customers, markets, and innovation – strategically shaping a pipeline focus on actionable opportunities.
- Secure and shape a pipeline of customer-anchored innovation opportunities.
- Translate real-world signals into strategic opportunity spaces.
- Enforce evidence-based decisions for a dynamic growth posture aligned with internal and external partners.
This entrepreneurial role thrives for those who succeed in ambiguous environments, turning market signals and customer insights into measurable business impact.
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Key Responsibilities
1. Customer & Opportunity Pipeline
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Identify, originate, and advance innovation
- Build a pipeline of customer-focused innovation opportunities.
- Design constructive perspectives while ensuring experiments will be supported by relevant users.
- Act as an innovation ambassador—develop long-term, trust-based customer relationships that support experimentation.
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Translate market signals into actionable insights
- Continuously scan industry trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies.
- Define high-value opportunity spaces aligned with D&DS strategic plans and customer needs.
2. Strategy and Growth Alignment
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Ground strategy in market evidence
- Convert insights from markets/customers into actionable strategic input, feeding continuous evolution of D&DS strategy.
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Prioritise customer-driven innovation
- Collaborate with internal innovation labs and business lines to:
- Ensure experiments are anchored in real-world use cases.
- Clarify commercial intent and potential scaling paths.
- Collaborate with internal innovation labs and business lines to:
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3. Growth Strategy Implementation
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Facilitate build–buy–partner decisions
- Evaluate where D&DS should build internally vs. accelerate economically via external partners.
- Advise with a balanced evidence-based pathway to align with growth objectives.
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Scout and evaluate partnerships
- Identify and screen potential partners, technologies, and M&A targets to support inorganic and organic growth.
About Our Domain: EnergySystems
We help transform energy systems for a decarbonised and sustainable future:
- Advanced safety and effectiveness of energy systems through digital solutions.
- Customer assistance in the complex global and regional energy transition transitions, supporting industry and government regulators.
Note: SIP and D&DS activities are collaborative—work closely with Managing Partners, Head of Partnering, and relevant end customers to ensure fresh insights flow seamlessly into action.
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