The Innovation Officer will lead innovation initiatives or projects and ensure that they are implemented timely, within budget and scope, in collaboration with the respective internal process owners or external partners.
Key responsibilities:
Identifies, cultivates, and analyses trends in the external competitive market as well as in the internal organization to support business needs, particularly in social innovation.
Develops competitive landscape analyses for countries, regions, or sectors of interest by analysing and forecasting funder, competitor, and other market trends.
Identifies external and internal innovation opportunities that aligns with market trends and business need.
Utilizes innovation frameworks to help develop an organizational path forward in driving more innovative outcomes for the organization.
Collaborates with the Head of Partnerships and Digital Innovation and other functional teams to support integration of information into strategic planning recommendations.
Ability to manage key stakeholder and client relationships, internally and externally cultivates new relationships to support Innovation and Impact Investing priorities.
Interprets and translates data into written text and meaningful formats, including production of data visualizations (graphs, charts, tables, maps) summaries, briefs, reports and presentations for executive leadership and functional teams.
Updates data from multiple sources within the database system on a regular basis to provide information to management to make strategic business decisions.
Leads project management and coordination/development of work plans, deliverables, and activities.
Ensures compliance on all partnership engagements, adherence to onboarding templates and checklists while maintaining a centralized location for all partnership
documentation.
Translate the innovations into detailed concept document, defining benefits, analysing interested parties, and defining deliverables.
Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenario, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
Lead the project team in execution of innovation projects activities ensuring required quality standards are adhered to.
Maintains report forms, formats, information dashboards, data generators, reports and other resources.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role with proven innovation experience.
University degree in Finance, Actuarial, IT or Commerce.
Project Management experience.
Project Management Certification, MBA will be an added advantage.
Comprehensive knowledge of financial services insurance and investments.
Excellent and demonstrated project management skills.
Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Ability to analyze and interpret data, identifies errors, and prepares reports.
Ability to negotiate, influence and collaborate with others.