Accelerating Sodexo’s innovation journey, by creating an open innovation ecosystem (internal and external) that supports the growth and transformation of our business, by bringing outside-in trends, ecosystem and partners, by leveraging inside-out innovation and collaboration, and by supporting our employees in their learning journey, with the right capabilities, skills and solutions.In my role I am identifying new opportunity spaces for future business models and new tech enablers, creating partnership strategy, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. With our deep knowledge of the future trends and tech, within my team, we design, develop and deliver new solutions and partnerships that accelerate Sodexo's growth, and support our CSR ambition.

• Leading Sodexo’s innovation journey, by identifying the value pools and future drivers for Sodexo and the industry and act on those opportunities.• Leveraging the open innovation ecosystem by putting in place partnership strategy with the start-ups and scale-up ecosystems.• Fostering bottom-up innovation by creating the internal innovation infrastructure and supporting the capabilities, skills and mind-set.• Working and influencing different stakeholders, in different seniority levels (board members to middle management) to accelerate the transformation and mind-set change.• Supporting and cultivating projects and open innovation programs (accelerators) from ideation / scouting phase to POCs, deployment and scale. • Creating, developing and deploying our own digital and data acceleration programs, which provides our employees with the skills and competencies to take part in the transformation. • Managing the innovation budget, including measurements, KPIs and ROI.• Leading an international multi-cultural team.

• Creating the strategy, roadmap and the action plans of the digital & innovation HUB, in order to accelerate the engagement & adoption of Digital and Innovation across Sodexo.• Developing and designing new channels, tools and platforms to increase the engagement, knowledge and up-skill of Digital and Innovation for Sodexo’s employees.• Creating and managing worldwide digital and innovation communities: identifying talents, create collaborations and put together interdisciplinary teams working together on new projects and technologies.• Monitoring and Identifying innovations across Sodexo worldwide, leading and managing POCs from ideation phase to full deployment. • Ensuring the coherence and the strategic alignment of digital awareness programs and guarantee the deployment in expected time and in-depth across regions.• Developing digital and innovation content strategy and processes, to be able to feed and share the organization internally and externally with the stories, projects, initiatives and actions that will support Sodexo transformation and image. • Understanding and mastering new technologies and digital trends in the market and the industry, feeding the decision makers and increasing the awareness regarding booming trends and disruptive business models.

Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve the quality of life, an essential factor in the daily performance of organizations and individuals.Present in 80 countries, Sodexo serves 75 million customers everyday. Sodexo's success and performance are based on their independence, sustainable business model and its ability to develop and strengthen the commitment of its 420,000 employees worldwide.• Established Sodexo's marketing activity in Israel• Design and create The Israel Marketing strategy and work plan• Create and manage new initiatives to increase the Israeli entity BV• Develop new services according to clients and customer's needs, based on Sodexo's portfolio and business strategy, from research stage to execution• Enhancing clients satisfaction by providing tailored made solutions and added value while increasing Sodexo's BV• Design and manage, state of the art technological tools for clients, customers and merchants in collaboration with IT teams• Created Sodexo's Israel sales’ tool kit and value proposition, to align to Sodexo's global strategy• Conduct market research and analyze clients and customer's needs and behaviors, in order to develop new segments, features and services• Manage team of 2 experts.

* Leading the setting of the Company’s Strategy and managing the marketing budget. * Establishing digital marketing practices- introducing new platforms, optimization, media campaigns & PPC* Leading the Company’s market penetration in ‘New Media’ platforms (e.g. Facebook, chat monitoring, bloggers management and word of mouth).* Establishing the Company’s Customer Club from the characterization process through to recruiting new participants, creating the marketing and communication plan, and setting up the compensation plan for the company’s sales representatives.* Leading the market research, defining research needs and managing vendors.* R&D for new marketing initiatives.

* Responsible for budget and strategy setting.* Managing a team of 3 experts.* Leading the Company’s re-branding process.* Managing the business & professional interface with media providers.* Responsible for BTL & ATL, customer conferences, and the Company’s website.* Managing the PR vendor.

* Establishing internal communication & community relations within the organization.* Setting up the Company’s community relations strategy.* In charge of communicating management messages via internal platforms (Web, Newsletter, Campaigns etc.). * Working closely with voluntary organizations across Israel.