Innovation Product Manager Berlin Innovation Hub
• Scouted and prioritised strategic opportunities using market analysis and understanding customer needs by talking to customers and internal subject matter experts.• Facilitated collaboration among product owners, ux, ui, sales, marketing, senior leadership, and customers to explore strategic opportunities.• Delivered, led, and coordinated opportunities from identification of problem to prototype development.• Coached and supported Product Owners and Customers to prepare ideas to go through the design thinking process for the development of new products.• Led and delivered high quality internal and customer innovation engagements and work with cross-functional teams.• Developed and nurtured Internal C-suite and line-of-business relationships with product management, sales, UX, UI, software developers and customer organizations.• Effectively tracked and maintained innovation project plan using Airtable to manage milestones and deadlines.• Reported project status and KPIs to internal stakeholders and customers in a timely manner.• Provided Airtable access to internal stakeholders to enable real time transparency of innovation projects.• Represented the Global Innovation Team in strategic events (e.g. Global Sales Meeting, Frankfurt Book Fair, Berlin Innovation Lab Launch).• Proactively supported the senior leadership team with innovation insights as and when required. • Authored key documentation required to support the innovation engagement process as and when required. (e.g. Innovation Pitch for internal and external stakeholders, training documents for innovation managers)• Provided key insights to inform the Berlin Innovation Lab building project