Brambles Holdings (UK) Limited / CHEP is hiring a Disruptive Innovation Manager to drive breakthrough, future-focused innovations aligned with our strategic growth. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end venture development process, from concept to scale, and build key partnerships to accelerate our impact.
What You'll Do
- Drive the identification, prototyping, and scaling of breakthrough innovations aligned with business growth scenarios.
- Oversee the end-to-end venture development process, ensuring progress through defined stages from concept to post-launch review.
- Conduct market exploration and opportunity scouting, leveraging networks of startups, academia, and industry partners.
- Build and manage partnerships across various models, including incubations, alliances, and venture investments.
- Collaborate with internal teams to develop robust business cases for new ventures and support their presentation to senior leadership.
- Define and track KPIs for innovation projects, evaluate outcomes, and refine processes.
- Identify and assess external investment opportunities, applying valuation methods and performance metrics.
- Promote innovation across the organisation through training, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
What We're Looking For
- Focus on execution to ensure disruptive innovation projects show steady progress.
- Talent to effectively navigate organizational resistance to new disruptive ideas.
- Positive attitude to actively contribute to foster a culture of innovation.
- Talent to navigate market uncertainty through scenario planning.
- Competence to capture value from professional evaluation of new venture opportunities.
- Customer mindset to identify and adopt new solutions and technologies.
- Skill to manage the disruptive innovation risk associated with investing in disruptive ventures.
- Willingness to create a healthy atmosphere to learn from failure.
- Ability to work at speed and embrace change.
- Visionary attitudes to share the disruptive innovation vision and manage multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrated leadership skills to inspire and guide teams through the uncertainties of disruptive innovation.
Nice to Have
- Three-year experience highly desirable.
Team & Environment
Collaborate closely with the core innovation team for pipeline management.
Work Mode
This position follows a hybrid work model.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential.
