Senior Innovation Manager

Overview

Role: Senior Innovation Manager

Location: Flexible UK

Salary range: £70,000- £80,000 plus benefits

Role ID: 1820

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Energy & Environment, one of Ricardo plc’s five operating business units, is a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice, and data. With more than 40 years of heritage in addressing air quality, environmental and sustainability issues, our customers value us for our deep understanding and breadth of services covering the entire value chain from evidence, policy & strategy to implementation.

We are currently looking for a Senior Innovation Manager to join our Digital Product Management team.

Key responsibilities

• Identify and assess emerging technology and environmental trends.
• Develop ideas, products, and new propositions within these emerging trends.
• Perform market research, financial modelling, competitor assessments to evaluate these solutions for development within the organisation.
• Develop and own business cases for capital investment for new solutions.
• Assess build vs buy options, including acquisition targets.
• Facilitate workshops and events internally to identify new ideas and solutions for assessment.
• Own the innovation solutions pipeline for progression into product development.
• Develop and implement innovation development ways of working and tool sets within the organisation.

Key competencies and experience

• Experience in end-to-end proposition design, development, and customer testing (especially using agile methodologies) matched with exposure to working in Financial or Professional Services sector(s) previously (i.e., knowledge of the Financial Services Industry, particularly innovative and disruptive strategies would be beneficial).
• Experience in using innovation tools such as: customer canvas, value proposition canvas and business model canvas.
• Experience in using innovation methodologies such as: design thinking, lean start-up, and hypothesis-led approach.
• Commercial acumen i.e., understanding how to monetise new ideas and propositions, matched with an innovative mindset & workshop design and facilitation skills.
• Confident communicating, influencing, and building up relationships with stakeholders up to director level.

Skills and behaviours

• Trend Mapping and Assessments.
• Ideation and solution identification methods and techniques.
• Market Analysis and Research techniques and approaches.
• Financial Modelling.
• Design thinking and design strategy techniques and methods.
• Facilitation and Executive Level communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience in assessing partners and acquisition targets.
• Knowledge of current and emerging environmental issues and trends.

Working here

Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.

Wellbeing and work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that's working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Benefits

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.