Manager-Innovation

 Job  
The Innovation and Research Team is a Central team which works horizontally across Titan\u2019s business divisions. Our team builds the innovation pipeline of wicked challenges and opportunities together with the business teams, and leverages various technologies and skills to capitalize on them. Innovation Business Partners are the custodians of the Innovation portfolio for specific customer groups. They work with the customer groups to identify and prioritize the right set of wicked challenges and opportunity spaces- and thereafter manage the innovation (project) life-cycle. They have to work closely with customer groups, CoEs, and external solution providers to ensure that the innovation transitions smoothly from one IRL (Innovation Readiness Level) to the next. This particular Innovation Manager would work 2 different customer groups within Titan. Deliverables and Task include:1.Understanding Business -\u2022Interact with leaders of the customer groups as their key personnel to understand their needs and priorities.\u2022Participate in various business forums such as Monthly Reviews to comprehend the overall business context, results and plans.\u2022Conduct primary and secondary research to understand the industry context better, and in particular key trends and opportunity spaces of relevance\u2022Participate in various external forums which share relevant industry insights.\u2022Share relevant learnings from the industry context with our technology teams which would help to develop deeper or diverse skills for businesses2.Portfolio Management-\u2022Based on the above business understanding, the innovation manager must build the innovation portfolio (challenges and opportunities) as well as review it regularly with the business team\u2022Represent customer needs to our technology centers of excellence (CoEs) and pitching our CoE capabilities to our customers effectively.\u2022Conduct impact assessment, effort assessment and accordingly set the priority as well as roadmap for projects; balancing customer priorities as well as CoE bandwidth and capabilities.3.Innovation (Project) Life-Cycle Management-\u2022Understand projects by preliminary conversations with key stakeholders.\u2022Complete scoping of the project including inclusions, boundaries, timelines, resourcing requirements and so on.\u2022Identification of Root Cause(s), Mapping Processes and Stakeholder Expectations, and Gathering insights- Development of Concept\u2022Based on insights, partnering with the appropriate solution provider; possible avenues include CoEs, Start-Ups, Academia, Tata Companies or a combination\u2022Enabling smooth transitions from pilots to roll-outthrough advocacy; Maximizing ROI of Innovations by establishing use cases for multiple functions as well as other businesses\u2022Regular monitoring to ensure adherence to plans and take corrective actions in case of any deviations; minimizing gap between envisioned and actual business impact4.Innovation Solutions-\u2022Acting as an Innovations solution provider for select projects (opportunity spaces) which are business or techno-business in nature\u2022Application of Innovation tools and techniques as well as business acumen for delivery of projects and successful transition across phases Work Experience  
Qualifications and Experience required:-Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Commerce and Master\u2019s degree in Business Management-1-2 Years of Relevant work experience- could be in any business oriented domain-Prior Experience and Inclination towards our categories of products, through previous part-time or full-time workDesired skills:-Entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to handle uncertainty-Ability to empathize with stakeholders and influence people-Ability to effectively manage multiple projects with competing priorities-Ability to foster a strong collaborative spirit internally and externally-Ability to think critically; strong business acumen