Innovation Project Manager

Job Purpose: Drive and manage business innovation to ensure the creation of a
sustainable, progressive business environment, supportive of innovation and
advancement in line with the one dnata business strategic goals and to enable
dnata to be a leader. Lead, coordinate and support departmental and/or cross-
functional teams, focused on identifying and delivering new or upgrading
existing products/services thus leading to increased revenue and long term
business sustainability. Job Outline: Plan: - Plans and executes all
innovation lifecycle activities including idea creation and prioritization,
business case creation, prototype/validation, securing funding, marketing and
launch of MVP and all PMO related activities. - Ensures innovation strategy
remains aligned to business strategy by working closely with the line and
leadership team. - Develops innovation process framework, measurement
methodology and KPIs for continuous measurement of innovation success. Agrees,
maintains and periodically evaluates innovation framework and methodology.
Develops and implements innovation reporting framework in the business. -
Defines and implements engagement model for working with external incubators,
accelerators and start-ups. Lead: - Works in collaboration with other line
project managers to own and drive end to end Innovation processes across all
of dnata businesses. - Builds and maintains relationships with customers and
ensures that their needs are understood and worked upon to meet the SLAs and
enhance customer satisfaction - Leads/supports creation of business case and
financial analysis to enable no/go decisions of all innovation concepts -
Provides mentoring on innovation implementation best practice and promote
knowledge sharing to line management and other innovation stakeholders and
team members. - Leads participation for dnata UAE in all internal/external
innovation initiatives. - Defines and manages innovation risk assessment,
performs a continuous assessment of risks and issues on approved innovation
initiatives and addresses/mitigates them to minimise impact by ensuring
concepts are delivered within the agreed parameters and achieve the agreed
benefits. - Addresses major `show stopper' risks and issues through timely and
accurate reporting and senior management engagement, instigating re-planning,
recovery or termination where necessary. - Provides expertise in negotiating
appropriate contract terms/reviewing contracts before signature to ensure
deliverables and commitments are aligned to our standards. - Leverages and
builds synergies across all departments under one dnata to maximize
productivity and provide the best opportunities for success. Ensures that all
innovation project team members are working towards a common goal with a
common purpose. - Provides weekly status updates to all stakeholders to ensure
alignment with project objectives. - Monitors the financial performance of
projects against budgets Execute: - Facilitates ‎3-‎5 idea generation/ problem
identification by working with key stakeholders and experts (both internal &
external). - Provides mentorship to line to empower business growth,
profitability and productivity through innovation. - Collaborates with
internal functions (e.g. Innovation lab,) and external experts to identify
innovation areas/opportunities in/out the industry (i.e. logistics and
transportation industry) to be included in annual innovation plan. - Delivers
projects/programs (non-innovation) to scope, time and costs. Initiates and
manages projects through all stages to ensure that their progress, quality and
the outputs in key result areas are consistent with the scope and targets in
the project charter. - Drives business benefits realisation and return
investment by ensuring all aspects of business change and transformation
relating to assigned initiatives are effectively identified, planned and
managed by or on behalf of the relevant stakeholder throughout the lifecycle.
- Ensures compliance to all relevant safety policies, procedures and controls
across the department, though all innovations to guarantee employee safety,
legislative compliance and a responsible environmental attitude.
Qualifications & Experience: - Bachelor's degree in Business Administration-
Management Experience: - ‎8-‎10 years of experience in Commercial/Sales, IT,
Consulting, Business Development, Project Management , change management
Knowledge/Skills: - Able to manage multiple projects and has the ability to
manage long-term projects which impact various functional areas in dnata. -
Able to develop and lead implementation and integration of cross functional
projects. - Assembles and leads diverse and cross-functional teams, ensuring
maximum effective resource utilization. - Able to successfully manage
substantial project budgets and report progress to executive management. -
Extensive experience in business consulting and new business development. -
Extensive experience in Lean Six Sigma. - Extensive experience in development
of products and services. - Experience solving complex problems. - Extensive
experience influencing others at different levels (Exec, Management,
Frontline, 3rd parties). - Extensive experience designing, planning and
delivering process & technology solutions that enable business
change/transformation. - Expert knowledge in IT applications development,
architecture, cloud and distributed computing. - Excellent business acumen and
communication skills, able to effectively present information to an individual
or group, both written and verbally. - Extensive experience of project
management methodologies and practices. - Demonstrable exposure to: Vendor
Management, Change Management implementation & planning, Business analysis. -
Budget and Cost Control Knowledge. - Management Skills. - Safety Awareness.
Salary & Benefits: Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-
free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted
flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an
excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits,
life insurance and more.