Innovation & Business Development Expert at Ericsson

Description
Lead and drive innovation activities as well as encourage the right conditions for creativity and innovation, with the purpose to create value from ideas within a defined strategic scope, including new products, services, business models, processes, and ways of working. Identify and develop new business opportunities with the purpose to capture value in new areas, typically outside and beyond current core businesses.

Main Responsibilities

• Work with technical experts to help our customer maximize the benfits from the existing technologies in the network
• Work closely with customer teams to develop the next generation of products and services that will drive the customers business.
• Establish a relationship with stakeholders inside and outside the company to promote an innovation ecosystem
• Help define and set the strategy for the teams and ensure there is a robust mechanism for tracking and measuring success.
• Promote and position Ericsson as a leader in the ICT area
• Drive and create new business opportunities for Ericsson by creating new customer offerings and sourcing 3PP partner solutions
• Build a close relationship with customer CIOs and CMOs in order identify business needs
• Promote knowledge sharing and solution re-use across the innovation teams

Typical Interfaces

• Relevant LTs and boards, including strategy, technology and portfolio management
• Customers CIO and CMO teams
• Partners for jointly exploring new business opportunities
• Internal subject area experts, e.g. product, solution and innovation managers, innovation coaches, new business development & innovation

Behavioral competences

• Creating and innovating
• Commercial thinking
• Persuading and influencing
• Analyzing
• Leading and supervising
• Relating and networking

Qualifications and Experience 

• BSc or similar theoretical background
• Business building, entrepreneurial experience
• Opportunity and business case development, and business modeling experience
• Coaching and facilitation experience
• Qualification as an Innovation coach would be an advantage.
• Experience working in a marketing or related role
• Previous Management experience and experience leading teams