Innovation Coach (Product Manager) – responsible for CE Region
What we offer
- Permanent employment contract
- Our confidence and flexibility in project management (even in your own projects)
- Experience in leading international projects
- Self-development – we have our own online and offline education programmes and an innovation library full of great titles!
- Friendly, informal and time-flexible work environment with the possibility of home office
- Contacts to great people that will be there for your whole (not only working) life
About Deloitte
About the team
Who are we?
We are Tomorrow by Deloitte – strongly passionate, very agile and highly motivated team of innovators – working at a regional level of Deloitte Central Europe - a region of 18 countries stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Each of us unique and so is our mission - to bring the inner disruption to the whole institution. By taking unconventional angles we coin innovation processes, tape on undiscovered trends, and ignite entrepreneur mindsets – all that to build new ecosystem of internal startups.
The core of the team resides in Czech Republic, where it has been piloting the innovation program at a local level for the past three years. Being entrusted with building innovations for the entire CE region we provide support to innovative projects from every member country and all Delloite’s areas of enterprise. As we would like to be closer to those projects and their owners, we are looking for a new team member to be based in Warsaw.
Who we're looking for
Are you awakened by technology and the innovation field? Are you interested in how technology frames our world today and how it resonates with changes in the society and culture? Can you differentiate a trend from a hype and pinpoint the important from the noise? Do you understand processes and strategies of how start-ups grow from initial idea to unicorns? How they build upon a bullet-proof business plan to deliver impactful solutions to customer’s needs?
Well, then we should meet and discuss a possibility of cooperation!
The Innovation Team at Deloitte is looking for a balanced visionary with strong executive and mentoring skills, who would play important role in the innovative transformation of a renowned international company.
Ideal Profile:
Person with inter-disciplinary and cross-culture history having experience from business creation, product prototyping, development, and market launch. Knowledgeable in the technological field (ideas are expected to be tech-driven)
- Skilled in coaching and mentoring, able to explain complex topics in simpler manners
- Able to evaluate accuracy and real-life validity of proposed business models as well as other financial aspects of incubated projects
- An understanding of the full product life cycle, customer-oriented design thinking, and value proposition creation
- Experience in Startup incubation or Venture Capital investments
- Experience in a Startup creation (successful or unprosperous)
- Project management with the focus utilizing agile approaches in software development (SCRUM master etc.)
- Experience with launching enterprise level products
- Depending on your skillset and area of expertise your agenda will not focus only on projects but you will be equally responsible for projects coming from all member countries. Contact with the team will be on a daily basis - through Microsoft Teams. It will be further strengthened with regular short term stays in Prague, to the extend the Covid situation allows it.
Your future role
To coach and provide support to the Central European Innovation projects during all development stages:- Guide Idea-owners from the initial idea into a valid business case
- To evaluate and advise upon the proposed approach and selected technologies
- To recognize potential alternatives and maximize value of the product
- To advise on validity of proposed business plan and financial estimates
- To provide guidance and support on creating of investor pitches and presentations
- To supervise the project development efficiently and thoroughly through pre-defined iterations, project management Agile and Waterfall
- To report back updates to the CE Innovation Team
- Foster the innovation mindset and take active role in building the innovative community within the company