Global Innovation lead for Transport market

at  Ramboll

Job Description
We invite you to bring your expertise and leadership into play as you contribute to strengthening, streamlining, and reinforcing our Innovation and Digital Transformation organization and focus across Transport. Are you our new Innovation Lead? Click the apply-button to send your application.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IS AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO

We believe in the strength of diversity and know that unique experiences and perspectives are vital for creating truly sustainable societies. Therefore, we are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone can flourish and reach their potential. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and encourage you to contact our recruitment team to discuss any accommodations you need during the application process

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

As the Innovation lead in Transport, you will take a lead on all matters relating to innovation activities in the Transport market and supporting in our Strategic Market-driven Innovation objective. This will include:

• Working together with our Innovation and Digital Transformation Director in building and developing structures, capabilities, and resources & capacity to empower Innovation in the Transport market.
• Creates and leads an open and transparent portfolio of innovation ideas for the market.
• Communicating about innovation across Transport market and run specific innovation initiatives and campaigns.
• Chair our innovation board and drive strategic decision-making regarding innovation for the Transport market.
• Actively supporting the innovation teams and activities e.g., by creating action plans and budgets for technologies and innovations and monitoring progress, value and outcomes.
• Drive Transport’s innovation processes and methods to increase awareness on innovation.
• Represent Transport in the cross-market forum for Innovation & Business development and actively align with the Heads of Innovation in the other markets to ensure knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Contributes to identify opportunity spaces for innovation investments by monitoring market activities and external trends to ensure that the market continuously gain competitive advantages.
• Identifies and engages with start-ups and other entities to keep an overview of market direction, and to also investigate opportunities for acquisitions in this space.
• Monitoring and managing the portfolio for all innovation projects and coordinating innovation activities across all Transport country market units.
• Reporting status and focus areas on an ongoing basis to the Transport leadership team and to Ramboll Group Innovation team.
• Coordinate our engagement with academic institutions and research programs, including following up on Transport investments and disseminate outcomes.
• Work alongside the Head of Automation and the Head of Technology and Digital Design to support innovation initiatives.

From the moment you join our organisation, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills and experience in driving change
• Superior communication skills in English
• You have experience with the Lean Startup methodology and/or design thinking
• You have +3 years of experience working with innovation or related areas
• Well informed about Transport and wider engineering and consulting industry trends, new technologies and start-ups and understand the threats and opportunities.
• Experience in working in a consultancy engineering environment is preferential

Personal qualities that will ensure you succeed in this role include:

• A confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
• You can manage tasks independently, and when needed, you make decisions to reach out for support.
• An external network with clients, knowledge institutes and funding institutions that can enhance the innovation ambition of Ramboll Transpor