Step out of your comfort zone, excel, and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.
We invite you to join the ZEISS Innovation Hub Dresden to shape together with us the future of biomedicine. Located at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, we are turning today’s research into tomorrow’s applications – together with academic partners, students, and entrepreneurs. As a part of Corporate Research & Technology, we explore new technologies to build market-shaping innovation.
Your Role
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Driving technology-inspired innovation with an initial focus on the biomedical field, and evaluate and develop opportunities in the innovation sweet spot of desirability, feasibility, and viability, develop and implement a strategy and roadmap for a program to develop market-shaping applications and technologies in close collaboration with the ZEISS business units
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Responsability of a program for the development of a new clinical application in the ophthalmic space
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Managing a portfolio of interacting projects to demonstrate proof-of-concepts for new bio-medical applications
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Initiation, management, and steering of projects and collaborations for technology and application development
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Building and maintaining an external partner network in close cooperation with ZEISS stakeholders
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Providing guidance to students and colleagues
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Participation in an agile team and driving topics outside your immediate focus to support the overall success of the Innovation Hub.
Your Profile
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University degree in life sciences, medicine, STEM, or technology and innovation management, ideally with a PhD
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Profund experience in the development of technologies, applications, and solutions, ideally in the field of biomedicine or engineering biology
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Trackrecord in proposing and managing complex projects with internal and external partners
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Experience in the development of medical products is a plus
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A holistic view of innovation and a desire to take topics beyond technology to market success
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Excellent people and communication skills also with senior management stakeholders
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Fluent English language skills, a hands-on mentality, an open mind, excellent problem-solving, communication and innovation skills as well as a clear user focus
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Passion for innovation and enthusiasm for new technologies as well as fun working in agile, interdisciplinary teams
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Christian-Eric Hohaus, Franziska Thöne-Schramm