Your Role
About us At Zeiss Digital Partners (ZDP), we have a clear goal: Enabling and accelerating the digital transformation of ZEISS @speed and @scale. We develop digital solutions jointly with the ZEISS business units and accelerate innovation that delivers a future value for our customers and our company. Digital Business Innovation within ZDP is a cross-functional team that builds digital solutions, implements new business models, and drives strategic digital programs. We apply customer-centric methodologies like Design Thinking and Voice of the Customer and combine those with our business and strategy acumen. Join us as a Manager for Digital Technology Innovation, driving and coordinating our efforts to ignite a technology push from digital trends at ZEISS with the Digital Technology Trend Radar. Focused on customer-facing, digital technologies emerging in the market, you will drive scouting activities, qualify use-cases for relevance and finally build strong Proof-of-Concepts and MVPs that bring value to the strategic business units of ZEISS. Your role
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Lead the Digital Technology Trend Radar (DTTR) activities to discover new digital technologies, evaluate them and make them usable for the ZEISS businesses
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Establish, drive, and continuously review and improve the DTTR process - from identification to the adoption of MVPs
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Establish and maintain a trend radar visualization, mapping relevant trends and technologies
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Coach and coordinate the technology teams performing the assessment of trends & technologies – they will be staffed with experts from ZEISS Digital Partners and further ZEISS units
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Perform and manage technology qualification/ assessment projects up to PoC stage together with the technology teams
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Prepare steering committee stage gate decisions together with the expert teams, based on a technology’s feasibility, viability, and desirability
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Ensure that the tech radar is well aligned with the needs and strategies of ZEISS’s different business units and that there is a smooth hand-over for the selected technologies
Your Profile
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Excellent university degree, preferably in computer science, informatics, engineering, natural sciences or business
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Experience driving an innovation process, preferably in a B2B manufacturing (e.g., medical technology) or tech industry context
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5+ years of work experience in the digital tech field, for example in digital technology scouting, trend research, innovation management or in an R&D function close to the business
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Experience in the software development/ implementation context, preferably with the ability to write and understand code
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Innovation-driven mindset and a hands-on, can-do mentality
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Strong communication and presentation skills, incl. the ability to connect with people from diverse backgrounds – in particular translating between technology and business teams
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Experience in managing senior stakeholders and networking skills
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Fluent English language skills - fluent German is a plus
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Vanessa Reißle