In Schneider Electric, everything we do is geared towards advancing progress and sustainability for all-our colleagues, customers, partners, and the communities and societies we serve.
Whether it's through our products, software, and services that propel the digital transformation of energy management and automation, or through our corporate citizenship and volunteer activities, we make a meaningful impact by empowering people and organizations to become more resilient, electric, and digital.
Which is where you come in. Working at Schneider Electric means working toward a cleaner, better world. You are part of a global team built on inclusion, mastery, purpose, action, curiosity, and teamwork, turning sustainability ambitions into actions.
We are looking for Innovation Leader to make an impact!
About the role (Mission)
Working within the Control & Signalling (C&S) Innovation team, the Innovation Leader drives innovative offer creation in the C&S Signaling and Relay product families in Singapore. You will operate with both creativity and business acumen, driving initiatives that cultivate an innovation-friendly culture, streamline the execution of new ideas, and ultimately unlock value for the organization and its customers. You will directlyThis role will report to the C&S Innovation Project Director.
What will you do?
- Fully understand all the stakeholders and functions involved in the design and development process of an innovative product
- Act as a catalyst for customer-centric innovation, aligning teams around Design Thinking and VoC practices across disciplines
- Guide the Innovation team focusing on creating high value releases within committed time
- Cultivate strong relationships with partners and stakeholders
- Lead technology road-mapping efforts. Identify, acquire, or develop key technologies to maintain or establish leadership in key strategic markets.
- Lead the team to break down features, organize functions, identify relationships (interfaces) between systems/features and propose architectures,
- Manage ambiguity and priorities and negotiate tradeoffs for the team,
- Ensure smooth execution of backlog within the agreed timebox in compliance with the innovation project process milestones
- Facilitates and lead all the Agile rituals and key events such as Sprint planning, Squad updates (Daily or Weekly standup/ loop-in meeting/ Collaboration/ Short interval meetings etc.), Review & Retrospection and ensures all these are efficient & fruitful.
- Provide progress status and escalate impediments on a regular basis
- Identify, escalate, and help find resolutions to impediments of the team
- Establish, implement, and continuously improve team ways of working,
- Manage patent portfolio and explore new patent opportunities
What qualifications will make you successful for this role?
- Engineering degree or a related field
- Minimum 5 years' relevant professional experience in product development
- Strategic thinking and planning
- Excellent communication skills and proficient in written and spoken English.
- Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills, capability of managing and coaching people in an environment for variety
- Broad exposure to HW/SW/Systems design in one or more engineering disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Firmware, System Architecture etc.)
- Interest in early-stage product development, ability to cope with highly uncertain conditions, and being highly resilient and adaptable
- Ability to successfully lead and guide R&D technology development and innovation initiatives,
- Culturally aware, self-motivated, autonomous with Agile mindset,
- Capability to interpret technology and market trends as a basis for technology and product development.
- Scrum Master or Cross-functional team/project lead experiences
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!
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