Job Summary
The Sr. Director of Growth & Innovation will report to the Vice President of Product Management & Innovation. The Sr. Director of Growth & Innovation will be a change agent for driving customer-backed innovation across the Aerospace business units. This role will work closely with the Aero Leadership Team, General Managers and Technology leaders. In this role, you will lead Aero-wide Ideation and Growth MOS and be accountable for driving a high-quality, market-backed NPI pipeline. The Sr Director of Growth & Innovation will directly manage a team that is responsible for applying expertise in leading Z21 (Zero-to-First Revenue) and Design Thinking methodologies. This role will be responsible for owning and operationalizing the policies around our end-to-end Innovation process – Including Ideation, Discovery and Launch phases. This role will play a coach to the Product Management leaders, providing guidance and product management training and development to the entire organization. The Sr. Director of Growth & Innovation is also responsible for pulling in sales, business development and customer marketing to foster compelling and timely offerings. This role will play a key commercial partner to the VP/GMs by utilizing qualitative and quantitative data to inform priorities and optimize investments.
Responsibilities
- Creates a culture of rapid idea generation and viability assessment, to shift the boundaries of thinking.
- Collaborative force uniting cross-functional business and technical teams.
- Builds a shared understanding of the business model and value creation.
- Identify opportunities for strategic partnerships and innovating new ways to market
- Identifies and quantifies customer needs through continuous discovery.
- Providing a clear, consistent voice on customer pain points and needs to business and technology leaders
- Generate new business models and go-to-market strategies
- Support Program Reviews and ensuring program alignment with Aero growth strategies
- Build organizational capability through training, evangelization, and process integration.
Qualifications
- At least 10 years experience in leadership roles.
Leadership Characteristics
- Ethics: Highest level of professional integrity and honesty as well as personal credibility.
- Courageous leadership: must have confidence and credibility to coach PM’s & GBE leaders
- Results Oriented with Speed: High energy driver who possesses the ability to take action and implement in a timely manner. Ability to mobilize the organization around the key “must wins”.
- Team Player: Receptive to ideas from others. Shares information. Collaborative.
- Zealot for Growth: Solves problems and sees the world through the customer’s eyes. Aggressively focuses on new opportunities and obsesses over growth. Understands what creates value for customers.
- Thinks Big…Then Makes It Happen: Dreams of the possibilities instead of the limitations. Creative and innovates with agility, iterating, testing, trying, taking risks. Translates the best ideas into realistic, pragmatic, executable plans.
We Value
- Bachelor's degree
- Customer facing, data analysis, influencing and leadership experience
- Experience with product marketing & business case development
- Outstanding portfolio of innovative ideas and commercialized products.
- Experience applying market intel and customer research into new offerings
- Experience with project planning, scoping and execution in a phase-gate and agile environment