Sr. Director Product Management - Growth & Innovation

Job Description

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

YOU MUST HAVE

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

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