Manager, Innovation Portfolio

Job Responsibilities:

• Strategic results: Drive strategic & tactical decisions for I&PD and align resources to deliver key functional objectives in alignment with I&PD plan and PPT strategic goals
• Best-in-class: Develop, oversee and drive continous improvement to become the most progressive, best-in-class, results-driven and capable I&PD function in the Jewelry industry
• Customer centricity: Strive to deliver the best of PANDORA, continuously improve I&PD for timely delivery of new products that capture market trends
• Financial results: Drive to reduce new product development cost in line with budget, increase speed to market and ensure high new production quality
• Collaborative: Openly engage relevant stakeholders within and across functions to deliver results. Take accountability and ensure effective collaboration with all shared services functions.
• People: Inspire teams to be proactive and change agents with owner mentality
• Inspirational leadership: Build a diverse and trust-based leadership team, manned with ideal team players who works as a true team across sub-functions. Embody strong culture of collaboration.

Key objectives :

• Develop and pilot material, process and tooling innovations to bring design creations to life
• Respond to innovation requests coming from Group Design and PD
• Develop PPT innovation roadmap based on HQ innovation strategy & pipeline and PPT identified innovation ideas
• Manage and develop robust innovation pipeline for innovations that exist in the industry / market today but might not be in Pandora
• Incorporate manufacturing-led innovation into new products through close collaboration with global design and merchandising
• Oversee and ensure close collaboration across all support functions to ensure the innovations with best possible business case can be secured for Pandora within IP, BOI, etc.

Key duties :

• Project management Office for Innovation operation and Projects.
• Build innovation portfolio overview
• Moderate and facilitate workshops for innovation teams
• Answer requests from Group Design via PD by developing product innovations and new concept in the requested areas and propose alternative solutions if needed.
• Coordinate with PD to ensure sufficient capacity allocation to deliver innovation development on time
• Lead and manage execution of innovation projects within Brand Process, ensuring calendar adherence and results delivery
• Identify and flag emerging innovation roadblocks / challenges to PD
• Evaluate and input on innovation pipeline prioritization
• Evaluate and input on innovation project timeline and feasibility based on innovation project complexity and PPT capability (e.g. shorter or greater than 11 months)
• Ensure seamless collaboration and understanding between SMEs and the various I&PD sub-functional teams to allow smooth integration of ideas into mass production
• Evaluate innovation project success and handover innovations developed to Pre-production / Production
• Provide input on production issues with new innovation as required
• Coordinate with pilot coordinator to ensure smooth execution of pilots within Pre-production
• Collaborate across support functions in securing the best possible buisness options
• Strategic direction (shared KPI)
• Percentage of successful materials and new manufacturing techniques incorporation into designs.
• Upstream Innovation successfully implemented on time and within budget.
• Standards and manuals
• Average innovation project development lead-time
• RMA %
• Operation/ Execution
• innovation projects / initiatives implemented on-time and on-budget (as per innovation pipeline agreed)
• Innovation budget adherence
• Production cost reduction

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years working experiences
• Having jewelry manufacturing experiences is prefered.
• Solid project management experiences in product innovation area.
• Knowledge in information/knowledge management.
• Good Communication Skills
• Systematic thinking
• People management skill
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Attention to details and multi-tasking skills
• Bachelor or higher in related fields.