Sr. Manager New Business Models & Acceleration | Al Futtaim Automotive | New Business Models

Overview of the role:

What you will do:

Incubation Planning and Deliver:

• Create a funnel of future incubation ideas to develop and commercialise by linking new initiatives with Auto 3 years strategy across brands and markets
• Assist in continuous incubation ideation process to formulate new business concepts with Department Heads and Brand MDs to prioritize the strategic project roadmap
• Evaluate the initial market potential of the defined ideas
• Develop incubation projects vision through workshops and strategy meetings
• Prepare the business cases to achieve the sign-off for the projects
• Work on tailor made auto agile processes to accelerate each of the development phases - exploration, validation, and execution

Incubation P&L management:

• Manage project budget management
• Implement portfolio dashboards to track progress
• Work with purchasing and finance to procure project team and market data requirements

Incubation project & change management (Development and Implementation phase)

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define the roadmap and corresponding go-to-market strategies
• Engage with the internal and external technology experts to determine the best implementation methods and guide them to deliver the most valuable outcomes possible
• Supervise and advise the scrum team to ensure they understand the vision and strategy in sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, and retrospectives
• Engage internal/external market and customer intelligence experts to provide domestic and international market and customer insights to create customer propositions 
• Program and project management of priority and complex initiatives.

Skills

Required Skills to be successful:

• Automotive OEM Experience 
• Flexible with multi projects 
• Consultancy / new business / start up background 
• Hands on and own projects

About the Team:

Working in a fast-paced and diverse environment, reporting directly to the GM - New Business. 

What equips you for the role:

• Business or Finance University Degree - MBA preferable
• 10 year+ experience in strategy consultant, new business, and product/service development within the Automotive industry with P&L responsibility 
• Proven ability in building new, disruptive products/services and taking these to market establishing product market fit. 
• Ability to develop business cases and due diligence activities
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience of working with multiple parties and a variety of services, with proven ability in negotiations with AGILE or other Project management qualification 
• Well-developed oral and written communication with strong ability to network
• Strong interpersonal, team building and negotiation skills
• Attention to details