Head of Geovation

4 weeks ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Advantage Resourcing Full time

**Role: Head of Geovation and Innovation**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Location: Southampton (Hybrid)**

**The context for this role**

As Head of Geovation & Innovation, you're responsible for driving the success of both teams. For Geovation, this means acting as a 'CEO' figure of an innovation-services business with P&L responsibility and accountability for the successful development andexecution of the business strategy. For Innovation, this means leading a team of technical experts in the development of new technologies that will drive ability to deliver new products and services, as well as operational efficiencies. You are part of theCommercial Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and have direct relationships with the Executive Committee and the Board.

**How you'll make an impact**

In this role, success will look like:

- Develop, maintain and delivering a strategic vision for contribution and value of Geovation and Innovation
- Leading the development of a culture of cooperation and collaboration across the departments, to build sustainable and impactful innovation capability
- Identifying new approaches or business processes that have the potential to achieve significant return on investment, drive thought-leadership and deliver new insights
- Develop and maintaining relationships with key external bodies, to maximise thought leadership and brand development overall
- Executing investment opportunities and the process for early-stage companies identified through Geovation activities and from internal recommendations and market research. Leads the management of our equity portfolio
- Creating a pipeline of products initiated by start-ups, that can be monetised

**What you'll bring**

You'll have an entrepreneurial mind-set and be comfortable with getting stuck in with everything required to make Geovation and Innovation a success.

**_To be successful in this role, you need to have experience in:_**
- You'll be a master of influence and negotiation, working with stakeholders internally and externally to drive the best business outcomes
- You'll have the charisma and confidence to build lasting relationships, deliver impressive presentations and engage those listening to you
- You'll be a strong leader, motivating and engaging your team to work collaboratively and supporting them with their progression
- You'll be a champion of agile principles and work transparently with the wider team and organisation for optimal results
- You'll be as comfortable with the technical discussions as much as the commercial ones, and be acutely mindful of the balance between technology development and commercial outcomes
- You will bring your external innovation expertise, leveraging your network to enhance insight and understanding and strengthen collaborative engagement across our business

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