Global Innovation Lead

2 months ago

St Helens, United Kingdom Glass Futures Full time

**About us**:
Glass Futures is a not-for-profit research and technology organisation, supported by multi-national brands and global companies in conducting collaborative innovative research in glass manufacturing, sustainability, and environmentally friendly projects, made possible by a significant private and public sector investment of over £50m+ over the coming years.

Our Global Centre of Excellence, based out of St Helen’s, provides support and expertise to organisations across the glass sector in their sustainability journey, demonstrate disruptive technologies and generate innovative ideas that will have an impact all the way through the glass supply chain to the consumer, helping the glass industry to achieve its Net Zero 2050 targets.

**Our Vision**:
A sustainable future, enabled by glass.

**Core Values**:
Innovation | Trustworthy | Expert | Sustainability | Challenge | Collaboration | Safety

**About our Opportunity**:
**Core Responsibilities**:

- Coordinate the international activities of the wider group
- Establish and build an effective programme, delivering value to Glass Futures, our members, and partners
- Lead relationships with external members and partners across UK, USA and India
- Build understanding of government support initiatives and funding programmes across India and USA
- Ensuring delivery plan and alignment to Glass Future objectives are carried out
- Provide support with bid funding or demonstrations
- Produce regular, effective reports and ensure robust governance processes are in place
- Track financial costs of projects
- Use Glass Future internal resources to build awareness of international activities with UK entities

**Person Specification**:

- Practical experience of establishing, driving, and delivering innovation programmes and portfolio’s
- Ability to influence people with effective leadership and management qualities
- Sound negotiation and interpersonal skills at various stakeholder levels
- Confident developing and maintaining effective relationships and adapting to working with in different cultures
- Excellent organisational skills and competent at leading cross functional teams
- Comfortable working with an agile environment and able to reassess and adapt plans efficiently
- Good presentation skills, with the ability to present technical and economic findings to a wide audience

**Desirable Skills/Qualifications**:

- Certificate in Project Management, e.g. Prince 2 / Lean Six Sigma, AMP) or equivalent Project Management experience
- Intermediate/advanced level experience with Microsoft Office

**Salary**:
£40-50k depending on experience

**Working Hours**:
Full time, Monday to Friday 37.5 hours - we work flexibly within our core hours of 8am-4pm to support essential work life balance. There will also be a requirement to occasionally adjust working hours in order to attend virtual meetings with organisations in India or the USA accordingly.

**Location**:
This is a hybrid-based role and involves travel (national and international) and to our Centre of Excellence site in St Helens. It is expected that the role is likely to involve between 6-12 international trips per year.

**Holidays**:
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (FTE), pro rata may apply. Plus, additional service days.

**Additional standard benefits include**:
Pension, private healthcare, development support, bonus scheme and team away days.
- At Glass Futures we are all about people, we care about the wellbeing of our people, and we value diversity and inclusion, seeking to create a supportive, dynamic environment where talented and dedicated people can develop their career._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):
**Experience**:

- Microsoft Office: 1 year (preferred)
- Innovation projects: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Prince 2 / lean Six Sigma, AMP or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in St Helens

Reference ID: GF017

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