Contributes To BG/PG/PL Open Innovation Activities
- * Be actor in the projects selection process: ensure technological watch, detect future key technologies and perform preliminary assessment of identified opportunities for innovation
- Deal with partners: Identifies and selects the best partners (start-ups, academics, laboratories, technology providers), sets collaborative development schema jointly with legal and IP department an provides support to technology scouting activities
- Assess the technology level of the partners, start-ups.
Manages And Supports Collaborative Activities/projects* Manages various R&I projects(P3):
+ Defines the project’s objectives and targets
+ Animates creativity meetings to provide solutions to the identified problems and needs.
+ Contributes to users groups to identify impact of user expectations on the R&I strategy
+ Defines the best tools/process/method to achieve efficiently the objectives (creativity tools, mock-ups, design thinking cycles, rapid prototyping, proof of concept, lab car…)
+ Assesses the requirements (resources, competences, …)
+ Validates project’s milestones with team members
- Validates the achievement of the project’s objectives (deliverables) & Capitalize the projects outcomes
- Ensures Intellectual Property (IP) protection of the innovative ideas (protection and mining)
- Organizes and ensures smooth and effective transfer to business when decided (to P3 or P2)
Leads Project Team
- * Allocate “work-packages” among team members
- Functionally manages project team members: internal or external
- Encourages initiatives and motivates risk taking, and failures acceptance when needed
Develops Customers Intimacy regarding innovation activities
- * Communicates to external and internal (BG/PG/PL) customers
- Collects customer voices from their innovation teams to understand future needs and to feed the innovation pipeline, and also by participating in external events (conferences, seminars, exhibits…)
- Involve the PL and the Platform which will transform the R&I activities to R&D
Promotes Valeo Values, Cultures and Standards (Product, Methodology and Tools)
- * Ensure Open innovation activities are performed in compliance with standard and activities defined in Research and Innovations Procedures
NB.: Adv Dev. and R&I missions may be combined. The Job Description should then consolidate the missions and responsibilities of both. According to the context the n+1 will decide to give the R&I or AD Job title.
