Business Innovation Manager (m/f/d)
Berlin, BE, DE Wildpoldsried, BY, DE
What you will do to help drive energy transition:
- Identify and evaluate potential business opportunities around the future of home energy (e.g., changing customer needs and emerging trends, optimization of large energy assets incl. heat pumps, AC and electric vehicles)
- Conceptualize, test and iterate new product and service ideas to further expand the sonnen home energy product offering and capture new customer segments
- Manage and support projects around innovative product ideas and business models from the idea to launching an MVP into the market
- Develop business cases for new product ideas
- Design and moderate innovation workshops to identify solutions to problems
- Analyze market, competitor and customer trends to extract important business insights related to on-going innovation projects
- Support in managing the innovation pipeline and overseeing the idea generation and validation process at sonnen
What you will need for that journey:
- A university degree and 3+ years' experience in innovation, project management, product management, strategic functions, business development or equivalent
- Creative problem-solving skills with an innovative mindset and curious about new solutions and opportunities
- Strong analytical and strategical thinking to holistically understand, evaluate and develop new business models or product ideas
- Good communication and presentation skills with the ability to perform in changing and fast environments
- Qualification in and/or significant experience using design thinking or similar agile methods
- Experience in defining new services and digital business models for innovative consumer products, ideally within the energy or residential sector is preferred
- Fluent in English, and German is a plus, additional language skills is advantageous
- Team player and highly motivated to create tangible added value to help consumers on their energy transition journey
Stellensegment:
Project Manager, Manager, Marketing, Technology, Management