Global Manager, Innovation Center of Excellence

POSITION PURPOSE

The Global Manager, Innovation Center of Excellence is innately curious and has a passion for driving new ways of thinking and solving problems.

This individual will influence the business globally and can make an immediate impact through sharing of best practice ideas and methodologies.

The Global Manager can sit out of any BAC office or plant location and will support the Global Director of Learning Acceleration & Talent Development in further embedding Innovation at BAC.

This includes training, tools, metrics and mentoring of the global iMentor network.

This role is also responsible for the deepening of their own innovation and design thinking practice and supporting high profile innovation projects across the organization.

 

As a Global Influencer, this role will have significant interaction across the organization in each region relative to innovation efforts.

This position has no direct reports.

 

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cultivates innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.

Comes up with useful ideas that are new, better, or unique.

Introduces new ways of looking at problems.

Can take a creative idea and put it into practice.

Encourages diverse thinking to promote and nurture innovation:

Communications: Proven record of effective written and oral communication skills.

Must be able to relate to all levels of the organization – from individual contributors to senior leadership team members.

Must also be able to communicate across multiple global cultures and multiple time zones effectively.

Collaborates and Builds Networks: Builds partnerships and formal and informal relationships and works collaboratively with others to meet objectives, inside and outside of the organization.

Draws upon multiple relationships to exchange ideas, resources, and know-how.

Self-Development: Actively seeks to learn more, to grow, to be challenged using both formal and informal development channels, showing personal commitment and taking actions to continuously improve and learn from new experiences, from others and from structured learning.

Organizational Savvy: Able to effectively plan for and facilitate structured innovation meetings for teams that include people at different levels of the organization and from different regions.

Ability to influence others without having direct authority.

Builds Effective Teams: Ability to coach individuals across the organization on innovation principles, tools, and techniques and how to use them successfully.

 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES


* Deployment of Strategy and Roadmap for continued growth of the BAC Innovation Center of Excellence


* Develop and implement Innovation training programs to embed innovation across BAC, including all employee training, iMentor Training, advanced iMentor training, and ThinkDifferently education series.


* Develop, deploy and maintain Innovation Metrics.

Ensure metrics are aligned with objectives and take approp...