Innovation Specialist Emirates Airlines Dubai

Innovation Specialist at Emirates Airlines will oversee the development, management and continual improvement of the innovation office. Work with internal IT teams, business stakeholders and external partners to identify opportunities to address business IT innovation needs thereby improving throughput, idea conversion and outcomes.

Responsibilities of Innovation Specialist

• Develop the innovation funnel in coordination with the innovation channel managers by working with IT colleagues and business partners across the IT portfolios.
• Organize design thinking sprints to identify problems and opportunities for innovation.
• Assess the progression of work through various stages of the innovation funnel by collaborating with different innovation channel managers (e.g. strategic technology partners, incubator start-ups, academic partners and hackathons).
• Provide regular status reports to the Innovation Leadership Team.
• Track and monitor ideas in the innovation funnel assigned to each channel, leveraging the skills and abilities of each and support the progression and delivery as required, working closely with IT Change Managers, IT Engagement Team and the Innovation Channel Managers.
• Identify, develop and utilize the necessary tools and reports (Metrics) to manage the innovation office and the innovation funnel.
• Conduct innovation workshops, training events and presentations. Develop training and workshop materials for external and internal programs.
• Organize and coordinate internal IT and business forums for innovation.
• Develop the innovation brand with necessary metrics of evaluation, including the development of a group-wide innovation communication strategy and the review and development or revamp of current communication channels.
• Drive a positive change in the innovation culture and identify opportunities to develop employee crowdsourcing of innovation ideas including the creation and maintenance of an employee portal/hackathon platform to promote employee engagement and a culture of innovation.

What you will do more

• Work closely with the projects team on developing and executing innovation aspects and scope of projects.
• Conduct research on innovation ecosystem and contribute to potential projects for stakeholders.
• Helping to ensure partners success in building and migrating applications, platforms and services on Emirates Group Web3/Metaverse/Blockchain portfolio.
• Define and deliver Emirates Group Web3/Metaverse/Blockchain product roadmap to serve the best user journey & experience.
• Work with management team for the efforts to research, design, develop and test blockchain technologies to enable Web3/Metaverse/Blockchain platforms features.
• Create performance metrics for measuring relevant blockchain performance aspects.
• Helping to ensure partners success in building and migrating applications, software and services on Emirates Group Web3/Metaverse/Blockchain portfolio.

Requirements for Role of Innovation Specialist

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Management, Technology, or Innovation Experience in Information Technology, Technology Innovation, or other related fields.
• 5+ Years experience in Information Technology.

Skills And Knowledge Desired

• High level understanding of Technology.
• Understanding of the Aviation, Travel, or Tourism Industry.

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