# Innovation Manager

**Company**: Digital Catapult
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £36,000-40,000 per annum
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Innovation Manager plays a key role in our Innovation Practice, managing the execution of innovation programmes and projects. You will support the Senior Innovation Manager and Head of Innovation, ensuring high-quality outcomes that align with organisational goals. The role includes facilitating collaboration, tracking delivery, providing guidance to junior colleagues, and driving continuous improvement.

**Responsibilities**

- Manage the end-to-end delivery of allocated innovation and acceleration projects at the UK Digital Twin Centre, ensuring timelines, budgets, quality standards, and organisational goals are met.

- Apply innovation methodologies,including design thinking, lean startup, and agile approaches,to deliver assigned projects and refine best practice through continuous improvement.

- Mentor, support, and empower junior colleagues, providing practical project guidance as needed.

- Build strong relationships across government, industry, academia, and startups, and facilitate communication and collaboration between project teams, stakeholders, and other departments.

- Resolve day-to-day delivery challenges; identify, assess, and mitigate project risks; and track performance metrics, providing regular updates and reports to management and stakeholders.

- Represent Digital Catapult at industry events and conferences, with a focus on the delivery and operational aspects of innovation.

**Requirements**

- Experience managing complex innovation projects or programmes, with a solid understanding of innovation delivery in technology or digital settings.

- Practical knowledge of innovation frameworks, with experience using design thinking, lean startup, or agile approaches in project delivery.

- Strong relationship-building, mentoring, and collaboration skills, with a focus on empowering junior colleagues.

- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and address project risks and challenges.

- Effective communicator, able to share project updates and progress clearly with a variety of audiences.

- SFIA-aligned competencies at the following levels:

- Business Situation Analysis (BUSA) – L4

- Innovation Management (INOV) – L5

- Knowledge Management (KNOW) – L3

- Requirements Definition & Management (REQM) – L4

- Stakeholder Relationship Management (RLMT) – L4

- Adaptable, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

**Benefits**

- We are in the UK’s Top 100 Best Workplaces and placed in the UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech and Large Organisations.

- Digital Catapult is a Disability Confident Committed Level 1 Employer.

- Excellent holiday package: 25 days annual leave, Bank Holidays, and 3 days between Christmas and New Year.

- Double-matched pension up to 10% of your salary;

- Discretionary company bonus

- 4% of your salary to use towards selecting benefits that work for you, including health cash plan, Private Medical Insurance; buying holiday, topping up your pension;

- E-Vehicle Scheme; Cycle2Work; Tech Scheme; Gym Discounts; Give As you Earn; PerkPal;

- Life insurance 4x salary;

- Free to access EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice;

- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave;

- Hybrid working - with great offices to work from 2 days per week with some roles needing to be onsite more regularly to ensure the successful delivery of our work;

- Investment in your ongoing learning and development with us;

- Company social events throughout the year and free office snacks!

## Skills

### Required
- innovation management
- design thinking
- lean startup
- agile approaches
- project delivery
- relationship building
- mentoring
- collaboration
- organisational skills
- problem-solving
- communication

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