Director* Innovation Hub

Stellenbeschreibung

HARTING stands for strong connections – across the globe. As one of the leading international suppliers of industrial connectivity, we are connecting customers to their digital future. And as an employer? We connect around 6,000 people at our headquarter in Espelkamp and at locations worldwide. Here you’ll find great colleagues, as well as ever new opportunities and innovations revolving around IoT and artificial intelligence. In everything we do, we remain true to our roots: as a regionally connected family business that always stays firmly grounded in spite of our stellar high-tech. Here’s to your unique future with us: Yours!

Our offer for the next step into a new career:

Your tasks in detail:

Encourage new ideas and concepts beyond current products and business & set up and cultivate methods and tools for an efficient and effective working mode
Actively seek out opportunities to support the activities of your team through projects, partnerships, external funding, and other mechanisms
Enabling the team to successfully develop new ideas up to an advanced prototype level in collaboration with customers and partners
Leading and continously developing a team of innovation-focused engineers to co-create with external partners
Set goals and expectations for the Innovation Hub and external partners
Manage the daily work of the Innovation Hub and its projects

Your skills:

Master's degree or Ph.D in a technical direction
Experience in leading a team in an innovation environment
High affinity, experience and interest in railroad industry
Ability to forge strategic partnerships with a wide variety of technical and investor stakeholders; Fundraising and pitching skills in an entrepreneurial environment
Technical business development skills to sell new projects, products, or services
Excellent business and organizational skills including budgeting, program management, etc.
Very good language skills in German and English
Outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving skills