Al Futtaim Jobs - Head of Incubation | New Business Strategy & Transformation, Automotive | Dubai (AE)

Job Requisition ID: 104781 

No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives. Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.

 

As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.

 

Come join us to live well, work better, and be the best.

   

About The Role: Key Role Specific Accountabilties. 

 

Incubation Planning

• Create a funnel of future incubation ideas to develop and commercialise by linking new initiatives with Auto 3 years strategy across brands and markets
• Lead continuous incubation ideation process to formulate new business concepts with Department Heads and Brand MDs to prioritize the strategic project roadmap
• Evaluate the initial market potential of the defined ideas.

 

Incubation Delivery (Exploration and Validation phase)

• Set up agile incubation project plan, define the project leads and the cross-functional teams
• Develop product vision through workshops and strategy meetings
• Prepare the business cases to achieve the sign-off for the projects
• Develop tailor made auto agile processes to accelerate each of the development phases - exploration, validation, and execution.

 

Incubation P&L Management.

• Lead project budget management
• Deliver value realisation roadmap and implement portfolio dashboards to track progress
• Work with purchasing and finance to procure project team and market data requirements

 

Incubation Team Management:

• Coach and lead the team of experienced Senior Managers and subject matter expert consultants
• Serve as primary interface for the senior managers: guide them during project set up & execution and be familiar with progress of all initiatives
• Be sparring partner and support for firefighting in case of project roadblocks
• Allocate new projects to the team under the parameters of capacity and knowledge
• Together with your team continuously evolve the way of working and contribute to the overall Al-Futtaim Automotive strategy and growth.

 

Incubation project & change management (Development and Implementation phase)

• Program and project management of priority and complex initiatives
• Gain alignment with leadership and negotiate with key stakeholders to identify and monitor specific and concrete actions that must be taken
• Plan and secure appropriate resources to support various internal functions in an incubation project (marketing, network planning, IT, legal etc.) and drive synergies between these functions to roll out the project in an agile manner.
• Rapid and effective decision making to deliver successful projects and to support your team

 

About You.

 

• Education: Business or Finance University Degree - MBA highly preferable

 

Minimum Experience and Knowledge:  

 

• 10 years+ experience in strategy consultant, new business, and product/service development within the Automotive industry with P&L responsibility 
• Expert knowledge of and experience in the automotive after-sales or sales industry is essential.
• Proven ability in building new, disruptive products/services and taking these to market establishing product market fit. (Start-up experience highly advantageous but not essential)
• Ability to develop business cases and due diligence activities
• Team management and cross functional team lead experience
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience of working with multiple parties and a variety of services, with proven ability in negotiations with AGILE or other Project management qualification 
• Well-developed oral and written communication with strong ability to network
• Strong interpersonal, team building and negotiation skills
• Attention to details 

  

 

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