Innovation Manager

About the Role

The Innovation Manager plays a pivotal role in steering innovation activities within Mediclinic Middle East. This individual leads initiatives such as hackathons, open innovation programs, and bottom-up idea generation to transform novel concepts into practical solutions that promote strategic growth, patient benefit, and long-term sustainability in healthcare.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage innovation programs including hackathons, accelerators, and challenges that reveal actionable solutions ready for fast adoption and encourage creative problem solving.
• Support early-stage innovation by facilitating pilot projects, collecting real-world data, and transitioning successful concepts into operational implementations.
• Collaborate with academic institutions and industry partners to validate applications, foster research, and develop initiatives ensuring enduring clinical, financial, and social impacts.
• Direct development, testing, validation, and seamless integration of commercial or partner platforms into clinical and business processes.
• Formulate commercialization strategies including go-to-market plans, securing stakeholder endorsement, and overseeing large-scale deployments to optimize uptake and revenue generation.

Educational Qualifications

• Mandatory: Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Management, Innovation Management, Health Sciences, or a closely related discipline.
• Preferred: Professional certifications in Innovation Management, Design Thinking, or Lean Startup methodologies.

Experience Requirements

• Over five years of experience leading innovation initiatives, open innovation challenges, or business incubation efforts, especially within healthcare.
• Proven record in organizing hackathons, advancing early-stage innovations through commercialization, and implementing business sustainability projects.

Skill Set and Knowledge Areas

• Competence in visualizing and designing delivery systems for new projects.
• Proficiency with Agile methodologies and design thinking approaches to address innovation challenges.
• Experience with Application Portfolio Management and innovation pipeline tools.
• Familiarity with Project Portfolio Management software (such as PPO).
• Expertise in commercialization strategies and go-to-market processes.
• Ability to influence and engage various stakeholders, including project managers, hospital personnel, and system users, to achieve training and adoption targets.
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies, including natural language processing.
• Awareness and application of ethical considerations and ethical product knowledge.

Additional Information

The role demands a strong understanding of how to nurture a culture of creativity, facilitate commercialization, and promote research and sustainability aligned with organizational strategy.