APAC Strategy & Innovation Director
- Recruiter
- UPS ASIA GROUP PTE LTD
- Location
- Singapore, Singapore
- Salary
- Unspecified
- Posted
- 29 Mar 2019
- Closes
- 25 Apr 2019
- Ref
- 053324
- Approved employers
- Approved employer
- Job role
- Business analyst, Finance director
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Director
Job Summary:
The APAC Strategy and Innovation Director will be a part of the UPS APAC Strategy Development team. The Director will work closely with the Company’s senior management in developing and leading the innovation discipline, as well as managing a strategic partnership for APAC to include existing work streams and development of forward looking strategic opportunities. The incumbent will report directly to the Regional Vice President for Strategy.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Innovation
- Manage the innovation discipline and ecosystem which includes strategic direction, external collaborations, ideation pipeline and prioritization, and execution of prototyping team.
- Responsible for driving innovations communication strategy.
- Run Ideathon, upstarts and other idea generation efforts.
- Set strategic targets for the innovation function and manage to KPI’s
- Be the internal champion and voice of innovation for the Region driving our cultural transformation and UPS hero messaging.
- Prepare and deliver senior level communications on results and direction.
Strategy Executions and Development
- Manage a strategic UPS partnership and execute to existing work streams.
- Drive the strategic relationship and spirit of collaboration with the partnership.
- Leverage creative and design thinking to develop new ideas with our partner that leverage our joint strengths and customer bases to include business
- Manage cross functional ecosystem of responsible parties to collaborate on the work efforts.
- Critically assess and drive progress internally at UPS and externally with our partner.
- Prepare and deliver senior level communications on results and direction.
Job Requirements:
- Possess a minimum Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in International Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing related disciplines
- 8 to 10 years of experience that includes strategic business planning and development, business consulting and/or related experience. This would include some or all of these elements: strategy development, market landscaping, competitive analysis, opportunity evaluation, transaction structuring, due diligence, negotiation, integration planning and execution.
- Experience in multi-modal logistics industry, investment bank, management or transactional consulting firm, or a similar background in a strategic growth / inorganic growth environment. Previous experience in post-acquisition business integration will be valued.
- Experience in innovation efforts to potentially include work with startups or design teams or new product development background.
- Financial and commercial acumen to evaluate opportunities and build compelling business cases to align to the Company’s long range plans.
- Strong project and organization skills to manage project lifecycles across functions and geography from planning to execution to achieve milestones within expected timelines.
- Have or develop good understanding of evolving market trends, customers, competitive and technology development of the industry both regionally and globally.
- Working knowledge in market research, financial modelling, scenario planning, design thinking
- Possess good quantitative and qualitative assessment skills.
- Must be proficient in financial analysis, modelling and scenario analysis.
- Strong written and oral communications skills, ability to articulate and convey complex information, including presentations to senior management.
- Collaborate well across geographical business units as well as cross functional units and ability to achieve results through influencing and communicating effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization.
- Critical thinker, creative, highly motivated and has a breath of historical perspective.
- With high stress tolerance and can adapt to dynamically changing environment.
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