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