Job Description
Head of Innovation Hub China
Position type:  Full-time
Type of contract:  Permanent

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!

Position Summary

 

The Head of Innovation Hub China will be responsible for orchestrating and directing a small team of Innovation-focused engineers with the mission of developing new projects, ideas for new products and services, and engaging with customers and partners to create new value streams for HARTING.

The Head of Innovation will drive innovation by fostering new ideas, efficient working methods, and strategic partnerships, while enabling the team to develop advanced prototypes in collaboration with customers and partners.

He/she must continuously develop the pipeline of new innovation opportunities in partnership with local sales.  He/she will develop an understanding of HARTING’s target markets, applications and technology.

He/she will lead and continuously develop an innovation-focused team, set clear goals and expectations, and manage the daily operations and projects of the Innovation Hub. He/she is responsible for establishing external contacts with universities, institutes and key customers and building networks.

The Head of Innovation hub will ensure effective collaboration with Product Management and Industry Segment Management (Business Development) to create business cases for the innovation projects and accelerate the development and market introduction of new technologies.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

• 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

• Ensuring project management within the specified project management framework

• Leading and continuously 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

• Performs other duties as assigned

 

Required Qualifications

- Solid trackable record of leading roles & responsibilities and project development, management experience in a multinational company

-Rich experience of working with global matrix set-up teams

- Master’s degree in a relevant field

- 7-10 years of professional experience / industry experience and several years of management experience

- Excellent proficiency in English, both verbal and written

- Knowledge and experience in automation technology and industrial applications

 

 

 
Benefits:  Social Insurance coverage (APAC), Staff insurance coverage (APAC)
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Company Code:  HARTING (Zhuhai) Sales Ltd.
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Job Location (Short):  Shanghai, China
Region:  China
Position Area:  Research / New Technologies
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