Innovation Manager Robotics & Future Technologies The Emirates Group

Join our Technology Futures & Innovation team, where innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Bringing cutting-edge solutions to the products and services we offer has been key to our past success and will drive our future prosperity. We re looking for someone who can turn emerging technologies into large scale, production ready capabilities with strong delivery practices and operational rigor. You ll work closely with teams across the business while also operating independently to drive outcomes. If you re experienced in scaling innovation, improving operational readiness, and collaborating to embed new capabilities at pace, we invite you to apply and help shape the future of Emirates Group as an Innovation Manager - Robotics & Future Technologies

In this role you will:

• Leading and collaborating with innovation specialists, peer group innovation managers, and other IT and business stakeholder groups, you contribute towards finalising future initiatives, utilising business value, together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and prioritised backlogs.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and service management teams, to ensure the overall backlogs are balanced to ensure a scalable, user experience is optimised, stable, and performant technology product, that continually meets business needs, ensuring NFR s (Non Functional Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured, and cascaded to team backlogs.
• Define methodology for the analysis and response to target metrics and value including recommended improvements, for use during design workshops, with an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption
• Build peer group robotics and future technologies community, identifying and acting upon opportunities for L&D, growth and advancement, whilst supporting the team in the establishment of their community and identity, offering support and suggestions for their growth journey.
• Maintain the quality and integrity of features within their technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies, ensuring appropriate team backlogs reflect any impact.
• Working with innovation team members to identify and capture team driven innovation ideas, consolidating across their peer group for playback to stakeholders
• Working in partnership with applicable product `vendors to evaluate the technologies and solutions through proof of concepts.