VNG - Cais de Gaia, Lisboa - Expo, Lisboa - Colombo
Innovation Development Manager
YOUR MISSION
This is a strategic role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology, business, and creativity. You’ll help define innovation priorities, uncover high-impact use cases, and lead the development of assets that deliver measurable value. If you're ready to transform ideas into scalable solutions and drive innovation that matters, we want you on our team.
YOUR PROFILE
Client Co-Innovation Engagements
- Collaborate with sales teams to identify key clients and partners with the potential to co-develop innovative solutions aligned with strategic business goals.
Technology Roadmap Mapping
- Analyze and map client technology roadmaps across different engineering horizons to anticipate future needs and identify areas for innovation.
Strategic Innovation Planning
- Work closely with the Research & Development team to help shape and prioritize the internal innovation agenda based on market trends and client insights.
Use Case Discovery & Ideation
- Identify relevant use cases with clients and facilitate ideation sessions with technical teams to co-create impactful innovation projects.
Asset Exploitation & Monetization
- Lead the Clients exploitation strategy of innovation assets, ensuring business value and monetization of R&D; investments.
Partnership & Ecosystem Development
- Establish and nurture strategic innovation partnerships with hyperscalers and key technology providers to co-finance and accelerate the development of innovation assets.
- Degree in Engineering, Innovation Management, Business, or related fields.
- 4+ years of experience in innovation, business development, or technology strategy roles.
- Strong understanding of emerging technologies and innovation ecosystems.
- Experience working with clients on co-creation or co-development initiatives.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluent in English and Portuguese.
ABOUT CAPGEMINI
Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world. Apply now!
Job Description - Grade Specific
Focus on Connectivity and Network Engineering. Fully competent in own area. Acts as a key contributor in a more complex/ critical environment. Proactively acts to understand and anticipates client needs. Manages costs and profitability for a work area. Manages own agenda to meet agreed targets. Develop plans for projects in own area. Looks beyond the immediate problem to the wider implications. Acts as a facilitator, coach and moves teams forward.
Ref. code
350612-en_US
Posted on
29 Oct 2025
Experience level
Experienced Professionals
Contract type
Permanent
Location
VNG - Cais de Gaia, Lisboa - Expo, Lisboa - Colombo
Business unit
Engineering and RandD Services
Brand
Capgemini Engineering
Professional communities
Products & Systems Engineering