Innovation Manager

WE KINDLY ASK OUR PARTICIPANTS TO FILL OUT THE OFFICIAL FORM FROM OUR WEBSITE! ONLY APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED AT OUR OFFICIAL FORM WILL BE TAKEN UNDER CONSIDERATION.  

Description of the Position:

• Write business proposals and prepare presentations to potential clients and stakeholders.

• Work directly with the CEO to ensure professional engagement and deliver quality proposals that emphasize the customer needs.

• Start and manage the full sales cycle, coordinating pre-sales and specialist resources as needed.

• Understand and analyze the needs of prospective customers and respond effectively with a plan on how to meet them via our solutions.

• Think strategically and set aims and objectives to develop and improve the organization.

• Negotiate on terms and conditions of the sales and service agreements.

• Provide input from a customer perspective to tech and marketing projects involving the design of new products, services and solutions.

• Develop the business development strategy in order to increase the company customer base and its revenue streams.

• Carry out careful strategic and tactical planning for partnership growth as well as build the business development processes needed to meet organization’s goals.

• Brief and guide the execution team (both the tech team and the Innovation Programs’ team) to ensure quality deliverables based on customers’ needs.

• Meet with customers/partners face to face or online.

• Retain and foster relationships with existing clients and partners.

• Keep abreast of trends and changes in the startup world and the innovation ecosystem.

• Identify the right ecosystem partners and shape and formalize those relationships to drive initiative growth.

Obligatory Skills & Requirements: 

• Knowledge in the Field Industry 4.0, Startups & Innovation, Digital Transformation.

• Excellent demonstrated problem solving skills for related applications and processes.

• Superior analytical thinking skills, intellectual rigor and curiosity and problem-solving capability.

• Excellent people skills and ability to present recommendations to senior executives.

• Excellent communication, listening and writing skills in English.

• Project management skills/ability to multitask and prioritize.

• Proven track record to work with multiple departments (engineering, marketing, quality, sales, service and support).

• Must have good working knowledge and demonstrated skills with relevant engineering principles, techniques, and applications.

• Must have a demonstrated track record of developing general business cases and aligning stakeholders to them.

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related or engineering field.

• MSc in Business Administration (MBA) will be considered a plus.

Even if you do not have all the above skills, but you have the PASSION and WILLINGNESS to learn, please fill the application form.

About Startup Greece: 

The Startup Greece is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 2015 by a group of young people who love entrepreneurship and technology. We encourage, support, unite and connect entrepreneurs, scientists, students, the unemployed and social ventures. We provide tools they need to create innovative projects, i.e. sharing local economies, we encourage them to stay in the country and picture the future with optimism.

Startup Greece enables young interns coming from abroad to share their experience, enhancing cross-border networking and cooperation. We are profiting from teamwork abilities, networking with institutions and businesses, volunteering and experience in various fields of entrepreneurship (i.e. financial & business planning, marketing, fundraising).

See more about us at https://startup-greece.org/ or at SG Presentation.

For further information, please contact us.