.About IT in NestléWe are a team of IT professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world.We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé's digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace.We collaborate with our business partners around the world to deliver standardized, integrated technology products and services to create tangible business value.Position SnapshotLocation : Nestlé MéxicoStream : IT Innovation & New TechnologiesType of Contract : PermanentKey Responsibilities :Understanding of Innovation process flow and putting it in practice (from strategic input / fit to Industrialization)Formulates and implements innovation strategy for a scope or a brief, consistently with the relevant business and IT strategies and develop with Function counterparts a forward view, position papers / videos, briefs, etc.Identifies existing gaps between the current and the desired state and helps instantiate the integrated strategy between the Functions, Zone, Market and IT while plugging the gaps.Identifies emerging spaces for value delivery, tracks and vets emerging technologies, secures ownership or privileged access to the technologies that may direct the company's future, and helps address current or future, untapped IT customer and consumer needs or business capability.Manages sustainable pipe and portfolio of concepts from ideation stage through in-product group taste-testing, championing breakthrough innovation initiatives and projects, and ensures that they demonstrate the proposal ability to deliver business value.Assists in generating demand for innovation services, evangelizing within Nestlé both the proven success of the IT innovation team and the benefits for Nestlé in accordance to the Innovation communications strategy & plan.Creates and manages innovation projects with in-scope product groups, EA and Strategic Product Architects to incubate concepts and accelerate development of high-impact "better, faster, smarter" IT products and (new) business models.Leads integration of consumer research, financial, technology and business product groups and business teams to explore and validate innovative solutions.Assists in creating annual IT innovation plans.Forges and maintains close relationships and links between industry, research, and academia to encourage increased technology transfer and open innovation, staying up to date with industry trends, start-ups, venture capitalists and innovation of competitors or technology market leaders and translating the insights for the Nestlé context.Understands IT consumer needs, key market, and cultural trends relevant to business objectives.Establishes productive plans for novel ideas within the scope.Creates new technology opportunities, new directions and awareness across the scope
