WHO WE ARE

At Hays, as a global Recruitment Consultancy, we are currently looking for an Innovation Scouting Lead (Spain/France) for a German multinational and one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, present in more than 50 countries worldwide.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• Identify innovation/business opportunities and scout /qualify innovation partners
• Drive exchange/collaboration with local innovation labs of hyperscalers (e.g. Meta (facebook) collaboration with operators on shaping the metaverse)
• Establish network of scouting multipliers in Iberian ecosystem and cover main Iberian tech events (e.g. WebSummit Lisbon, South Summit Madrid, MWC)
• Drive exchange/collaborate with local telcos on relevant innovation topics
• Working in a hybrid model remotely and in our Madrid/Barcelona office location.

PROFILE

• Young professional with 3+ years of job experience ideally as Business Developer/Investment Analyst/Innovation Scout in a tech start-up/venture capital firm/corporate innovation unit.
• Tech savvy individual ideally with a master degree in computer science, engineering, innovation management or business administration
• Significant and broad knowledge of the telco-relevant product and technology innovation landscape
• Very proactive self-starter with high degree of independence at work, collaborating in a virtual European team
• Strong communication, presentation and relationship management skills on all management levels.
• Fluent written and spoken English and Spanish, travelling once in a while.

WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF THIS?

• Value-oriented innovation culture combined with unique resources and capabilities
• Diverse team with continuous top rates on employee satisfaction · International collaboration with top domain experts and inspiring leaders
• Influence on the digitalization journey of millions of customers in ground-breaking exponential age
• Collaborate on research and suggest/ develop solution prototypes to demonstrate suitability and interoperability of chosen components, write high-quality and efficient code
• Contribute to a collaborative culture of ongoing guidance and coaching for the team members
• Be part of an independent self-managed team working with Agile, SCRUM, DevOps, CICD & SRE
• Contribute to opensource projects

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