O pozici
We have an exciting position open in the Innovation Excellence team: Senior Specialist, Innovation Excellence Enablement
The jobholder ensures that business‑relevant innovation opportunities are supported, framed, routed within the Aptar organization, and owned by the right segment at the right moment—maximizing reuse, speed, and commercial pull. He/she operates entirely through influence, structure, and narrative. The role turns the IE organisation from a set of pillars into a system.
Co budeš dělat
- Network coordination
Map innovation initiatives across segments and regions; capture outcomes, learnings, and reuse opportunities; and share best practices to reduce duplication.
- Facilitate adoption of created Innovation Excellence frameworks, tools, and processes through workshops, forums, and hands-on facilitation.
- Act as a key point of contact for network members; gather feedback, identify improvement opportunities, and escalate systemic issues with proposed solutions.
- Liaise and track priorities, surface needs, and enable cross-segment execution.
- Prepare dashboards and synthesized updates for IE reviews; collect formal and informal feedback to consolidate pain points and support resource allocation discussions
- Support the building of innovation narratives/communication for respective GMD / GLT, ensure the leadership discussion focused on key decisions such as choices, scaling, stopping / spinning out.
- Coordinate the PM / best-practices network (community of practice), connecting project leaders across sites and functions to share standards, tools, and delivery learnings.
- Plan and facilitate governance and network rhythms: recurring calls, quarterly reviews, working groups, and targeted deep dives on delivery challenges.
- Seek alignment on methods and ways of working and ensure rollout of improved processes and tools.
- When needed, support Customer Experience Center activities
- Best Practices
Support the building of governance for capture and reuse of project learnings, including after-action reviews, retrospectives, and standardised tagging/taxonomy.
- Coordinate with Data/IT and functional SMEs to align knowledge assets with tools and processes (e.g., project management systems, collaboration platforms, IP data), and reduce duplication.
- Facilitate capability building by enabling training content, onboarding materials, and communities of practice; track adoption and effectiveness of key standards.
- Maintain and curate the PM knowledge base (playbooks, templates, SOPs, lessons learned, FAQs), ensuring content quality, version control, and easy discoverability
- Help shape the commercial/communication storyline of each opportunity (e.g. “Why now?”, “Why this segment?”, “What must be proven before BU ownership?”)
- Through analytics and data in the areas of IP and PPM, support early-stage invention disclosure processes and work closely with Legal to strengthen IP capture, clarity, and reuse.
- Maintain and continuously improve innovation, knowledge, and IP repositories to ensure information is accessible, connected, and reusable
Koho hledáme
- Good data analysis skills (data quality, KPI design, insight generation, storytelling with data); advanced Excel and familiarity with BI tools is an advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain knowledge management practices (content governance, taxonomy, lessons learned) and improve reuse of standards.
- Experience in coordinating networks/communities across a matrix organisation; confident facilitator of working groups and stakeholder forums.
- Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders without direct authority; pragmatic, service-oriented, and comfortable in ambiguity.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and strong attention to detail; able to translate complex delivery data into clear executive messages.
Benefity
- Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus plan.
- An Exciting, Diverse and value based working environment
- Award-winning Corporate University offering personal development and training opportunities.
