Executive Manager, Innovation Experimentation

• This position is responsible for establishing and leading the Groups capability in innovation experimentation. The role plays a critical part in shaping how technology explores tests and scales new technologies ensuring structured experimentation is embedded as a core capability to inform strategic and investment decisions across the Group.

• Lead and oversee the development and execution of AI and emerging technology experimentation across technology setting direction and ensuring alignment to strategic priorities.
• Establish and mature technologys experimentation capability including frameworks governance and operating models to enable consistent and scalable execution.
• Build and embed organisation-wide capability enabling business and technology teams to independently design run and learn from experiments.
• Guide the balance between exploration and delivery ensuring robust evidence is generated to inform strategic investment and scaling decisions.
• Provide clear synthesised insights and recommendations to senior executives shaping decision-making and influencing the Groups technology and innovation agenda.
  

This role calls for a leader with strong stakeholder engagement capabilities and a proven ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across complex organisations. You will be comfortable operating at scale bringing clarity and direction in environments that are fastmoving highly regulated and often ambiguous. You will bring extensive experience working in strategy innovation engineering or emerging technology environments ideally within a large enterprise. A deep understanding of AI and emerging technologies is essential alongside the ability to translate these capabilities into tangible business and customer value.

Key capabilities and experience include:

• Proven leadership and enterpriselevel stakeholder management including influencing senior executives
• Strong experience building leading and uplifting highperforming teams and capabilities
• Deep understanding of AI and emerging technologies and how to apply them at scale
• Comfort working in highambiguity environments using structured and strategic thinking to guide decisions