Strategic Innovation & Excellence Lead

Roads and Transport Authority; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Roads and Transport Authority seeks an experienced leader to provide strategic guidance across innovation, research, and knowledge management, aligning initiatives with Dubai's forward-looking goals. You will drive excellence, partnerships, and labs, measuring progress and ensuring compliance with Authority policies.

The role involves shaping master plans, overseeing implementation, and tracking trends to sustain leadership in excellence award programs and external collaborations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Science/Business Administration.
• Extensive years of leadership experience in research, innovation and excellence programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide vision and strategic support across pioneering, research, studies, knowledge, innovation, and creativity to achieve RTA goals and future development.
• Plan excellence requirements and awards participation; advise on projects and initiatives to achieve highest excellence and continuous advancement.
• Co-develop the comprehensive management plan; supervise implementation, periodic measurement, and best-practice recommendations.
• Support sustainable implementation of strategies in research, development and innovation, ensuring compliance with Authority policies.
• Track global trends and competitive indicators; align organizational units' plans and initiatives to secure leadership positions.
• Propose initiatives to meet Dubai Excellence Program requirements and sustain first positions across award categories.
• Advise on framework to attract startups and pioneers and evaluating implementation to sustain leadership
• Advise the director on specialized matters; provide professional and technical guidance.
• Implement plans and programs for research, innovation, partnerships and pioneering practices; manage the central database for research, innovations, IP and partnerships.
• Develop and activate mechanisms to measure and monitor maturity in innovation, research, partnerships and excellence.
• Lead planning and implementation of innovation/leadership projects: prepare scopes, select consultants, and follow implementation stages.
• Provide technical support to implement all excellence programs in line with leadership expectations.
• Supervise self-evaluation and simulations against excellence standards; analyze results and implement corrective measures to ensure program readiness.
• Evaluate consultant and service-provider work for innovation and leadership as well as support external research partnerships and strategic research center relations.
• Prepare, develop and implement innovation laboratory plans, institutional research plans and partnership plans; manage labs, inventory outputs and maximize their use.

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Science/Business Administration

Experience requirement 12+ years (Master's) / 14+ years (Bachelor's)

Job description

Roads and Transport Authority seeks an experienced leader to provide strategic guidance across innovation, research, and knowledge management, aligning initiatives with Dubai's forward-looking goals. You will drive excellence, partnerships, and labs, measuring progress and ensuring compliance with Authority policies.

The role involves shaping master plans, overseeing implementation, and tracking trends to sustain leadership in excellence award programs and external collaborations.