Front-End Innovation Lead: Prototyping & Growth

Magnera Corporation; Tarragona; Presencial; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Magnera Corporation is seeking a Front End Innovation Specialist to identify and validate future growth opportunities at the intersection of technology, consumer insights, and market needs. You will translate observations into hypotheses, design experiments, and lead learning cycles to reduce uncertainty and shape disruptive platforms for the business.

Travel about 15-25% is expected. Collaborating with academia, startups, suppliers, and technology centers to generate actionable insights.

Formación

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Industrial or Product Design, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline.
• Typically, 3-7 years of experience in innovation, product development, engineering, technology development, startups, research organizations, or similar fast-learning environments.
• Demonstrated experience in experimentation, prototyping, structured problem solving, and learning through iterative testing.
• Experience with workshop facilitation, jobs-to-be-done, design thinking, lean startup, or similar innovation methodologies are considered a plus.
• Industry experience in nonwovens, materials, hygiene, medical, or related sectors is beneficial, but mindset, curiosity, and experimentation capabilities are valued above specific industry experience.

Responsabilidades

• Identify and explore emerging technologies, scientific advances, market signals, and innovation opportunities.
• Translate observations, insights, and unmet needs into learning hypotheses and validation plans.
• Identify critical uncertainties and design experiments to rapidly generate evidence and accelerate decision-making.
• Build, coordinate, and test prototypes to validate assumptions and accelerate learning.
• Lead learning cycles following an evidence-based, hypothesis-driven innovation process.
• Analyze experimental results and translate findings into actionable insights, recommendations, and next steps.
• Collaborate with consumers, customers, suppliers, startups, universities, and technology centers to generate insights and identify opportunities.
• Facilitate ideation, co-creation, and innovation workshops.
• Lead selected disruptive innovation projects and actively contribute to others.
• Support the identification and development of future growth opportunities beyond today's business.
• Communicate learnings, findings, and recommendations to project teams and leadership.
• Travel: approximately 15-25%.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Conocimientos

Experimentation

Prototyping

Design thinking

Lean startup

Workshop facilitation

Structured problem solving

Jobs-to-be-done

Educación

Engineering

Materials Science

Chemistry

Industrial/Product Design

Innovation/Entrepreneurship

Herramientas

None

Descripción del empleo

Magnera Corporation is seeking a Front End Innovation Specialist to identify and validate future growth opportunities at the intersection of technology, consumer insights, and market needs. You will translate observations into hypotheses, design experiments, and lead learning cycles to reduce uncertainty and shape disruptive platforms for the business.

Travel about 15-25% is expected. Collaborating with academia, startups, suppliers, and technology centers to generate actionable insights.