Strategic Innovation Manager: Customer-Driven Growth

DNV Germany Holding GmbH; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital & Data Solutions (D&DS) is building a mission-critical, domain-driven digital business to support the energy transition, combining trusted data, engineering-grade software, and digital twins to deliver decision-grade insights in high-complexity environments. As a Strategic Innovation Manager, you will play a key outward-facing role at the intersection of customers, markets, and innovation.

You will actively secure and shape a pipeline of customer-anchored innovation opportunities,

Responsibilities

• Identify, originate and advance customers opportunities and shape innovation: Build a pipeline of customer opportunities to run experiments and validate new solutions. Act as an innovation ambassador, developing a strong network of customers willing to experiment through long‑term, trust‑based relationships.
• Scan markets and identify opportunities: Continuously monitor industry trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies to define high-value opportunity spaces aligned with D&DS strategic priorities.
• Translate insight into strategy: Convert market and customer signals into actionable strategic inputs, supporting the continuous evolution of D&DS strategy.
• Drive a customer-anchored innovation pipeline: Work with internal innovation labs and business lines to ensure experiments are grounded in real use cases, with clear commercial intent and pathways to scale.
• Enable build–buy–partner decisions: Assess where D&DS should build internally versus accelerate through external solutions, contributing to a balanced and evidence-based growth approach.
• Scout and evaluate ecosystem opportunities: Identify and screen potential partners, technologies, and acquisition targets to support partnership and inorganic growth initiatives.

Job description

Digital & Data Solutions (D&DS) is building a mission-critical, domain-driven digital business to support the energy transition, combining trusted data, engineering-grade software, and digital twins to deliver decision-grade insights in high-complexity environments. As a Strategic Innovation Manager, you will play a key outward-facing role at the intersection of customers, markets, and innovation.

You will actively secure and shape a pipeline of customer-anchored innovation opportunities,