Innovation Manager

The Role 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Innovation Manager to join the growing Digital, Tech and Innovation team at London Sport. The role sits within the Impact & Innovation directorate and will be responsible for developing new initiatives to reduce inactivity. You will be at the forefront of testing and learning, turning our insight into action. The role is fast paced and will work quickly to identify opportunities that have the biggest impact. 

What you’ll do: 

• Support the continued development of the innovation function by championing the innovation pipeline and reinforcing a culture of impactful innovation across all teams. 

• Encourage problem solving and creativity across all teams and colleagues to develop a pipeline of innovative ideas. 

• Support and lead colleagues at each stage of the innovation pipeline, taking ideas from conception through the innovation process to secure funding to scale innovation projects. 

• Speed up our innovation process so we can rapidly test, learn and scale innovative products, services and solutions to reduce inactivity. 

• Engage with Londoners and stakeholders to develop new products and services to get Londoners active. 

• Analyse and understand the current landscape to ensure our innovation is insight led and user centered. 

• Identify and deliver innovative solutions to diversifying income. 

Who you are:  

• You have experience of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to design and deliver new products or services – this can include income generating as well as projects to get Londoners active. 

• You are able to develop personas, user stories and user insights through the use of qualitative and quantitative research techniques. 

• You have experience of using idea generation tools and techniques (either in a workshop setting or individually). 

• You can demonstrate experience developing products and initiatives from start to finish using iterative testing or prototyping of ideas to quickly and cheaply determine if the idea has legs. 

• You have the ability to initiate, develop and manage positive stakeholder relationships. 

• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to enthuse, persuade, negotiate and influence people through all forms of communication. 

• You can demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion in relation to London.