Global Senior Manager, Strategic Innovations at Living Goods

The Senior Manager, Innovations will spearhead the organization's programs innovations, ensuring it drives measurable health impact, cost efficiency, and scalable solutions for community health. As a thought leader in health impact, digital health and performance management, this role will ensure that the organization stays at the forefront of advancements, fostering a culture of rapid learning and agile implementation.
This role is pivotal in identifying, developing, and executing a robust pipeline of innovations and experiments, while co-securing the necessary resources through fundraising and partnerships.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy

• Support the development of innovation strategy for the organization in coordination with the Director Program Strategy and Excellence and Digital Health team.
• Lead efforts to identify, landscape and cultivate appropriate partnerships to build relevant pipeline idea initiatives in line with strategic plan and innovation strategy.
• Oversee the development and refinement of innovation design to generate evidence of impact, cost effectiveness and scalability.
• Strengthen innovation process, approaches and tools that drive user acceptance and fast learning cycle.

Project Coordination

• Oversee Project management cycle of key innovation initiatives and ensure learning cycle is effective balancing results, speed and nimbleness.
• Ensure innovation related restricted funding projects are timely executed and in full compliance with donor.
• Oversee partnership and/ or donor management when relevant.
• Co-create with government/key stakeholders innovative solutions to enable easy and quick adoption into national policies & strategies.

People Management

• Recruit manage and develop an effective innovation team.
• Bring out the best in people and build a culture of high performance and engagement in line with the organization’s values.
• Develop and infuse a UX and innovation culture across the organization.

Business Development and Advocacy

• In collaboration with the BD team, drive fundraising efforts to finance innovation initiatives, this will include developing high-quality proposals and partnerships.
• Capture lessons learned by initiatives, develop insights and case studies on innovations to inform future programming, influence policies and practice and increase visibility of Living Goods.
• Participate in global and regional health innovations forums to share insights and position LG as a thought leader in the innovation space.
• Engage with prospect and technical funders as well as strategic partners in relation with innovations.

Essential Qualifications, Experience, & Attributes:

• Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship, Business management, Technology or related field
• Professional certifications in Digital Health, Project Management desirable.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience with over 7 years supervisory experience and at least 4 years managing teams.
• Forward thinking.
• Ability to analyze, comprehend, and articulate the operational goals and strategic plan of the organization to guide decision-making.
• Provides leadership in effective management and stewardship of programs.
• Ability to communicate both inside and outside the organization and make formal presentation.
• Interpersonal and leadership skills and high levels of integrity.
• Builds commitment through collaboration, consultation and consideration of the stakeholders and the teams.
• Strong interest in digital health/ experience working in the digital health sector and / or public health innovation, with track record in development and deployment of innovations within private or public sector, including end-to-end management of the innovation cycle.
• Technical knowledge and hands on experience of virtual and data driven solutions within healthcare (i.e. telehealth, e-learning, digitized supply chains).
• Track record in driving organizational learning, knowledge management and documentation of best practices.
• Curiosity