Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely -- even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love -- driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together -- lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you'll be doing...

As a Senior Manager - Program Management, you will manage the development and continuous update of the organization's innovation vision and strategy in coordination with key stakeholders. The Senior Innovation Manager plays a key leadership role spearheading high-impact innovation initiatives and leading cross-functional teams to drive transformation. Strategy Managers play a pivotal role in shaping the long-term direction and success of an organization.

The roles and responsibilities include -

Building and maintaining a strategic programme for implementing the innovation strategy and ensuring that the resources (people and facilities) needed to deliver the innovation objectives are present.

Revised Stakeholder Engagement and Alignment: Bringing together various stakeholders across Verizon around shared goals and strategies for intricate projects; partnering closely with cross-functional teams to create, assess, and implement innovative and practical solutions; fostering collaboration among both internal and external stakeholders; working alongside the leadership team to formulate and carry out a strategy for stakeholder engagement alignment.

Investigation and Experimentation: Spearheading contextual research and design experiments to rapidly test assumptions and confirm proposed solutions; perform market analysis and gather customer insights to guide the development of new practices and models; educating others on applying innovative methods to navigate diverse complex problem areas, identify opportunities for enhancement, and lead teams in scaling successful interventions.

Develop appropriate metrics to measure the effectiveness (e.g., number of new or improved offerings) and efficiency (e.g., throughput time) of the innovation process

Develop innovation process documentation and implement staff training programmes

Align and integrate the innovation strategy with strategic objectives of the organization, including operational and business models, and road maps for products and services

Define and assess key organizational prerequisites (structure, staffing, etc) for implementing the innovation strategy

Build and maintain a strategic programme for implementing the innovation strategy and ensure that the resources (people and facilities) needed to deliver the innovation objectives are present

Maintain an innovation portfolio (consisting of e.g. innovation- or new business development projects)

Develop alternative business models conducive to innovation

Initiate relevant market monitoring and foresighting activities, including search for new market opportunities

AI Skillset

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Leveraging knowledge of artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms to create and implement AI models and solutions.

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Design, enhance, and evaluate high-performing AI solutions to ensure they align with both business requirements and technical specifications.

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Promote a culture of ongoing learning and growth, guiding and supporting the team to thrive in sophisticated AI methods.

Where you'll be working:

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

You'll need to have:

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Management.

Six or more years of relevant work experience in handling Quantitative, problem-solving, technical and analytical skills.

Program management/ ITIL certifications

Delve into market research, competitive analysis, and company capabilities to develop actionable strategies that drive growth and innovation.

Strong relationship management skills to interface with internal IT leaders, business leaders and external vendors

Expert in portfolio budget, finance management and tracking

Knowledge of project management techniques and methods.

Knowledge of productivity and program management tools/software-eg. Jira, Confluence / Clarity, G Suite, slack , etc

Quantitative, problem-solving, technical and analytical skills.

Knowledge of operational and financial performance management measures, including implications for IT and Business strategy.

Additional

Manages the development of multi-year product and service roadmaps that embrace future technologies and build on the existing ecosystem of offerings while presenting business plan proposals to senior executives.

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Manage the development of proposals aligned to our market and against competitive landscape. Conduct gap analysis utilizing RF need and capital budgeting.

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Help to prepare and present proposals to executive leadership. Articulate and accurately present the design features and specifications to business leaders.

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Perform market research and analyze data from various industries to come up with creative solutions and capitalize on market opportunities.

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Create strategic plans to address areas of opportunity, communicate recommendations to senior management, and work with product development, marketing and operations teams to execute on strategic initiatives.

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Play a role on key Product Strategy initiatives, e.g., evaluate and document existing processes, coordinate business growth projections.

Where you'll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.