Corporate Innovation Partner

The organisation

Innoleaps is a corporate venture builder that helps large companies reinvent themselves, radically revamping their innovation portfolio and rapidly building and scaling new ventures. It was launched in 2013 by the same team that founded Startupbootcamp, a European incubator with 1,500 companies in its portfolio. Through this ecosystem, Innoleaps knows what is happening in the start-up world and uses this knowledge to identify disruptive opportunities, new consumer needs and potential partnerships for its corporate customers.

Innoleaps itself is a scale-up and anything but a traditional consulting firm. Its team of 50+ venture builders work closely with the client executives and its “intrapreneurs” to shape the company’s innovation strategy and validate new concepts from ideation to product-market-fit, then scaling up the new ventures. Innoleaps focuses mainly on FMCG and works with leading multinationals such as Nestlé, Mars, Philips, FrieslandCampina and Lavazza. The company has offices in Europe (Amsterdam and Milan), Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Singapore), USA and Africa.

“We are able to go into a multinational FMCG company and help them launch new non-core products and service in a better and faster way.”

The position

Innoleaps is one of the world’s leading corporate venture builders, helping companies launch new non-core products and services better and faster. The Corporate Innovation Partner is responsible for full client acquisition, management, and project delivery with the teams, including related P&L. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced leader and innovator to contribute to the continued international growth of Innoleaps.

Tasks & responsibilities

Innoleaps is adding a Corporate Innovation Partner to the team to achieve its ambitious growth objectives. The responsibility of the role is full client management, from creating and negotiating proposals to acquire new clients, to shaping client innovation strategies, and coordinating with the project delivery teams. This requires a combination of strong commercial aptitude, proven by strong relationships with a large network of corporate executives and deep knowledge of industry innovation trends, analytical mindset and team leadership skills.

As part of the Group Management Team, the Corporate Innovation Partner is responsible for managing and growing the Innoleap client base, working together with the other Innoleaps Partners. The position in based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with travel requirement based on client needs. As all Partners, this role will have the chance to become an Equity Partner – by acquiring and earning stakes – hence profiting from the potential rapid growth of the Group.

“The Corporate Innovation Partner has several top management contacts on speed dial and brings in meaningful new revenues.”

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced corporate innovator to build new ventures with leading multinationals and contribute to the international growth this unique firm.

Candidate profile*

• 10+ years of experience in corporate innovation / corporate venture building, preferably in Consumer Goods, Energy or Financial Services
• Experience as Partner in innovation consulting
• Strong network of senior executives of leading international corporations
• Ability to work in a scale-up environment
• Fluent in English

* Research shows that while male candidates feel confident enough to apply when they meet about 60% of the requirements, female candidates only apply when they tick every box. So if this role has your name on it, but you’re not sure about the criteria, we still want to hear from you.

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