Innovation Leader

Alstom seeks an Innovation Leader in Singapore to lead smart mobility projects, managing scope, budget, and stakeholder engagement. The role requires an engineering degree, experience in tech product management, and familiarity with innovation ecosystems. Responsibilities include project structuring, collaboration with R&D and external partners, and scaling initiatives regionally. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, communication skills, and a business-oriented mindset.
Req ID:480680

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Are you our smart mobility innovation projects lead in APAC Innovation Station based in Singapore ?

ORGANISATION STRUCTURE

Reporting to the Head of Innovation Station.

NETWORK & LINKS

Internal:

R&D teams, Projects and sales teams

External:

Asia Pacific innovation and tech eco-system

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
• Take lead on one or several smart mobility projects and transform them into reality.
• Structure the project (scope, schedule, budget, ROI) and get project / Station approval.
• Lead realization and make it happen.
• Scale up at region level.
• Bring new ideas, identify new opportunities.
• Link with Alstom R&D platform and region project for collaboration.
• Link with APAC ecosystem for collaboration (Universities, public agencies, Start Up, customers, etc).

MAIN REQUIRED COMPETENCES

Educational Requirements

- Engineering Degree & Master

- Fluent in English

Experience

Mandatory:
• Experience in tech product creation and management:
• Tech (robotic, data, digital) product development, from ideation to commercialization
• Product design
• Data and Software architecture concepts
• Business model creation
• DevOps, MLOps
• Computer Science general knowledge
• Experience in Data and AI product
• Tech team management
• Risk management
• Change management / deployment of new product
• Manage ambiguity and priorities and negotiate tradeoffs
• Agile methodology
• Experience in Innovation:
• Experience / contact with Tech eco-system (customers, maintainer, operator, Universities, governmental agencies, Start Up)
• Business / Tech opportunities identification and assessment
• Ideation and design workshop management
• Patent management
• Experience in Project management:
• Stakeholder management (customer, management, supplier, support function)
• Budget management
• Planning

Desirable:
• Experience in Innovation
• Experience in Computer Vision
• Interest in Robotic
• Data or Digital platform design and management
• Experience in Railways Industry
• Experience in Business development

Competencies & Skills
• Leader with a strong capacity to embark stakeholders to new ideas in a new structure
• Experience on Digital / Data / IT project and product development
• Business mindset oriented with entrepreneurial spirit
• Technical capacity to correlate Alstom problematics, technology, and business
• Excellent communicators and innovation ambassador
• Ease multidisciplinary and international team interaction
• Trustable QCD and processes commitment keeper

Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow’s mobility. That’s why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions and geographic locations. Are you ready to join a truly international community of great people on a challenging journey with a tangible impact and purpose?

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.