Innovation Analyst

Overview: REHAU is the premium worldwide brand for polymer-based innovations and systems in construction, automotive and industry from furniture to appliances to aircraft. You encounter our systems every day, without noticing them. While they may be invisible, their benefit is always tangible. More than 20,000 employees at 170 locations worldwide apply their expertise and innovative capabilities to ensure the continuous growth of our independent privately held company.
As part of the REHAU family, the New Ventures team is a diverse group of people who seek to create new business opportunities in the construction and smart home industry. The team focusses on thinking beyond REHAU’s core business to build new business ventures concentrating on sustainability, digitization and business model innovation.
Please apply even if you do not feel that your credentials are a 100% match with the position description. We are looking for relevant skills and attributes, not a checklist of exact experience.
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Ideating:

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to understand pain points of customers
• Sketch out customer journeys and think of new ideas and concepts to solve prioritized customer pain points together with the team
• Report findings and recommendations to management through comprehensive and easy to follow presentations.

Testing:

• Build minimum viable products and run real-life experiments to test desirability of business ideas together with the team
• Build business cases for most promising ideas including such elements as a TAM/SAM/SOM analysis and business model generation
• Pitch the most promising ideas to an investment committee in order to receive seed funding to start scaling the venture

Scaling:

• Support the venture team in business development and sales activities
• Support the venture team in developing and hiring, conducting partner negotiations and others
• Support the venture team in financial budgeting and planning of strategic and operative decisions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, economics, engineering or a related field
• 1-3 years of practical work experience as an innovator in a relevant corporate innovation team or an innovation consulting firm or in an early-stage start-up
• Understanding of Design Thinking and Lean Startup methods
• Market research experience including competitive market mapping, trend analysis, and TAM/SAM/SOM analysis
• Project management experience with ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Data driven with ability to analyze, interpret data and present results to management
• Experience in the construction and/or smart home industry not required, but preferred.
• Experience in B2B not required, but preferred.

Personal Characteristics

• Energetic, positive mind set and can-do mentality
• Resourceful and happy to roll up your sleeves to get the job done
• Adaptable to the fast-paced work environment and able to prioritize tasks
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and entrepreneurial skills
• Self-starter, able to work independently as well as with members of a larger team

In addition to competitive salary and a positive working environment, we offer comprehensive health, vision and dental insurance plans; a wide-ranging list of supplemental benefits, a very generous 401(k) plan match, 11 paid holidays and 17 vacation days per year.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

REHAU is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of our team. We provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, physical or other disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.