Product Innovation Manager

The role drives early-stage innovation across the Growth Hub, turning opportunities into validated business concepts and reporting to the Growth Hub Director. The manager leads Phase 0-2 innovation sprints, helping teams identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, test ideas and build evidence-based business cases, after which ownership transfers to the relevant sector teams. It is a hands-on, highly visible position for someone comfortable with ambiguity who can move ideas quickly from concept to validation. The work involves acting as facilitator, coach, challenger and connector to help teams make smarter and faster innovation decisions.