Market-Creating Innovation Advisor Jobs

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Position: Market-Creating Innovation Advisor
Reports to: Chief of Staff, Operations
Position Term: Full Time Permanent
Primary Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type: Remote (Within Canada)
Job Purpose:
The Market-Creating Innovation Advisor will focus on ideating and exploring innovative ideas through a disciplined approach to create new offerings and new markets that are delivered through optimal channels.
Through ongoing and rapid ideation, exploration, solution development, prototyping, testing, validation, and refinement, the Market-Creating Innovation Advisor will produce new models to diversify sources for donation funds and further strengthening existing market offerings.
As our Market-Creating Innovation Advisor, you will be an agile, innovative and creative thinker responsible for taking a strategic approach in building, launching and managing projects/programs that drive results for our customers.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working closely and collaboratively with the other team members of the Market-Creating Innovation team and external partners.
• Evaluating ideas (high-level and low-level evaluations) to understand the opportunity, financials, competitive landscape, addressable market, market viability, expected growth/scale, the effort required (people, time, cost, other requirements).
• Developing a variety of sources for broad scope opportunities (facilitating brainstorming, idea submission process, individual ideation, market trends/opportunity review exercise, and more.
• Operating as an entrepreneur to pursue top-rated ideas in the portfolio through defined stages to determine market viability (ideation, evaluation, solution design, user experience, regulatory and compliance adherence, prototyping, market testing, review and decision on how to proceed).
• Being well versed on the current landscape and emerging trends in consumer behavior, the charitable sector, international development, technology, and new business models to enhance ideation and solution development.
• Creating thorough business cases to outline the idea for consideration.
• Passionately conceptualize, design and build compelling solutions to make a meaningful impact to diversify sources for donation funds and further strengthen market engagement.
• Operating with a portfolio management approach to consistently monitor, compare, prioritize an innovation portfolio to ensure resources are deployed on best opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Ability to create and communicate clarity and structure from ambiguous problems.
• Experience in a start-up or agile environment, and familiarity with the process of setting up a new entity.
• Emotional intelligence, strong communication skills, and professionalism.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Ability to manage budgets, ROIs, resource allocation and multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience creating detailed business cases to equip senior leadership decision making.
• Advanced problem-solving abilities.
• Building and creating go-to-market plans for new products and technological solutions.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in product development and/or product management.
• A university degree in business, engineering, strategy, science, or a similar discipline (MBA an asset).
• Understanding of international development and charitable space is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience in developing minimally viable products and conducting market testing.
• Strong activity planning/project management skills.
• Experience facilitating working sessions or group brainstorming.
• Experience designing process, solutions, user experiences, is preferred.

Why Consider Us?

• World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada’s and the GTA’s top employers. Other awards granted are for financial transparency, marketing, customer service and for the work we do in the field.
• Opportunities to become a member of our Employee Resource Groups.
• Opportunities to work with cutting edge technology.
• A supportive management team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusivity.
• Flexible work schedules, allowing you to prioritize yourself, your family and your work.
• You get extra time off. We close for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year. You can get up to six weeks’ vacation, plus paid sick days, personal days & wellness days.
• Work from home opportunities.
• A creative and dynamic work environment, where your ideas and contributions can be heard, valued and respected.
• We are Canada’s largest development, relief and advocacy non-profit.
• Opportunities for continued learning and professional development.
• Competitive total rewards package.

We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.
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Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People. We are Partners. We are Responsive.
Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.
World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.
World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
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