Accelerator Hub Lead

LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come.  LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

Come Join an Inclusive Team

The Accelerator Hub Lead is responsible for building and running a multi-phase acceleration engine that rapidly transforms ideas into scalable, high-impact technology solutions. This role guides initiatives through intake, feasibility, proof of concept, pilot, and enterprise deployment using a structured, stage-gated model. The role is not an R&D function; it is focused on accelerating validated business value from emerging technological opportunities like AI, automation, advanced analytics, and vendor platforms.

Combining strategic vision, delivery leadership, portfolio management, and change management expertise, the Accelerator Hub Lead establishes a repeatable, governed pathway that institutionalizes experimentation and enables scalable adoption across the enterprise. Their mission is to reduce the cost of experimentation, accelerate time-to-value, and drive evidence-based funding decisions for enterprise transformation.

Core Mission

• Lower experimentation costs and risks
• Accelerate validated value to enterprise scale
• Ensure funding decisions are grounded in evidence and measurable outcomes

A Day in the Life

• Lead the end-to-end acceleration lifecycle: Drive initiatives through each phase (intake, feasibility, PoC, pilot, scale) with a disciplined, repeatable process.
• Translate ideas into measurable business value: Align every opportunity to a clear problem statement, success metrics, and validated outcomes before scaling.
• Manage a high-impact innovation portfolio: Prioritize initiatives aligned to enterprise strategy, allocate resources effectively, and make evidence-based go/no-go decisions.
• Accelerate time-to-value: Reduce cycle time from ideation to pilot while maintaining governance, risk controls, and architectural standards.
• Partner across the enterprise: Collaborate with business leaders, architecture, security, data, vendors, and delivery teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions.
• Build repeatable capabilities: Develop playbooks, guardrails, and reusable patterns to institutionalize experimentation and scale emerging technologies.
• Innovation Lifecycle Management: Oversee structured processes from intake through pilot and full-scale transition, including proof of value/concept, pilot launches, and operational handoff.
• Governance & Risk Management: Embed guardrails, governance, and compliance into all activities, ensuring risk, security, and privacy requirements are met from the outset.
• Value Modeling & Measurement: Define business value trees, quantify ROI, cost savings, and operational improvements, and implement rigorous tracking/reporting mechanisms.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Secure buy-in from executive leadership, communicate progress and outcomes, and drive strategic agility across the organization.

Success Metrics

• Speed from intake to pilot
• Percentage of initiatives reaching validated value
• Capital efficiency (cost per validated initiative)
• Percentage of pilots successfully scaled
• Realized business value (savings, revenue, risk reduction)
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Reduction in shadow IT experimentation

You Bring This Value

• 10+ years in technology, change management, consulting, strategy, or innovation hub roles
• Proven record of delivering innovation projects and technology transformation
• Strong financial acumen and experience building business cases
• Cross-functional program management capability
• Comfort with ambiguity and fast-paced environments
• Ability to influence senior executives and stakeholders
• Experience working in outsourced/co-sourced environments (preferred)

Critical Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Aligns innovation to measurable enterprise outcomes
• Operational Discipline: Implements effective