Key Responsibilities: 

Identify focus areas for critical innovation projects 

• Conduct clinical observations and stakeholder interviews to understand the problem space. Identify, draft and refine needs statements accordingly. 

• Scope, quantify and prioritize needs to identify high-value opportunities across diverse patient populations (leveraging structured rubrics to evaluate needs, quantitative surveys, and /or health economic value calculation). 

• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-regional teams to incorporate global perspectives and develop strong knowledge of our global customer base. 

Translate insights to innovation opportunities: 

• Analyze research data and facilitate cross-functional interpretations to drive new opportunities for innovation.  

• Set up the context from triangulated insights for early-stage concept development and filtering based on feasibility, differentiation, and market fit  

• Contribute to  Sensing hub (clinical, commercial, user, etc.) for continuous feedback leading to new design considerations or new innovation opportunities.  

• Conduct field visits and attend conferences to establish a deep understanding of customers and bring insights back to the UCC business. 

• Change management and communication  

• Provide regular updates to key stakeholders to bring awareness and build engagement in innovation practices and progress.  

• Host innovation training events to empower UCC’s innovation engine. 

Critical Traits: 

• Demonstrated ability to develop deep, rigorous analytical analysis that drives growth opportunity identification, strategy development, or technology/product decision-making 

• Demonstrated ability to independently identify, prioritize, and successfully advocate for opportunities to drive growth. 

• Demonstrated ability to translate insights and ideas into actionable innovation opportunities 

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