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The Strategy & Innovation Lead is a global role responsible for shaping and driving the strategic and innovation agenda for digitalization of Customer Services. The role focuses on future readiness by defining the implementation strategy, leading innovation initiatives, and ensuring that emerging technologies, skills, and ways of working are systematically developed and embedded. Unlike delivery execution roles, this position does not manage day-to-day delivery or people, but instead influences through expertise, thought leadership, and strong stakeholder engagement. The role operates also across the broader ecosystem, acting as a bridge to other organizational units to ensure architectural alignment, reuse, and strategic coherence.

This is a hybrid position with possible locations in Bratislava, Žilina or Košice.

Key Responsibilities

Cross-Functional Alignment & Ecosystem Integration

• Ensure that strategy and innovation initiatives are aligned with broader organizational standards, platforms, and architectural principles.
• Collaborate with adjacent teams and functions to identify synergies, enable reuse of solutions, and avoid duplication of efforts.
• Incorporate shared platforms, best practices, and integration approaches into innovation activities.
• Act as a bridge between Implementation Services and the wider digital and technology landscape, ensuring alignment and knowledge exchange.
• Contribute insights from implementation and delivery into the evolution of standards, approaches, and strategic direction.

Strategy & Roadmap Development

• Define, maintain, and evolve the Implementation Services strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with business priorities.
• Translate business and technology trends into clear strategic initiatives and focus areas.
• Ensure strategic alignment across the organization and senior stakeholder groups.
• Ensure alignment with cross-capability architecture, platform strategies, and governance.

Innovation Pipeline & Emerging Technologies

• Own and manage the innovation pipeline, from idea generation through pilot execution.
• Lead AI, automation, and ServiceNow innovation initiatives and proof-of-concepts.
• Identify, assess, and introduce emerging technologies and best practices relevant to IS.
• Leverage reusable assets, shared platforms, and engineering standards in innovation initiatives.

Portfolio Framing & Investment Logic

• Support strategic portfolio framing and prioritization of initiatives in collaboration with leadership team
• Provide input into investment decisions by articulating long-term value, capability impact, and strategic fit.
• Ensure balance between short-term delivery needs and long-term capability development.

Capability Development & Enablement

• Identify future skill and capability needs and translate them into concrete development actions.
• Enable communities of practice, standards, and reusable assets across teams.
• Drive adoption of new tools, methods, and ways of working.

Stakeholder Engagement & Thought Leadership

• Act as a thought leader and advisor on strategy and innovation topics
• Communicate strategy, roadmaps, and innovation outcomes clearly to management
• Collaborate closely with the Execution Lead, Architecture, and other key partners.
• Act as a key interface between organizations to ensure alignment and knowledge flow.

Skills & Experience

• Strong strategic thinking and innovation leadership experience in a technology or software delivery environment.
• Proven experience with enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow and exposure to AI, automation, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills, particularly with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to influence without formal authority and drive alignment across teams.
• Typically, 7+ years of relevant professional experience in strategy, innovation, architecture, or similar roles.
• Fluent business English.

In line with applicable pay transparency requirements, the minimum gross monthly base salary for this position is 3400€.

In addition, this role includes a variable compensation component, depending on individual and/or company performance.

The final offer will be determined based on qualifications, skills, and experience and may exceed the stated minimum.

What do we offer:

• Variable and Christmas bonus
• Hybrid type of work – combination of telework and work from office
• Flexible Working Hours
• Bridge days – free extra paid leave 6 days per year 
• 3 sick days per year (no doctor’s permit needed)
• In case of sickness 100% salary reimbursement 20 days/ year, this includes max. 10 days/ year for of family care
• Additional pension plan
• 300 EUR for regeneration of work force via cafeteria system
• Wellbeing program – Psychological, Legal and Financial Counseling
• Family care program (subsidy for newborns, maternity leave, kindergardens, summer camps)
• Retention program (work anniversary, life anniversary, employee loans)
• Training and development program (business and product trainings, e-learning, language courses, soft skills trainings…)
• Adjustable standing desk as a standard
• Participation on world famous IT conferences like Microsoft IGNITE for best employees
• Wide project portfolio in healthcare domain and job rotation within company (Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare IT services, …)

Who we are:
We are a team of more than 71,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:
When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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