Growth Innovation Consultant

We're hiring! Within the Strategy & Innovation department of ABN AMRO, we explore and build the future of banking. Do you get excited from corporate innovation? Do you want to use your expertise to help our innovation teams create, validate, and grow new business concepts? We are looking for a Growth Innovation Consultant (m,f,x) who's keen to make a sustainable contribution to the future of ABN AMRO.

With your human-centric view and data-driven approach, you know how to develop new business concepts and accelerate the work of innovation teams on the journey to a viable, feasible new product or service that can land back in the larger organization. As such, you have hands-on experience in bringing a new product to market and know how to build a winning growth strategy. At the same time, you are capable of convincing innovation teams of the importance of human-centric design, a data-driven approach and can encourage, facilitate and coach them to apply it in a practical way. Ideally, you know your way around experimentation and data-driven lean decision making, as you support teams to create a scalable product. You support innovation teams to take the right steps, set up and facilitate workshops to identify new opportunities and translate customer and market insights to the business model, and iteratively help develop and scale new concepts. You can translate the value proposition into a (financial) model or business case. Along these lines, you are not afraid to initiate and lead projects to advance our innovation methodology or new business concepts.

• Developing, facilitating, and leading workshops (e.g. ideation, financial modelling or synthesis) with bank wide colleagues and (external) experts;
• Guiding innovation teams in growing new business concepts, using human-centric design, with concrete support on their go-to-market, sales, and growth strategy;
• Analyzing and interpreting research -and client data, translating them into meaningful insights for the proposition's business model;
• Supporting innovation initiatives in converting their proposition into a trackable (financial) model, identifying revenue and cost drivers;
• Initiating and leading projects of varying magnitude with different teams and departments within ABN AMRO, and our clients and partners;
• Building our innovation method and helping to continuously develop it further across all stages.

You will work in the Innovation Process & Design team that empowers innovation teams to generate and execute new business ideas. Innovation Process & Design is part of the department Strategy & Innovation that reports to the CEO. Strategy & Innovation plays a central role in defining and executing ABN AMRO's strategy and related innovation agenda. The department consist of functional units in Strategy, Corporate Development, and Innovation.

• You have solid experience with bringing a new product or service to market; You know how to grow new business concepts from prototype to scale;
• You have a creative approach to problem-solving and are comfortable taking the lead in guiding colleagues and partners along the innovation journey in multi stakeholder trajectories;
• You identify opportunities and pro-actively set up projects, engage teams and track progress; You know what it takes to involve stakeholders throughout the entire process;
• You have experience with, and deep knowledge of human-centered Design and/or Lean-Startup; You can apply them immediately and inspire teams to follow along;
• You have a curious and analytical mindset, looking for facts and creative ways to gather client- and market data to gain new insights and know how to translate them into your financial models; You can guide innovation teams through these activities;
• You have an affinity with the financial sector and are interested in the future of banking.
• Key words that characterise you are problem-solving, entrepreneurial, proactive and teamwork-focused.

• The gross monthly salary (Eur. 4.823 - 6.890) displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget. 40-hour work week is also possible.
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
• Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
• Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000.
• Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position).
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
• An excellent pension scheme.

If you are interested in applying for this position, reply to this vacancy without delay. Don't meet all requirements? We encourage you to still apply.
For more information, contact Anna-Lena Lorenz (anna-lena.lorenz@nl.abnamro.com). We look forward to meeting you.

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. In addition, a recruitment agency can only submit a resume when invited by a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join the search for a right candidate. All unsolicited resumes sent to us will be considered property of ABN AMRO BANK N.V. In this case, ABN AMRO will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.