Turning Strategy into Innovation

Innovation Director
The Challenge
Working in Strategy Consulting meant a highly fulfilling career, but one lacking in creativity. Our candidate approached us with a plan to move into an industry role that would utilise both their Engineering PhD and their love of the new. We knew they wanted to drive innovation, but without ‘hands on’ innovation experience the desired career move could prove difficult.
Our Input
Focussed
their CV by bringing out existing experience across Industry 4.0 topics, highlighting previous strategy projects in predictive maintenance and blockchain
Emphasised
their Engineering education credentials
Introduced
them to our client, a leading Engineering group in Munich which was looking for someone to build a 4.0 Innovation team that would help create the technology of tomorrow.
Candidate Impact
Built
an award-winning, multi-disciplinary 4.0 Innovation team
Set up
the first external corporate venture in this Engineering Group’s 100-year history
Utilised
their Engineering Phd to work on real world 4.0 opportunities
CANDIDATE WE PLACED
PhD EngineeringTier 1 Strategy Consulting experience

Industrial Technology experience (AI and Blockchain)
CLIENT WE HELPED
Top 10 Global Engineering GroupTransformation from a hardware-centric to software-driven enterprise

25,000+ staff worldwide
Testimonial
“For me this move wasn’t about just another role. I wanted to re-connect to all of the things I loved: deep engineering and helping a traditional organisation create new business models”
the candidate
Partners