Innovation Coordinator (KSL)Date: Apr 2, 2024Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United StatesCompany: EntergyPosting End Date:Work Place Flexibility: HybridLegal Entity: Entergy Services, LLCJOB SUMMARY/PURPOSEKeyString Labs (KSL) is Entergy’s innovation center, charged with developing new products and services to meet the evolving needs of customers. KSL is looking for an Innovation Business Operations Coordinator to lead and support critical business initiatives tied to our innovation efforts, including (but not limited to): the development and maintenance of strategic presentations, product development tracking structure, metrics and reporting materials, the oversight of stakeholder engagement activities, and the establishment and growth of our external innovation partnership network. This is a key role within KSL that requires a robust understanding of KSL’s strategic direction, innovation process, and how the various activities underway within the Lab contribute to it. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, tech-savvy, a team player, and a solid problem solver with strong collaboration abilities. The role of Innovation Coordinator is to unlock the potential of our team through supporting presentation creation, storytelling, reporting, data maintenance, and systems management. This role is intended to be a central mechanism of service across Key String Labs in service of our functions to create aligned progress and business continuity.JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Partner with cohorts to cultivate and ensure that all presentations meet KeyString Labs standards and are accurate to tell Product Team stories to key stakeholders
Maintain tools, resources, and content databases through collaboration with the innovation team to ensure that products are necessary to deliver the best work with simplicity and ease
Create presentations for different audiences (executives, operating companies, and other partners across the organization) that tell the story of KSL’s strategic direction, product-specific developments, key performance indicators, financial and budgetary matters, and innovation resources. The ability to collaborate with KSL team members and establish and maintain a deep understanding of KSL’s innovation efforts is critical to successfully perform these duties.
Monitor the performance of KSL product teams and track their progress against key performance indicators. Results will be captured in a dashboard format that will be used to communicate with partners and leadership across the organization. The person in this role will be responsible for creating and maintaining the reporting dashboards and collecting and manipulating the data that feeds the dashboard. A deep understanding of ongoing innovation activities, an understanding of financial and operational indicators, and the ability to collect and manipulate different data sets will be required to do this successfully.
Oversee KSL’s invoice and contract processing via Maximo asset management application. Collaborate with supply Chain partners to execute renewals, initiate new contracts and liaise with vendors.
Stakeholder engagement oversight will be a critical responsibility for this role. The successful candidate will work with members of the IPPM team, product teams, and partners across the organization in order to development engagement strategies for each product concept under development, establish expectations for those engagements, track the progress of those efforts, and report that progress throughout the process.
Establishment and growth of our external innovation partnership network will be another area of focus for this role. The successful candidate will support the Innovation Partnership Manager to identify opportunities for partnership, screen potential partners, track progress on external partnership opportunities, and prepare reports on these efforts. This duty requires an understanding of our external partnership strategy, strong research skills, data management skills, and the application of sound logic to make recommendations on potential fits.
Participate and support miscellaneous innovation efforts as needed. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: capturing key takeaways and action items from strategic discussions with partners across the organization, capturing key takeaways and action items from strategic discussions with potential partners outside of the organization, the planning and implementation of innovation-related collaborations (e.g. hackathons, ideation sessions, business plan competitions, etc.), etc. This duty also requires a solid understanding of the group’s process and strategy, the ongoing innovation activities underway, and how the stakeholders, both inside and outside of the organization, fit into these strategies and activities underway.
Collaborate with innovation leaders and teams to create and deliver internal documents, with accuracy; facilitate required input for needed continual tracking and reporting of progress and metrics, and; coordinate and actively participate in meetings to understand needs, provide input and solution tracking and reporting challenges, help take notes and capture actions where applicable.
Strategically and consistently create digital storage solutions for KeyString Labs and maintain a centralized repository for information.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTSMinimum education required of the position:
Required: In pursuit of (or completed) Bachelor’s Degree in a related, administrative or clerical, related field.
Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree, with a concentration in innovation, communications, process, analysis, marketing, graphic design, business, or related field.
Minimum experience required of the position
Required: 1-2 years of Office, administrative or clerical
Preferred: 2+ years of professional experience, with a focus on innovation, communications, process, analysis, marketing, business, graphic design, project management, or related field
Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position
Required - Microsoft Office Suite Proficiency (Word, Excel, One Note, PowerPoint, etc.)
Required - Microsoft SharePoint Proficiency
Preferred – Proficiency with Power BI
Preferred - Familiarity with programs such as, but not limited to, AirTable, Slack, Lucid, Confluence, Maximo etc.
WORKING CONDITIONS
The position works in an office environment
The role will be required to report to work during standard Entergy business hours
Some after-hours work may be required on an ad-hoc basis based on business needs
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