19 Innovation jobs in Ireland
Innovation Associate, Innovation Pipeline Team
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Senior Director, Product Innovation

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**About the Role**
The **Senior Director of Product Innovation** will be responsible for generating new growth for Optum Rx by partnering closely with Optum Rx businesses and the broader UHG enterprise to identify and qualify new product opportunities for the PBM. Reporting up to the VP, OptumRx (Ireland) and dotted line to the SVP, Strategy & Innovation (US), the Senior Director of Product Innovation will develop a sustainable pipeline of new product ideas for build in order to deliver on the Product team's annual Gross Margin goals and to differentiate Optum Rx in the marketplace.
_Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model._
**Primary Responsibilities:**
+ Lead the search, evaluation, and prioritization to build a pipeline of new product opportunities for ORx' PBM business
+ Facilitate group brainstorming sessions to inspire, solicit, hone, and prioritize innovation ideas
+ Stand-up and conduct routine product innovation sessions with various Optum Rx business teams
+ Develop and review financial models, what-if scenarios, sensitivity tables and the like to evaluate product ideas
+ Create and articulate business case for highest impact product opportunities across the organization
+ Influence SLT, ELT members at ORx, Optum, and UHG in formulating and prioritizing innovation opportunities for maximum organizational impact
+ Develop cross-Optum and UHC relationships to co-develop new enterprise-based product opportunities
+ Build client relationships and councils to solicit feedback and identify potential clients for pilot
+ Develop recommendations to senior executives based on analyses to identify the highest value opportunities to purse
+ Development of dashboards to monitor pipeline value over time
+ Continuously improve innovation processes to increase product success rates and generate highest returns
+ Support product progression through build and execution phases
+ Maintain knowledge of internal products and strategies, competitors, and trends impacting the market
+ Serve as an innovation thought leader to internal and external partners and clients
+ Serve as SME to peers and leads across Product, P&L, and Growth teams on promote or demote validity of new ideas
+ Develop analysts on team in areas of market research and business case analysis to enable them to create senior executive presentations with recommendations
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's degree
+ Extensive product and innovation experience
+ Healthcare experience
+ Healthcare consulting or banking experience
+ Experience delivering results with large-scale, cross-functional teams in highly matrixed organizations
+ Experience succinctly communicating product recommendations and opportunities to senior leaders
+ Experience influencing and leading cross-functional teams in large organizations, navigating ambiguity, and persisting through barriers
+ Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
+ Willingness to travel up to 25%
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MHA) or equivalent experience
+ Experience facilitating focus groups and/or brainstorming sessions
+ Experience product development experience within pharmacy or pharmacy benefits management
+ Background in working directly with healthcare startups to develop solutions to meet internal and/or client needs
+ Experience interfacing directly with health plan and/or employer clients
+ Direct experience in pharmacy and pharmacy benefits management
+ Working knowledge of the payer and health services industry
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM
_At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission._
_Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application._
_Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved._
Implementation Manager - Innovation Economy - Associate
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Head of Innovation and Digitalisation
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Lead Solution Architect for Innovation & Services
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Associate/Senior Associate - Innovation & Technology practice
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Head of Innovation & Technology for B2B Sales

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Head of Innovation & Technology for B2B Sales
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We're Concentrix. The global technology and services leader that powers the world's best brands, today and into the future. We're solution-focused, tech-powered, intelligence-fueled. With unique data and insights, deep industry expertise, and advanced technology solutions, we're the intelligent transformation partner that powers a world that works, helping companies become refreshingly simple to work, interact, and transact with. We shape new game-changing careers in over 70 countries, attracting the best talent.
Our game-changers around the world have devoted their careers to ensuring every relationship is exceptional. And we're proud to be recognized with awards such as "World's Best Workplaces," "Best Companies for Career Growth," and "Best Company Culture," year after year.
Join us and be part of this journey towards greater opportunities and brighter futures.
The Head of B2B Sales Technology & Innovation is responsible for shaping and delivering the technology vision that powers the B2B sales Practice and its execution. This leader defines strategic priorities and the technology roadmap, oversees internal product development and external tech partnerships. He/she works in collaboration with operational teams to educate and guide technological options and support deployment. The role requires close collaboration with operations, innovation, sales & AM, marketing, IT and GPO, as well as external vendors to ensure technology investments align with business goals and deliver measurable impact.
**What you will do in this role**
In everything we do, we believe in doing right by and for people - our clients, their customers, our people, our community, and our planet.
1. Priorities and Roadmap Definition
+ Develop and maintain a comprehensive technology roadmap for B2B sales, aligning with broader business objectives and sales strategies
+ Define and prioritize technology initiatives based on business value, feasibility, and resource availability.
+ Define internal development needs vs. external tech partnerships priorities
+ Set clear goals, milestones, and deadlines for technology adoption and improvements, ensuring transparent progress tracking and accountability
+ Collaborate with stakeholders across sales, customer success, GPO and IT to gather requirements and ensure alignment with organizational needs
2. Internal Product Development
+ Lead internal product teams to design, build, and continuously improve identified top priority B2B sales tools for internal development
+ Prioritize user experience by gathering feedback from internal sales teams, iterating on features, and ensuring solutions are intuitive and drive productivity
+ Establish feedback loops, monitor usage data, and identify areas for enhancement to maximize adoption and impact
+ Ensure internal tools are scalable, flexible, and aligned with long-term business goals
+ Overcome challenges such as resource constraints, resistance to change, and integration with systems through effective change management and communication
3. External Technology Scouting, Assessment, Selection, and Onboarding
+ Continuously scan the market for innovative technologies that can enhance B2B sales processes and outcomes.
+ Assess and compare external solutions, identifying use cases to solve and conducting pilot programs and ROI analyses to inform selection decisions
+ Lead the onboarding and integration of chosen technologies
+ Manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts to ensure favorable terms and ongoing support
4. Technology deployment oversight
+ Enable and work alongside the AM, operations and innovation teams to identify 1/ the business problems to address 2/ the technology solution best fitted for the needs
+ Support them in the testing and deployment of agreed technological solution (AM & operations team accountable for deployment)
+ Work alongside innovation team to define and track B2B sales technology deployment and opportunities
5. B2B Sales Technology enablement & thought leadership
+ Enable and work alongside the AM, operations and innovation teams to identify 1/ the business problems to address 2/ the technology solution best fitted for the needs; and support them in the testing and deployment of agreed technological solution (AM & operations team accountable for deployment)
+ Develop tech thought leadership and enablement materials - enable the teams internally to pitch B2B sales tech solutions; and develop content for external communication on our solutions and our tech point of view
**Your qualifications**
We embrace our game-changers with open arms, people from diverse backgrounds, who are curious and willing to learn. Your natural talent to help others and go beyond WOW for our customers will fit right in with what we do and who we are.
Concentrix is a great match if you have:
+ 12+ years of experience in B2B sales technology, digital innovation, or enterprise product leadership
+ Proven ability to define and execute sales tech roadmaps aligned with business goals
+ Strong background in internal product development with focus on user experience, scalability, and adoption
+ Experienced in scouting, assessing, and onboarding external tech solutions with ROI-driven approach
+ Skilled in cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Operations, IT, Marketing, and Innovation teams
+ Strong change management and communication skills to drive tool adoption and behavior change
+ Track record of developing enablement materials and thought leadership content for internal and external audiences
+ Proficient in managing vendor relationships, contracts, and integrations
+ Familiar with sales tech platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Outreach, Seismic, HubSpot) and enterprise ecosystems
+ Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field; certifications in Agile/Product Management a plus
**Power the best version of you!**
At Concentrix, we invest in our game-changers because we know that when our people thrive, our clients and their customers thrive.
If all this feels like the perfect next step in your career journey, we want to hear from you. Apply today and discover why over 440k+ game-changers around the globe call Concentrix their "employer of choice."
**Concentrix is an equal opportunity employer**
_We're proudly united as one team, one company, globally. We're committed to equal employment opportunities for all candidates and a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All our recruitment practices are based on business needs, job requirements, and professional qualifications, without regard to race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, family or parental status, national origin, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable national laws._
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Head of Innovation & Technology for B2B Sales

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Head of Innovation & Technology for B2B Sales
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We're Concentrix. The global technology and services leader that powers the world's best brands, today and into the future. We're solution-focused, tech-powered, intelligence-fueled. With unique data and insights, deep industry expertise, and advanced technology solutions, we're the intelligent transformation partner that powers a world that works, helping companies become refreshingly simple to work, interact, and transact with. We shape new game-changing careers in over 70 countries, attracting the best talent.
Our game-changers around the world have devoted their careers to ensuring every relationship is exceptional. And we're proud to be recognized with awards such as "World's Best Workplaces," "Best Companies for Career Growth," and "Best Company Culture," year after year.
Join us and be part of this journey towards greater opportunities and brighter futures.
The Head of B2B Sales Technology & Innovation is responsible for shaping and delivering the technology vision that powers the B2B sales Practice and its execution. This leader defines strategic priorities and the technology roadmap, oversees internal product development and external tech partnerships. He/she works in collaboration with operational teams to educate and guide technological options and support deployment. The role requires close collaboration with operations, innovation, sales & AM, marketing, IT and GPO, as well as external vendors to ensure technology investments align with business goals and deliver measurable impact.
**What you will do in this role**
In everything we do, we believe in doing right by and for people - our clients, their customers, our people, our community, and our planet.
1. Priorities and Roadmap Definition
+ Develop and maintain a comprehensive technology roadmap for B2B sales, aligning with broader business objectives and sales strategies
+ Define and prioritize technology initiatives based on business value, feasibility, and resource availability.
+ Define internal development needs vs. external tech partnerships priorities
+ Set clear goals, milestones, and deadlines for technology adoption and improvements, ensuring transparent progress tracking and accountability
+ Collaborate with stakeholders across sales, customer success, GPO and IT to gather requirements and ensure alignment with organizational needs
2. Internal Product Development
+ Lead internal product teams to design, build, and continuously improve identified top priority B2B sales tools for internal development
+ Prioritize user experience by gathering feedback from internal sales teams, iterating on features, and ensuring solutions are intuitive and drive productivity
+ Establish feedback loops, monitor usage data, and identify areas for enhancement to maximize adoption and impact
+ Ensure internal tools are scalable, flexible, and aligned with long-term business goals
+ Overcome challenges such as resource constraints, resistance to change, and integration with systems through effective change management and communication
3. External Technology Scouting, Assessment, Selection, and Onboarding
+ Continuously scan the market for innovative technologies that can enhance B2B sales processes and outcomes.
+ Assess and compare external solutions, identifying use cases to solve and conducting pilot programs and ROI analyses to inform selection decisions
+ Lead the onboarding and integration of chosen technologies
+ Manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts to ensure favorable terms and ongoing support
4. Technology deployment oversight
+ Enable and work alongside the AM, operations and innovation teams to identify 1/ the business problems to address 2/ the technology solution best fitted for the needs
+ Support them in the testing and deployment of agreed technological solution (AM & operations team accountable for deployment)
+ Work alongside innovation team to define and track B2B sales technology deployment and opportunities
5. B2B Sales Technology enablement & thought leadership
+ Enable and work alongside the AM, operations and innovation teams to identify 1/ the business problems to address 2/ the technology solution best fitted for the needs; and support them in the testing and deployment of agreed technological solution (AM & operations team accountable for deployment)
+ Develop tech thought leadership and enablement materials - enable the teams internally to pitch B2B sales tech solutions; and develop content for external communication on our solutions and our tech point of view
**Your qualifications**
We embrace our game-changers with open arms, people from diverse backgrounds, who are curious and willing to learn. Your natural talent to help others and go beyond WOW for our customers will fit right in with what we do and who we are.
Concentrix is a great match if you have:
+ 12+ years of experience in B2B sales technology, digital innovation, or enterprise product leadership
+ Proven ability to define and execute sales tech roadmaps aligned with business goals
+ Strong background in internal product development with focus on user experience, scalability, and adoption
+ Experienced in scouting, assessing, and onboarding external tech solutions with ROI-driven approach
+ Skilled in cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Operations, IT, Marketing, and Innovation teams
+ Strong change management and communication skills to drive tool adoption and behavior change
+ Track record of developing enablement materials and thought leadership content for internal and external audiences
+ Proficient in managing vendor relationships, contracts, and integrations
+ Familiar with sales tech platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Outreach, Seismic, HubSpot) and enterprise ecosystems
+ Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field; certifications in Agile/Product Management a plus
**Power the best version of you!**
At Concentrix, we invest in our game-changers because we know that when our people thrive, our clients and their customers thrive.
If all this feels like the perfect next step in your career journey, we want to hear from you. Apply today and discover why over 440k+ game-changers around the globe call Concentrix their "employer of choice."
**Concentrix is an equal opportunity employer**
_We're proudly united as one team, one company, globally. We're committed to equal employment opportunities for all candidates and a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All our recruitment practices are based on business needs, job requirements, and professional qualifications, without regard to race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, family or parental status, national origin, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable national laws._
Location:
UK, Work at Home, GB
Language Requirements:
Time Type:
Full time
**If you are a California resident, by submitting your information, you acknowledge that you have read and have access to the Job Applicant Privacy Notice for California Residents (
Solution Engineer - Azure App Innovation - (Swiss Market) German Speaker

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SME&C is more than a sales organization, it's a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you'll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
The main goal of a **Digital Technology Specialist** (TS) is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use Microsoft technology and cloud services. The TS is expected to both own and win customers' technical decisions, as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and engagements for Sales Specialists to pursue. As a TS, you work within a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to help educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate, and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision. Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based technologies. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.
**Responsibilities**
+ Own technical discussions with customers leveraging processes and tools, demos and programs; using consultative and/or Challenger method; establish rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams.
+ Be the Trusted advisor and use proactive effort to find and understand customers' pain points and design and offer solutions (with business case) to technical leaders.
+ Drive technical assessments to create a map of the current landscape and to build the technical migration plans, thus building a solid migration business case.
+ Build technology strategy by mapping the agreed customer business outcomes into a appropriate Azure technology framework, resolving concerns, preventing, and removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment and translating technology complexity into business impact. Work with the customer, account team, and partners to orchestrate a technology roadmap for implementation.
+ Be an Azure platform evangelist for App Dev, App Service, GitHub, VS Studio platform scenarios like modernizing and migrating New/Standard Applications and migrating to the cloud.
+ Design the solution using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer's technical decision and meet the customer's needs. Ensure technical decision makers agree with proposed architecture and on the migration plan. Drive POCs and MVPs.
+ Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
+ Scale through partner facilitating and managing partner resources and processes for Pilot/POC/MVP.
+ Owning milestone level actions and proactively closing and communicating to the Specialist.
+ Identify new opportunities within customer engagement and hand it off to the Solution Specialist for pursuit.
+ Maintain and grow expertise in cloud migration, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
**Qualifications**
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
+ Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR equivalent experience.
+ Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
+ Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud).
+ Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud native app hosting through software design, development, deployment and app refactoring/migrations.
+ Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)
+ Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (i.e., Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks, SDKs etc.
**Additional or Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience.
+ Experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
+ Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
+ OR equivalent experience
+ Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Visual Studio).
+ Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.
**Language Requirments: German and English.**
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
Participate in Video Research Project / €23 for 45 Minutes / Support Cybersecurity Innovation
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Join an international research initiative focused on developing protective technology against digital manipulation and synthetic media threats. We need diverse participants for conversational video sessions that advance AI security capabilities.
Research Impact: Your contributions enable the development of systems that:
Identify doctored videos and images
Prevent identity fraud
Combat misinformation campaigns
Secure digital communications
Session Information:
► Format: Structured video conversation
► Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
► Topics: General discussion, no expertise needed
► Support: Full technical guidance provided
► Timing: Book sessions that suit your schedule
► Platform: User-friendly video interface
Compensation: $25 (paid electronically)
(18+)
Fluent English communication skills
Recent laptop/desktop with video capability
Consistent broadband connection
Professional or home setting suitable for video
Interest in supporting technology advancement
Flexible availability across time zones
Agreement to research recording protocols