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Strategic Incubation Manager (m/f/d)

  • Lapp Holding SE
  • Stuttgart OL2
  • Project Management, Product Management
  • Research, development, teaching
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LAPP

LAPP is a family-owned company headquartered in Stuttgart and a global leader in cable and connection technology. Founded in 1959, we are still fully family-owned today. With around 5,700 employees, we are operating in over 80 countries – globally connected and regionally rooted. Working at LAPP means more: this is where inventive spirit and a hands-on mentality meet cherished values and tradition.
 
We offer all employees the freedom to develop and pursue new opportunities. Flexibility and personal responsibility are just as important to us as a family-friendly work environment. We value all our colleagues with their talents, ideas and perspectives.
 
After all, every personal contribution counts when it comes to meeting the needs of our customers from various industries together. Together we keep the industry alive: alive by LAPP – alive by YOU!

Your tasks

As a Strategic Incubation Manager, you play a key role in developing and realizing new business ideas and innovative solutions for LAPP. In the role of an intrapreneur, you drive the development of a start-up in a corporate environment and successfully lead projects with passion, initiative and assertiveness. In doing so, you test, validate and implement potential business ideas using the lean start-up method. Specifically, this means:

  • Formulation and testing of hypotheses regarding customer needs through customer interaction and market analysis
  • Development of prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) as well as conducting user tests
  • Design and validation of a business plan for new business models (such as revenue planning, resource requirements) as well as regular communication and presentation of project progress to the management
  • Project management with interdisciplinary team members, including budget responsibility as well as close cooperation with stakeholders within the existing corporate environment
  • Development and implementation of an integration strategy to incorporate the start-up into the LAPP organization

Your profile

  • Degree in business administration, engineering, innovation management, entrepreneurship or a related field
  • Strong interest in or experience as a start-up founder/employee, venture architect, venture builder, (innovation) consultant or as a corporate intrapreneur with a high level of motivation, commitment and willingness to learn
  • Knowledge of the lean start-up method: experience in applying lean start-up principles to develop and validate new business ideas. Experience in prototype development and conducting customer interviews
  • A high level of creativity, commitment, sense of responsibility and determination, as well as flexibility
  • Proficient use of Office 365 and collaboration tools
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills, as well as very good skills in written and spoken German and English

Professional experience in the field of corporate incubators, business development, innovation management or the start-up ecosystem is desirable. We welcome applications from motivated graduates or early-career professionals as well.

Good reasons for LAPP

  • Variety of tasks and responsibilities & plenty of scope for ideas
  • Value-based family business
  • Global player with flat hierarchies
  • Flexible working hours models & home office
  • Work life balance 
  • Social benefits and discounts such as job train ticket & private parcel acceptance
  • Personnel development, onboarding & individual support
  • Annual international soccer- & volleyball tournament
  • Public transport connection directly at station „Lapp Kabel“
  • Sports- & health activities and healthy canteen
  • Consulting in social and care services

Contact

Lapp Holding SE · Oskar-Lapp-Street 2 · 70565 Stuttgart
 
We are happy to answer any questions you may have in advance
  • Rafaela Laux
  • HR Business Partner
  • +49 711 7838-3293