The Role: Business Designer
Contract: Perm
Salary: £50,000 – £60,000
Location: London
Start date: ASAP
The key focus of the Business Designer will be to help deliver business context into every stage of the project (be it designing a new product, service, platform, or business ecosystem) as well as simultaneously helping design broader business strategy and roadmaps for execution.
Business Designers work at the intersection of strategy and design to drive competitive advantage and strategic innovation, whilst constantly being connected to the consumer experience and insights underpinning the user value. As a Business Designer, you will work within a team with a broad set of user-centred design skills to bring a variety of concepts, experiences, and solutions to life and into the market.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in innovation projects from start to finish, alongside members of the I&I team, including working with external partners
- Help co-create profitable new consumer experiences, products, services, platforms, or business ecosystems
- Help develop the strategy, business model, and system that underpins a new idea
- Identify and help develop a go-to-market roadmap for a new solution
- Work with other members of I&I throughout the innovation process to develop user-centred concepts, driven by the functional value proposition
- Develop techniques to test new insight and concept output from the Innovation process in as ‘real world’ away as possible in order to create compelling business cases
- Become the business champion within the innovation process ensuring the revenue opportunity is considered in each stage of development
- To bring specialisms of strategy and business model knowledge to bear on their colleague’s projects, whilst effectively engaging the other team member’s capabilities (i.e. design research, industrial design, interaction design, communication design, strategy)
- To support the team in the proposing, winning, and managing of Innovation projects
Requirements:
- Experience working full-time in the business design field
- Understanding in business first and foremost and some understanding of design, rather than depth in design and some understanding of business
- Educated to degree level or equivalent (discipline is not important, although an MBA, or Masters in Business, Statistics, Marketing, or related field is preferred)
- Must be able to demonstrate experience in working with market and business data in relation to new product (or service) development
- Systems thinking and interest in bringing ideas to market (creating new solutions, launching new products, etc.)
- Business acumen; knowledge or exposure to strategy, marketing, finance, operations, product development, etc.
- Ability to build and interpret financial models and business cases to quantify business impact
- Must be highly creative, innovative and design/consumer-minded
- Must have good presentation skills
- Should be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and last-minute changes
- Must be flexible to travel