Regional Project Innovation and Information Manager

**Requisition ID**:270764**
- **Relocation Authorized**:Limited (e.g. Development Assignment)**:

- **Telework Type**:Part-Time Telework**:

- **Work Location**:Riyadh**

**Company Overview**

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Oil, Gas & Chemicals; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to are our values - ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our Commitments - integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

**About The Role**:
The Regional Innovation Manager works closely with Functional team, Projects and Regional managers to expand Bechtel’s innovation footprint in the region, develop the end-to-end Information Management strategy, and digital solutions for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) region’s unique customer requirements.

In this role you will be supporting proposals, projects and focusing on growing and showcasing Bechtel’s Innovation capability and maturity while expanding culture of Innovation within KSA including soliciting, developing, piloting, and implementing innovation opportunities related to ES&H, Construction, Productivity, Sustainability.

As part of this role you will be accountable for developing and delivering execution plans, training plans and required upskilling associated with EPC workflows and digital solutions to the organization and projects. This role will be reporting with the Infrastructure GBU Innovation Manager.

**Responsibilities**:

- Identify innovation opportunities for prospects and projects working closely with the Infrastructure PIIM team, including reviewing existing Bechtel Innovate innovations menu and suggesting potential new opportunities for additional exploration, contributing to the GBU’s innovation strategy and roadmaps.
- Understand, document, and implement applicable innovation use-cases, including required modifications, in support of project scope and Bechtel’s role and enhance the Technical Readiness Level (TRL) as appropriate.
- Support proposals & project pursuits by showcasing Bechtel’s experience and capability in deployment of innovation & digital solutions.
- Collaborate with the functional team and projects to identify customer value proposition, challenges and priorities, develop key technologies and solution to support the prototyping, piloting, and scaling of applicable emerging technologies to maximize innovation value.
- Contribute to developing, communicating, and institutionalizing standardized process, digital, and data workflows within projects and execution units.
- Serve as a liaison between PIIM functional leads and projects within the region to support project SMEs, subcontractors and IT in aid of the seamless implementation of project impactful innovations and digital solutions.
- Establish the impact measures for identified innovations and coordinate with Project Controls the value capture approach and applicable trend program items to track.
- Develop and populate value/ROI business cases collaboratively with cross-functional team members for prioritized innovations to capture innovation impact, cost savings, and project benefit to support the strategy.
- Be the conduit for Bechtel innovations to Infrastructure GBU, promoting the culture of innovation in a structured, practical, customer-focused, and value-driven manner.
- Facilitate focused ideation campaigns as required to generate innovation ideas to address critical project needs. Identify new patent opportunities and coordinate with project legal and supply chain leadership.
- Conduct project review for best practices, lessons learned and deployment status per agreed innovation use-cases and seek opportunities for improvement.
- Capture issues, lessons learned, solicit idea/prototype/pilot feedback, and share these amongst key stakeholders and with solution providers.
- Develop progress, quality, and other reports and innovation KPI dashboards for project management.
- Communicate and present the results of the innovation implementations, KPIs and key status updates, highlighting measurable impact and further development opportunities.
- Conduct regular market assessments to keep track of the new solution providers across the critical functional areas per identified use cases and project value-based prioriti