WHAT'S NEW WITH APTAR
We have an exciting position open in the Innovation Excellence team: Senior Specialist, Innovation Excellence Enablement
The jobholder ensures that businessrelevant innovation opportunities are supported, framed, routed within the Aptar organization, and owned by the right segment at the right moment-maximizing reuse, speed, and commercial pull. He/she operates entirely through influence, structure, and narrative. The role turns the IE organisation from a set of pillars into a system.
THIS IS HOW YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS
Network coordination
Map innovation initiatives across segments and regions; capture outcomes, learnings, and reuse opportunities; and share best practices to reduce duplication.
Facilitate adoption of created Innovation Excellence frameworks, tools, and processes through workshops, forums, and hands-on facilitation.
Act as a key point of contact for network members; gather feedback, identify improvement opportunities, and escalate systemic issues with proposed solutions.
Liaise and track priorities, surface needs, and enable cross-segment execution.
Prepare dashboards and synthesized updates for IE reviews; collect formal and informal feedback to consolidate pain points and support resource allocation discussions
Support the building of innovation narratives/communication for respective GMD / GLT, ensure the leadership discussion focused on key decisions such as choices, scaling, stopping / spinning out.
Coordinate the PM / best-practices network (community of practice), connecting project leaders across sites and functions to share standards, tools, and delivery learnings.
Plan and facilitate governance and network rhythms: recurring calls, quarterly reviews, working groups, and targeted deep dives on delivery challenges.
Seek alignment on methods and ways of working and ensure rollout of improved processes and tools.
When needed, support Customer Experience Center activities
Best Practices
Support the building of governance for capture and reuse of project learnings, including after-action reviews, retrospectives, and standardised tagging/taxonomy.
Coordinate with Data/IT and functional SMEs to align knowledge assets with tools and processes (e.g., project management systems, collaboration platforms, IP data), and reduce duplication.
Facilitate capability building by enabling training content, onboarding materials, and communities of practice; track adoption and effectiveness of key standards.
Maintain and curate the PM knowledge base (playbooks, templates, SOPs, lessons learned, FAQs), ensuring content quality, version control, and easy discoverability
Help shape the commercial/communication storyline of each opportunity (e.g. "Why now?", "Why this segment?", "What must be proven before BU ownership?")
Through analytics and data in the areas of IP and PPM, support early-stage invention disclosure processes and work closely with Legal to strengthen IP capture, clarity, and reuse.
Maintain and continuously improve innovation, knowledge, and IP repositories to ensure information is accessible, connected, and reusable
WHAT YOU WILL BRING ON THE JOURNEY
Good data analysis skills (data quality, KPI design, insight generation, storytelling with data); advanced Excel and familiarity with BI tools is an advantage.
Demonstrated ability to build and sustain knowledge management practices (content governance, taxonomy, lessons learned) and improve reuse of standards.
Experience in coordinating networks/communities across a matrix organisation; confident facilitator of working groups and stakeholder forums.
Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders without direct authority; pragmatic, service-oriented, and comfortable in ambiguity.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and strong attention to detail; able to translate complex delivery data into clear executive messages.
YOU SHOULD WORK HERE BECAUSE WE:
attract and develop high performing people.
promote a diverse and inclusive work environment.
allow for failure by allowing people to make mistakes through an open and trusting environment.
invest in the development of employees through local, regional and global career opportunities.
contribute to the communities where we reside.
WHAT WE OFFER:
Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus plan.
An Exciting, Diverse and value based working environment
Award-winning Corporate University offering personal development and training opportunities.
Aptar is an equal opportunities employer. We believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.
