Job Summary and Responsibilities

Design Thinking & Innovation Facilitation (30%)
Facilitate Design Thinking workshops to identify business, customer, operational, and technology challenges.
Lead ideation sessions, innovation labs, and problem-solving workshops across functions.
Coach teams on human-centered design, innovation methods, and creative problem-solving.
Develop and maintain innovation frameworks, toolkits, templates, and best practices.
Support business teams in identifying, refining, and validating innovation opportunities.
Innovation Programs & Hackathons (30%)
Plan and manage enterprise-wide innovation programs, campaigns, ideathons, and hackathons.
Lead internal innovation challenges that encourage employee participation and idea generation.
Coordinate external hackathons with technology partners, startups, universities, and industry organizations.
Manage end-to-end logistics, communications, judging processes, mentoring, and outcome tracking.
Establish innovation communities and champion networks across the organization.




Idea Incubation & Solution Implementation (25%)
Manage the innovation intake process and evaluate ideas against defined criteria.
Drive selected ideas through discovery, prototyping, proof of concept, pilot, and implementation phases.
Coordinate cross-functional teams to develop and deliver innovation solutions.
Track progress, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes for innovation initiatives.
Support solution adoption and transition into business operations.
Maintain innovation portfolio dashboards
Measure ROI, productivity and customer impact
Innovation Ecosystem & Emerging Technology Enablement (10%)
Identify relevant technology trends, tools, vendors, and startup solutions.
Coordinate collaboration opportunities with external innovation partners.
Support evaluation and experimentation with emerging technologies including AI, automation, analytics, and digital health capabilities.
Communication, Reporting & Culture Building (

📌 Senior Consultant (Bengaluru)
🏢 Acentra Health
📍 Bengaluru