Innovation Lead

Innovation Lead – Associate Manager (CL8) – Business, Product & Commercial Strategy The Dock is Accenture’s flagship R&D and Global Innovation Center, based in Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock. As an incubation hub for the next generation of AI and GenAI agentic solutions, The Dock brings together a global community of business strategists, designers, engineers, data scientists, and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to solve some of the world’s hardest problems and create transformational products and services that help industries thrive in the face of unprecedented change. From shaping the future of work with intelligent systems to building breakthrough digital platforms, our team operates across the entire innovation spectrum, from exploration to real-world deployment. At The Dock, we experiment boldly, collaborate openly, and build the future in real time. We are looking for an Innovation Lead – Associate Manager Level to join the Business, Product & Commercial Strategy team. Our team leads and manages projects, programmes and portfolios required to define, develop and pilot new market-leading business propositions in The Dock. The successful candidate will be a commercially minded innovator, someone who can turn emerging ideas and technologies into viable, scalable business opportunities and who has the experience and methodologies to back this up. This role blends product strategy, market insight, and commercial acumen to shape new propositions from concept through to market launch. You’ll identify where innovation meets real business value, build strong commercial cases, define pricing strategy and guide multidisciplinary teams to bring high-impact products and platforms to life. These business propositions can take the form of pilotable assets, offerings, software and ecosystem plays. No two innovation projects are exactly alike. REQUIRED SKILLSET: Lead and own projects end-to-end, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes that exceed client expectations, with a keen eye on operational disciple and financial accountability – these projects can be technical, commercial or strategic in nature Drive project success through effective scoping, delivery and opportunity spotting Build trust and act as the face of work with internal and external stakeholders Empower and develop your team to grow their knowledge, respond to demands and deliver high quality outcomes Identify and shape new innovation, product or commercial opportunities for clients, Accenture and our ecosystem Take an active role in shaping and delivering value through client-facing and internal initiatives, facilitate engaging and outcome-driven client sessions Operate effectively within large, matrixed organizations, balancing diplomacy, influence, and decisiveness to achieve outcomes in complex stakeholder environments Define and guide overall vision, roadmap and backlog of work across the project lifecycle Apply your industry or capability expertise, training and experience to deliver business, innovation and commercial outcomes A commercial mindset, an ability to identify and quantify a commercial opportunity and translate this into a commercial minded go-to-market approach business case and pricing strategy