InfoCert is the largest Certificate Authority in Europe and a leading provider of trust-based business solutions for organizations and businesses to interact online with customers and citizens, in full compliance with EU laws and at the highest level of trust. InfoCert is bringing its leading-edge patented technologies to the European and LatAm markets to accelerate the achievement of a full digital society. The team is agile, committed, and fast moving. InfoCert is part of Tinexta Group, an industrial Group that offers innovative solutions for the digital transformation and growth of companies, professionals and institutions. Based in Italy and present in 9 countries across Europe and Latin America with more than 2,000 employees, Tinexta is active in the strategic sectors of Digital Trust, Cyber Security and Business Innovation.

InfoCert is looking for a Product Innovation Specialist that will work in the key unit of the Innovation Portfolio.

Innovation Portfolio is the unit with the task to align products evolution and R&D activities to InfoCert business strategy.

From incremental innovation to high level design of radical business model changes, Innovation Portfolio coverage span on the three innovation horizons:

- Relevant product evolution - roadmaps and budgeting (3-6 months horizon)

- New products, concept, design, and prototypes (6-12 months horizon)

- R&D activities and financed projects (>12 months horizon)

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct project management for research and innovation projects, often financed through EU funding programmes
• Produce reporting and relevant documentation on the managed projects for internal and external stakeholders
• Make presentations to a diverse public
• Construct and maintain a collaboration network with EU partners
• Collaborate to the ideation and writing of innovation proposals, including the harmonization of different contributions and preliminary workload distribution among participant companies
• Keep informed on state-of-the-art developments in areas of relevance to infocert business
• Monitor funding initiatives of relevance to infocert business

Must-have characteristics:

• University training in a scientific, engineering or management discipline (a comparable work experience may be considered)
• At least 2 years of experience in the management of non-trivial projects (> 20 Man/Months)
• At least 5 years overall working experience in information technology
• Fluent English (comparable to C1 level)
• Availability for international (mostly EU) travels
• Understanding of research and innovation processes

Nice-to-have characteristics:

• Understanding of the business and technology of trust services
• Some experience with agile project management methodologies
• Previous experience in the management of EU funded innovation projects
• Understanding of certification and compliance processes
• Appreciated: French, German and Spanish

- Technology enthusiast

- Good written and oral communication skills

- Open to travel and interact in multi skill, multi language environments

Location: Rome, Milan or Padua. Other location could be evaluated in partial remote working.