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Head of Innovation & Digitalization Unit 80-100%
- 16 April 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- Sion
Job summary
Join HYDRO in Sion as the Responsable Unité Innovation & Digitalisation! This role offers a stimulating environment and attractive working conditions.
Tasks
- Manage the Innovation & Digitalisation unit, overseeing budget and reporting.
- Structure and animate innovation processes, including ideation and partnerships.
- Supervise digital projects, ensuring quality and continuous improvement.
Skills
- Higher education in organization, innovation management, or digital.
- Proven experience in portfolio management and complex projects.
- Strong communication skills and change management expertise.
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Head of Innovation & Digitalization Unit 80-100%
Head of Innovation & Digitalization Unit
Workplace: Sion
Activity rate: 80-100%
Your mission:
Manage the Innovation & Digitalization unit to strengthen the company’s ability to design, lead, and deliver digital projects in a structured, efficient, and value-oriented manner. Develop a cross-functional innovation dynamic serving business models, operational efficiency, competitiveness, and partnerships. Ensure governance of the digital and innovation portfolio, guarantee overall coherence, and promote a culture of sustainable and collaborative transformation.
Your responsibilities:
- Lead the Innovation & Digitalization unit: organization, budget, reporting, management.
- Structure and facilitate the innovation process: ideation, pipeline, partnerships, acculturation.
- Supervise digital projects: governance, methods, quality, adoption, continuous improvement.
- Define the vision and roadmap for Innovation & Digitalization in connection with Management.
- Ensure cross-functional coherence, maximize created value, and challenge the status quo.
Your skills:
- Higher education (HES/EPF/UNI) focused on organization, innovation management, transformation, or IT/digital.
- Proven experience in portfolio management (PMO) and complex cross-functional projects.
- Experience in team management and cross-functional facilitation.
- Demonstrated competence in developing innovation dynamics.
- Good knowledge of the industrial or energy sector is an asset.
- Excellent communication and change management skills.
- Native French or German speaker with good oral and written knowledge of the other language.
We offer attractive working conditions and a pleasant atmosphere, supported by corporate values. In a stimulating environment, you have the opportunity to contribute to the operation and development of HYDRO.
If this challenge interests you, please send us your complete application file (cover letter, CV, diplomas, certificates) via our online portal. Deadline: April 29, 2026. For more information, the HR team is at your disposal: jobs@hydro.ch
