Innovation Officer & Project Coordination

Objective of job

This role supports the department’s front door for innovation ideas across BMBS and acts as a flexible contributor to selected strategic, AI and GTM topics. It helps connect internal and external innovation signals, supports light project coordination, and helps the department move faster without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.

In addition, the role supports the department’s market intelligence capability by coordinating relevant internal and external intelligence sources, tracking key developments across own-brand, competitors, macro trends, policy direction and industry hot topics, and supporting the translation of fragmented information into concise, targeted and business-relevant insights for BMBS management and related functions.

Task description

• Support the internal innovation window for BMBS employees and capture worthwhile bottom-up ideas from across functions in a structured and business-oriented way.
• Support the improvement of reusable templates, summary formats, contact maps and working mechanisms for innovation intake, intelligence tracking and project coordination.
• Support light external scouting and maintain a practical view on relevant innovation examples, emerging ideas, selected partners and applicable business trends.
• Support monitoring and consolidation of key intelligence topics including own-brand dynamics, competitor moves, macroeconomic trends, policy and regulatory direction, and major automotive, mobility and consumer industry news, with a focus on relevance to BMBS business priorities.
• Support coordination of internal and external market intelligence resources and maintain working links with key MI stakeholders.
• Support the preparation of concise, high-quality intelligence inputs for BMBS management and related business teams, highlighting what happened, why it matters, potential implications and where attention may be needed.
• Act as an interim project contributor on selected ad-hoc strategic, AI, GTM or innovation-related topics as needed.
• Support overall coordination inside the department, especially for topic intake, follow-up, light knowledge management and selected cross-functional alignment tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or above.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in innovation, market intelligence, strategy support, project coordination, business analysis, digital/product, consulting, startup or other fast-paced corporate roles.
• Strong interest in innovation, market trends, automotive and mobility dynamics, AI, GTM topics and cross-functional business collaboration.
• Solid understanding of collecting, organizing and synthesizing information from multiple sources into concise business insights.
• Ability to prepare clear written summaries, concept notes, briefing materials or intelligence digests.
• Good Chinese and English communication skills.
• Comfort working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities and partial information.
• Exposure to market intelligence, competitor tracking, industry research, policy scanning, strategic planning, business analysis or management reporting is a strong plus.
• Learning agility, strong ownership, good interpersonal skills, business sensitivity and attention to detail.