Innovation Program Leader

• Drive the innovation system and lead LNCA’s enterprise innovation roadmap, maintaining milestone progress, transparency, and recurring reporting cadences with steering committees.
• Codify and steward innovation standards (e.g., VOC protocols, experimentation templates, KPI dashboards).
• Facilitate cross-business unit alignment, organization-wide communication, development and prioritization of innovation objectives & key results.
• Identify, socialize, and scale successful practices using tools such as Kaizen, Design Thinking, and Lean Canvas.

• Coach divisional Innovation Owners and business unit champions in experimentation, rapid iteration, and customer insight integration.
• Partner with external innovation strategists on training, toolkit development, and capability-building.
• Advance project kill switch discipline, enabling trade-offs, stopping low-impact work, and amplifying what works.
• Curate and share learning stories and case studies that highlight experimentation outcomes and inspire culture change.

• Ensure innovation teams are prepared, resourced, and unblocked for incubation cohorts.
• Translate emergent learning from incubator projects into anticipated value to Divisional Presidents.
• Partner with external strategic design and facilitation teams to evolve cohort design and maturity.

• 7+ years of experience in innovation program management, transformation, R&D, or operations within a matrixed or global organization.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and translating strategy into execution.
• Fluency in innovation and delivery methods (Agile, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Phase-Gate, OKRs).
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills—able to synthesize complexity into clear, compelling narratives.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and influencing without formal authority.
• Strong cultural awareness with the ability to sustain energy and alignment across functions.
• Influence without authority while showcasing organizational dexterity.
   

• Each division has a healthy, visible innovation pipeline supporting Legrand’s organic growth goal by 2030.
• A consistent innovation operating rhythm is established and adopted across divisions, with transparent portfolio reporting.
• Cross-functional teams are actively shipping validated concepts, not just ideas.
• Innovation KPIs and dashboards drive focus, accountability, and better decisions.
• Leaders and teams experiment more confidently, share insights faster, and stop low-value initiatives sooner.
• The innovation system sustains momentum—and you are recognized as the person who keeps it moving.

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us 

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