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Rawand AlmadiRA

Rawand Almadi

Innovation Manager

$700/day
Dubai, AE
8-15 years
Innovation
Communication
Client management
Strategic thinking
Mitigating risks

Average response time: 1 hour

About Rawand

Growth-focused business professional skilled at synthesizing creative and digital ideas into a viable business proposition. Experience in formulating creative project strategy, corporate innovation, and managing cross-functional teams through the delivery of successful innovation projects.

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Dubai (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Oliver Wyman
    Managing Solution Designer
    May 2023 - Today (3 years and 1 month)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    ■ Design and facilitate both simple and complex ideation workshops and experiences.
    ■ Contributed to the development of the "Change Management" framework to ensure leadership teams are prepared for transformations across diverse industries, including financial services, government, sports and entertainment, and energy and natural resources.
    Design Thinking Client management Stakeholder management Co creation
  • Dubai World Trade Centre
    Senior Manager - Innovation
    February 2020 - April 2023 (3 years and 2 months)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    ■ Report to Innovation VP and Responsible for building innovation strategy & roadmap in addition to managing the full innovation cycle starting from Ideation, through acceleration all the way to pilot launch.
    ■ Manage cross-functional teams while testing hypotheses to implement and deliver market-fit solutions.
    ■ Work similarly close with both; business and technology stakeholders to identify innovation challenges & opportunities based on customer and evaluate & select relevant solutions.
    • Explore Open Innovation opportunities and involve accelerators and entrepreneurs in DWTC ideation process
    Design Thinking Innovation management Innovation Ideation Prototype
  • Majid Al Futtaim Retail
    Innovation Manager
    February 2018 - February 2020 (2 years)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    ■ Advise upper management on Innovation strategy& roadmap for the first Carrefour Innovation Lab and managed the full innovation cycle from Ideation to pilot launch.
    ■ Manage development of the internal Innovation Mobile App with internal and external technical teams in addition to managing the content of the app and interacting with idea owners.
    ■ Deliver Innovation training and awareness sessions for all employees across stores.
    ■ Organize Hackathons/Ideathons and provide employees with platform, tools and techniques that helped them innovate.
    Design Thinking Innovation strategy Innovation process Ideation sessions
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Education

  • Design Thinking Co creator (IBM) Design Thinking Practitioner (IBM) Certified Innovation ■
    Global Innovation Management Institute GIMI
    2025
    Design Thinking Co creator (IBM) Design Thinking Practitioner (IBM) Certified Innovation ■
  • Organizational Design for Digital Transformation
    MIT Sloan
    Organizational Design for Digital Transformation
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Skill set

Empathy
Problem solving
Design Thinking
Stakeholder management
Co creation
Innovation management
Ideation
Prototype
Innovation strategy
Innovation process
Ideation sessions
Project Management
Collaboration
Entrepreneurship

Categories

  • Other