Business Innovation and Development Manager

About Corporate Development Corporate Development is part of Group Strategy and reports into the Group Strategy division led by Maxime Dehaene. Our teamdrives strategic clarity and discipline across corporate development activities. We ensure that growth initiatives, strategic partnerships, participations and innovation efforts are visible, have clear strategic intent, ownership and governance, and are managed with explicit scale-up or stop rules. Our ambition is to drive focused growth with lasting impact. We actively help create and accelerate growth, rather than merely observe or coordinate it. Our work supports the Proximus Leadership Squad and Board of Directors through rigorous analysis, clear choices and output-driven recommendations. One mandate. Three complementary roles. INCUBATE Lead a limited number of selected growth domains within Corporate Development until they can graduate to a clear business landing zone or are stopped. ENABLE Help strategic growth opportunities in Business Units move from ambition to committed execution, while the BU retains P L and delivery ownership. CREATE VISIBILITY Provide a consolidated view of group-wide growth, partnerships, participations and ecosystems, and turn transparency into focused challenge and action. The role you are applying for We are looking for a Business Innovation and Development Manager who can contribute across all three Corporate Development roles, with a primary focus on building and activating a systematic approach to identify new growth potential aligned with the Proximus Amplify strategy. The successful candidate will translate signals, market developments, technological shifts and internal strategic priorities into a qualified growth pipeline. Opportunities may subsequently be incubated within Corporate Development or transferred into a Business Unit landing zone, where Corporate Development enables acceleration and decision-making. Your core mission Design, maintain and continuously improve a practical growth identification framework, including opportunity sourcing, strategic fit, market attractiveness, asset advantage, economics, feasibility, landing-zone logic and stage-gate criteria. Put the framework into action and build a high-quality, evidence-based pipeline of growth opportunities in or adjacent to the core. Convert promising signals into clear opportunity theses, strategic options, business cases, recommendations and concrete next steps for senior management and Board-level consideration. Drive selected opportunities through early validation, with clear ownership, governance, resource requirements, decision gates and scale-up or stop recommendations. Key responsibilities Identify and qualify new growth potential Combine outside-in opportunity scanning with inside-out insight from Proximus assets, capabilities, customer needs and strategic priorities. Track developments in the telecommunications and IT landscape, distinguishing structural shifts from short-lived hype. Benchmark peers and adjacent players to identify proven or emerging growth. Assess strategic fit with Amplify, including customer impact, infrastructure, future capabilities and transversal priorities such as AI, sustainability and regulation. Build and mobilize the growth ecosystem Create strong working relationships with the GST strategy teams supporting B2C and B2B, GST CMI, the Business Units, technology teams and other relevant functions. Structure opportunity inflow from startups and scale-ups, working with ecosystem partners such as imec.istart and relevant regional or European venture funds. Engage with specialist boutiques focused on telecommunications growth opportunities. Maintain and be active in relevant external networks across venture, research, industry, technology and innovation ecosystems, and convert these relationships into actionable opportunities. Shape opportunities for incubation or enablement Determine whether an opportunity should be incubated or activated in a BU landing zone. For incubation: establish initial proposition, ecosystem, sponsor commitment, roadmap, economics and graduation hypothesis. For BU-led opportunities: bring an independent and strategically driven perspective, structure options, reduce ambiguity and accelerate decisions without taking over BU accountability. Prepare concise, decision-ready materials and recommendations for the Proximus Leadership Squad, relevant management committees and the Board of Directors. Role-model AI-enabled growth portfolio development management Use AI across research, market scanning, synthesis, benchmarking, scenario development, business-case preparation and knowledge management. Continuouslyidentify where AI can improve the quality, speed and repeatability of Corporate Development work. Act as a visible role model who helps colleagues adopt effective AI-enabled ways of working. Expected outputs Growth identification framework : A pragmatic, repeatable method with clear criteria, decision gates, ownership and governance. Qualified growth pipeline: A focused set of evidence-based opportunities, prioritised by strategic fit, value potential, feasibility and landing-zone readiness. Opportunity theses and cases: Sharp strategic narratives, market and technology assessment, economics, risks, scenarios and recommended actions. Ecosystem engine: Productive internal and external relationships that generate differentiated insight, deal flow and execution options. Decision-ready recommendations: Concise, fact-based outputs that enable senior management and Board-level choices, including GO, STOP, SCALE or TRANSFER recommendations.