Technology Scouting Analyst APAC

Key Responsibilities

• Explore technology trends across geographies to support Airbus future challenges while detecting the right start-ups, SMEs, research centers and companies to partner with.
• Understand the essence of the needs of our company that could be addressed by the start-up/company with the objective of speeding up solution-making and generating a positive impact for Airbus.
• Anticipate trends that could disrupt the future of the aerospace industry and evaluate them to identify and incubate potential new businesses preparing to be accelerated.
• Support and guide the innovation/research internal and external ecosystem in its development with the objective of increasing the impact (Value, ROI, etc.) and visibility of Airbus as an innovative & sustainable company.
• Deploy Intelligence cycle to capture best-in-class emerging technologies that will disrupt Airbus future challenges.
• Digest extensive amounts of information coming from multiple flows, sources, networks, platforms, and to assess whether they are academic/technical, economics, business, finance, related etc.
• Consolidate dedicated technology reports, synthesis, analysis or presentations, to be shared and marketed internally.
• Implement, activate and follow monitoring tools to be permanently and timely up-to-date with all relevant emerging technology wherever the source.
• Develop appropriate push/pull methodology and ways of working to balance the activity between the capture of internal customers needs and the push of selected emerging technologies.
• Scout for start-up solutions based on specifications formulated by internal challenge owner, be able to compare the solutions from a technical (features) point of view and to assess the start-up robustness based on dedicated criteria (patents, founders, funding, etc.).