Intrapreneur/Innovation Lead

Motus Mobility Solutions (MMS) is a world leader in its field of specialisation offering a variety of financial products for motor vehicles. MMS aims to creatively solve problems and add value to people by ensuring Mobility for Good.

MMS forms part of the Motus Group, a leading JSE listed Company in the Automotive Industry where performance is driven by three keystones, 1. Leaders, 2. Innovation & 3. Customer Champions.

MMS is seeking to employ a qualified and experienced Intrapreneur/Innovation Lead. The successful candidate will join a dynamic and highly skilled Innovation Team.

The successful candidate will report directly to the Innovation Manager.

The mission of this role is to identify, test, extract evidence, build & prove scalability of new business opportunities through disciplined experimentation.

This role acts as an internal intrapreneur:

• Identifying high value opportunity or challenge areas from BU Exco feedback analysis
• Translating them into testable business concepts
• Designing & run fast, evidence-based experiments
• Taking validated opportunities through Discovery, Validation, and Scale, with a seamless hand-over to Commercialisation teams in the BU's

This is a hands-on role. You will co-create, test, analyse, decide, build, scale and hand over to business

1. Opportunity & Problem Identification
   • Identify high-value opportunity spaces or business challenges from BU Exco strategic priorities
   • Frame opportunities as clear, testable problem statements and hypotheses
   • Obtain BU sponsorship & buy-in (resourcing & funding)
2. Discovery & Experiment Design (per initiative)
   • Discovery:
     • Analyse the current state of the opportunity, including existing data analyses, gaps & unvalidated assumptions
     • Work with BU to resource (team, capacity, SME) the initiative
   • Experimentation Plan Design:
     • Define experimentation plan at the hand of the initiative maturity ( ie which phase - desirability, validation, scale)
3. Experiment Facilitation & Execution (per initiative)
   • Run and facilitate experiments across multiple teams and concepts in parallel
   • Adapt experiments/tools to the maturity of the concept. (ie survey vs MVP)
   • Maintain momentum while preventing over-engineering or premature scaling
   • Ensure experiments produce evidence, not just insights or opinions
4. Decision-Making & Progress
   • Lead concepts through clear decision gates with BU sponsor
   • Ensure concepts move through phases only once validated
   • Actively retire concepts that are not progressing
5. Scale Readiness & Handover
   • Support validated concepts through scaling experiments (in the real world)
   • Work closely with commercial, operational, data, and technology teams to prepare for handover
   • Ensure a structured transition to Commercialisation, including:
     • Evidence pack
     • Key learnings
     • Embedded systems & processes
     • Clear roadmap for next phases
     • Clear ownership post-handover
6. Reporting & Measurement
   • Track and report on:
     • Experiment progress
     • Learnings and decisions
     • Pipeline health (Discovery / Validation / Scale)
   • Provide early warning on stalled or low-signal projects
   • Work with data to update ROIC / value hypotheses as evidence evolves
   • Contribute to building an organisational memory of what worked, what didn't, and why
7. What Success Looks Like
   • High-value opportunities are identified and tested quickly
   • Teams move from opinions to evidence
   • Fewer big-bet failures, more small-bet learnings
   • Data analysis and facilitation of data driven decision making at operational and executive level
   • Validated opportunities transition smoothly into Commercialisation

• 5+ years' experience specifically relating to testing new approaches, products, concepts
• Proven track record of taking ideas from problem framing through to validation and scale
• Experience working inside complex corporates, with teams balancing innovation alongside day-to-day roles
• Extensive project management experience, preferably cross-functional

• Mastery of Testing Business Ideas - the Scientific Method preference
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and incomplete data
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders
• Advanced written and presentation skills
• Ability to work with extensive data to extract meaningful insights

• Naturally curious and opportunity obsessed
• Commercially minded - always asking so what?
• Comfortable to go where the evidence leads
• Able to manage multiple experiments and teams simultaneously
• Resilient, pragmatic, and allergic to innovation theatre
• Collaborative approach to problem solving
• Systems and Solutions based thinking

• Relevant tertiary qualification (degree or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of working experience in automotive industry
• Demonstrable portfolio of prior ventures, or innovation programs participation is essential
• Digital Marketing experience preferred