What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Innovation & Integration position at Nippon Sanso MATHESON?
The Director of Innovation & Integration will lead innovation growth initiatives for Nippon Sanso Matheson (NSM) by acting as the primary bridge between NSM and Nippon Sanson Holdings’ (NSHD) Center of Excellence and Innovation team, accelerating commercialization of new technologies, building strategic partnerships, and ensuring alignment with NSHD’s global innovation priorities. This role will not only convert Japan-originated innovation capabilities into the US market impact, but also feed US market intelligence, customer needs, and technology trends back into NSHD’s global innovation strategy. In addition, this role is expected to support the expansion of new innovation-driven businesses in the US market while strengthening NSHD’s global collaboration model across regions, customers, OEMs, and external ecosystems. Functionally, this role will serve as NSM’s Center of Excellence Integration Lead.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify, prioritize, and commercialize innovation opportunities aligned with NSHD.
- Serve as the primary integration leader for NSM engagement with NSHD‘s CoE organization and Innovation team
- Lead coordination across commercial, operations, R&D, product and engineering teams.
- Lead development of new revenue foundations and future growth engines
- Support expansion of new innovation-driven businesses in the US market
- Support global expansion strategies and regional localization
Technical background preferred, including undergraduate and graduate studies and work experience in technology, innovation and engineering.
This position will report directly to NSM Executive leadership and indirectly to leadership at NSHD headquarters in Japan.
Salary : $225,000 - $250,000