Technology Research & Incubation Specialist

TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.

We are excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

Your team and your responsibilities

• Grasp, and utilise EU Direction for R&D and innovation to inform Toyota of EU state-of-art research.
• Identify, research and incubate new technology seeds to support above point by proactively engaging with relevant European stakeholders.

Your Responsibilities

• You proactively look for the most relevant information sources, analyse, and grasp EU R&D Direction.
• You prepare visual presentations of EU R&D Direction, New Technology Seeds finding and climate change activity updates and interact with TMC with the support of a Japanese colleague.
• You utilise EU direction, TMC indications and potential link to future mobility business (mainly focused on future customer needs) to scout new technology seeds and propose collaboration projects with academia.
• You collaborate with academia experts to define and implement research projects proposals accepted by TMC.
• You manage the contractor that will be supporting your activities (assign tasks, give indications about how to do, regular review and feedback of his work).
• Proactively conduct EU climate change related investigation as indicated by TMC counterpart

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 Your Profile

• You are fluent in English (TME’s business language)
• Strong desire to work in a technology-driven business specializing in EU R&D and dive into a wide range of technologies (any field that can be linked to potential future mobility business).
• Curious, creative and forward thinking to link research proposals to future customer needs/ future business potential.
• Min 3 years of hands-on experience with EU Direction investigation (knowledge of EU R&D environment and funding programmes such as Horizon Europe also required)
• Ability and willingness to learn about a wide range of technologies (from AI to quantum to batteries to advanced materials), enough to grasp the technology potential, discuss with experts and make research proposals.
• Capability to collaborate with a large variety of stakeholders from specific area engineering (fuel cell, batteries, material engineering etc) to legal, A&F, patent, and business area specialists.
• Education: Minimum master’s degree in engineering or Business (MBA).
• Soft Skills:
• Strategic and entrepreneurial mindset
• Strong analytical skills, understanding of complex issues, the ability to quickly absorb information, conceptual and creative problem-solving excellence.
• Exceptional implementation skills and ability to collaborate with various technology field experts.
• Proactive Team player that can take leadership for own activity and seek multi-area stakeholder’s alignment.
• Good planning, organizational skills and open for learning a wide variety of technical and business knowledge to efficiently collaborate with all stakeholders.
• First class written and verbal communication skills; the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a visual/ graphical, simple, logical, and impactful manner.
• Technical skills:
• Possess a good understanding of EU R&D Environment
• Data analytics: good working knowledge of relational databases and analysis tools (i.e. PowerBi)

 Place of employment

• Belgium - Brussels (Zaventem): Toyota Motor Europe, Technical Centre

 We offer
Toyota offers a comprehensive remuneration package, including a bonus scheme and interesting extra-legal benefits. We provide flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. You can also take your work abroad for up to 20 days/year. If you want to know more, please check-out our Career and Benefits page .

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, ethnicity, disability or other personal characteristics. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

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