Nick Haller

Innovation coach (90%) and martial artist who enjoys exercising in the mountains and working creatively.

Innovation coach: recognising development potential.

Your curiosity for new things is a part of each phase of your work. Your goal-oriented coaching gets projects under way, drives them ahead and thus makes a major contribution to the company.

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Uncovering innovation potential every day.

Innovation knows no routine. That’s why a varied and inspiring day’s work awaits you. You approach your work in an agile, fresh, flexible and yet practical way every day. This is because your primary goal is to achieve results quickly and cost-effectively. In all situations, you recognise where an innovation or project requires your support: you skilfully sound out potential using innovation methods. You monitor and give impetus to these processes, offer advice, host workshops and develop prototypes together with your stakeholders.

Focus on innovation.

You work hand in hand on a daily basis with experts and stakeholders from various specialist units. You see interdisciplinary approaches as an opportunity, and support the specialist units in their development. As a team, you pursue the same goal: to keep pace with the times and actively shape the future of Swiss mobility based on customer requirements. As only agile, diverse and enthusiastic teams can achieve great things.

International inspiration.

Our innovation coaches look for innovative technologies and solutions as well as suitable development partners across the globe with the aim of introducing new technologies and creating fresh opportunities at SBB. For this reason, innovation coaches work for SBB in Shanghai, Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. They seek inspiration locally and decide which visions of the future are of interest to SBB, sharing their newly acquired specialist knowledge in regular exchanges with the Swiss innovation team.

As a positive, inspiring personality, you want to create experiences that move people. To do so, you rely on your integrated, strategic thinking. In addition to holding a university degree, you have proven problem-solving and consulting skills. Your experience in managing innovation projects in a dynamic environment will help you, as will your methodological skills in the area of innovation (agile, design thinking, etc.).

SBB is committed to modern ways of working. Mobile working means being able to work outside the SBB workplace. This can be at home, on the move or at a customer’s premises. The train is also our workplace, and time spent working while commuting naturally also counts as working time for us.

Thanks to Work Smart, our innovation coaches enjoy greater flexibility in organising their professional commitments and their leisure time. They can manage their own time, and choose and organise their projects themselves.

Given the scale of our tasks and the responsibility we shoulder, we at SBB rely on teamwork. Togetherness and a sense of community are what count for us. Even if your job or your daily routine as an innovation coach is characterised by a large amount of professional freedom, weekly exchanges within the team and networking within the organisation play a key role. All the more so since you routinely work in changing team formats.