Job Tile: Harwell Health Cluster Development Manager
Salary: £58,589 - £65,100 dependent on experience
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time ( We understand the importance of work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities with candidates)
Location: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire
Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business team explore the unknown and turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. Whether it's sending probes into space or finding new ways to treat cancer, everyone here plays a vital role in making a positive difference to society.
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About Us:
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of Europe's largest research organisations. Through combining world-class facilities with major international collaborations, and some of the world's most talented staff, we are driving ground-breaking advances in science and technology.
STFC's Business and Innovation Directorate (BID) connects STFC's facilities, research and technology programmes to business and the wider economy, delivering UK economic growth through spin-out companies, growing the research and innovation campuses, attracting inward investment and collaborative industrial R&D.
STFC is one of nine partner organisations that have been brought together to create UK Research and Innovation (UKRI); a new organisation with a vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
Our Benefits:
UK Research and Innovation recognises and values employees as individuals and aims to provide a pay and rewards package that motivates staff to perform to the best of their ability. The reward package includes a flexible working scheme, a defined benefit pension scheme, 30 days annual leave allowance plus 10.5 bank holiday/privilege days and a number of other benefits.
About The Role:
We now have an excellent opportunity for a talented Business Development Manager within the STFC BID to ensure the continued growth and success of the Harwell Health Cluster.
Harwell Health Cluster is a world-leading healthcare innovation hub founded on inter-disciplinary collaboration between physical and life sciences. Areas of focus include ageing, drug discovery and environmental impact on human health.
The objective of the cluster is to boost healthcare growth and innovation and validate novel technologies for the benefit of patients through growth and better exploitation of Harwell's unique combination of facilities and talent. We are creating an ever more vibrant ecosystem in which companies can flourish and interact more freely and collaborate more easily with brilliant academics and researchers, accessing state of the art equipment and advanced research capabilities. Harwell can help companies realise new and better ways for developing and commercialising advances in research and technology at the leading edge of science.
You will lead the development of Harwell Health Cluster, working with cluster development partners to support new and potential investors into Oxfordshire primarily through the focus of the health and life sciences sector.
Key Responsibilities:
* Driving the definition and implementation of the Health Cluster development strategy and identifying critical success factors to attract key-players and accelerate the growth of the cluster by engaging in new opportunities.
* Developing and maintaining metrics of Health Cluster performance and growth and supporting a robust evidence base for economic metrics around company numbers, investment, and other agreed metrics.
* Targeting a number of high growth opportunities that fit with the strategic vision, and building partnerships that will lead to the growth and effectiveness of the cluster.
* Working closely with key stakeholders at Harwell Campus such as Health Innovation Networks and Rosalind Franklin Institute.
* Building on the synergies between Life and Physical sciences to create a vibrant and growing Cluster population that encompasses the entirety of commercial value chain.
* Leading cluster initiatives to exploit the cross-disciplinary activities inherent in the Harwell Campus and across Oxfordshire.
* Promoting the offer of the Health Cluster and sector locally, nationally, and internationally.
* Building links with the broad range of multidisciplinary stakeholders locally to support the role of Oxfordshire in increasing the competitiveness of the UK in Health Tech business.
* Working with the Harwell Campus Business Development Director to manage the overall implementation of Campus strategic partnerships, programmes and events linked to Health and life sciences activities on the Campus.
* Articulating the Health Cluster, and the wider Oxfordshire Health and Life Sciences sector offer to businesses that are contemplating growing or investing via event attendance and managing the generation of leads from this, from inception through to delivery of an agreed development, partnering and funding plan.
* Working with the Daresbury North West Health Cluster on mutual objectives.
Person Specification:
Essential:
* Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
* Demonstrated understanding of the health and life sciences sector, services and applications. Experience gained in at least one key Health sector, (Pharma, medical devices and wearables, digital health, NHS).
* Experience in the implementation of development strategies and in the implementation of collaborative programmes and working across public and private sectors.
* Excellent knowledge of the SME community.
* Excellent knowledge of the investment landscape and mechanisms in the UK and internationally.
* Able to support development of new strategies, concepts, solutions and ideas in response to emerging issues of importance to the organization.
* Evidence of effective communication skills (oral & written) delivering complex messages to a wider range of audiences.
* Clear and effective negotiation, influencing and networking skills with a demonstrative ability to influence the thinking and actions of others at all levels.
* Excellent project management skills with experience of the whole project lifecycle including appraisals and finance.
* Ability to quickly learn and understand new and cross-cutting technologies. Self-motivated, pro-active and innovative with excellent planning and organisational skills Trustworthiness and discretion when handling confidential information in a professional manner.
Join us and discover what's possible!
UKRI - UK Research and Innovation
UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
Supporting some of the world's most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.
More information can be found at www.ukri.org .
Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI .
How we support EDI in the workforce
At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit 'How we support EDI in the workforce'.
Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who opt into the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria for the role. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
How to apply
Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the 'experience' section of the application.
UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion - a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.
The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.
The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation where curiosity-driven, blue-skies thinking meets practical, application-led science and engineering. Our goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people - and more broadly to the world.
One of Europe's largest research organisations, we're trusted to support, enable and undertake cutting-edge projects in an amazing diversity of fields. Through world-class facilities and people, we're driving ground-breaking advances in science, engineering, computing and technology. Our research seeks to understand the Universe from the largest astronomical scales to the tiniest constituents of matter, yet creates impact on a very tangible, human scale.
For more information about STFC please visit https://stfc.ukri.org/
You can also visit our careers site https://www.stfccareers.co.uk/