Consultancy Support Manager

About the Role

This job focuses on promoting and supporting consultancy work at QMUL. You will work closely with academic colleagues to create consultancy from their networks, and to understand their capabilities and expertise to match with opportunities. You will work closely with internal colleagues to develop and manage consultancy opportunities, ensuring they comply with QMUL policy, are commercially viable and profitable, benefit both academics and QMUL, and are smoothly set up with confirmed contracts and budgets. This role is client facing (internal and external) and will be expected to be on campus three days per week to work with academic and professional service colleagues.

About You

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with academic colleagues and external clients. You will need to be able to build strong cross-functional working relationships with colleagues in different teams. You will understand the importance and value of the academic community undertaking commercial work through consultancy, be curious to support academics in specialised areas, and have strong commercial acumen to develop fee offers and budgets. You will have excellent organisational skills to manage a portfolio of opportunities at different stages, working in a planned way to meet deadlines and be proactive in driving opportunities and resolve issues such as contract terms.

About the Department

The role is based in the Business Development team as part of QMUL’s Research Services Directorate. The team develops research and commercial based knowledge projects with external organisations from business, industry, government, and voluntary sectors.

Our role is to support our academics and clinicians, and those who work with them across our sites, helping them to conduct world-class research.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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