Senior Partnerships Manager (Health)

About the Role
The responsibility of this role is to lead, manage and deliver business partnerships support to the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FMD). This role will support researchers in FMD to develop academic research partnerships with businesses and grow the Faculty’s commercial portfolio.

The post-holder will be based in the established Business Development Team that is part of QMUL’s Research Services Directorate. Effective communication and relationship management across multiple and varied stakeholders is a key requirement. The post-holder will work very closely with the academic staff of the Faculty as well as other Professional Services staff, particularly those who are functionally aligned with business engagement, research development and management including the Joint Research Management Office and Queen Mary Innovation Ltd. The post-holder will line-manage a team comprised of Business Development Managers.

About You
You will possess a post-graduate qualification in a relevant specialist area, with a degree or equivalent experience and a PhD in a scientific discipline being desirable. You will have significant experience in business development and engagement within a research-intensive HEI, a successful track record of handling high value commercial negotiations and a high-level understanding of research funding mechanisms, commercial research and development pricing. You will demonstrate excellent communication, interpersonal, project management, IT and time management skills, with the ability to build working relationships inside and outside the university. Familiarity with systems like WorkTribe and Salesforce and other related systems are essential. Experience of contributing to strategic planning and mentoring staff is essential.

About the School Department
The role is based in the Business Development team and is part of QMUL’s Research Services Directorate. The Business Development team comprises approximately 20 staff supporting research and knowledge partnerships with business and industry, business-led collaborations, consultancy and contracts with public sector organisations.

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.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

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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