Harwell Health Cluster Development Manager

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

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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!