Business Engagement Partner (Medicine and Health)

Role Summary

The role of Business Engagement Partner requires an enthusiasm for people, the skill to interact with high-level corporate professionals and academics, experience of delivering against KPIs, along with the ability to passionately translate complex information into a compelling case for support in both verbal and written form.

As part of the Research Strategy & Services Division, the Business Engagement Partner will report to the Assistant Director for Business Engagement and Research Impact (CMH) and work closely with College Hub Research Support Managers and colleagues who provide comprehensive research support across the full project lifecycle—from proactive research development and partnership building to proposal preparation, costing and pricing, due‑diligence checks, and research agreement negotiations.

Main Duties

Developing corporate relationships:

• Co-deliver a College Business Engagement strategy with College Assistant Director for Business Engagement and Research Impact (BERI) and the College Business Engagement Partners
• Work with senior academic colleagues to bring relationships to fruition, securing income and opportunities that deliver against targets.

Institutional relationships:

• Advocate for research and business engagement across the institution, across the Professional Services and the Academy.

Organisational Understanding:

• Understand the breadth of the University and appreciate the differences in personalities, roles and ways of working throughout the University and its constituent Colleges.

Strategic Thinking and Perspective:

• Understand and convey the University’s Strategic Framework, its education and research priorities, and the implications for projects.
• Recognise and enhance the value of local, regional, national and international partnerships to deliver value for projects/University.

Communication:

• Assist in the provision of expert, credible and influential advice to the most senior internal and external stakeholders, including the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor, Heads of College and academic colleagues.
• Be an able and willing internal and external ambassador for the University who can use external networks for personal and institutional benefit.

Performance and Resource Management:

• Ensure that the best possible business engagement service is delivered to the College, Professional Services, and the University.
• Maintain detailed records on the CRM database.
• efficient working.
• Any other duties commensurate with the grade.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications) 
• Significant relevant practical experience – where no equivalent qualification is held substantial practical relevant experience and expertise in a series of progressively more demanding roles will be required.
• Experience in planning and organising a comprehensive pipeline of industry‑collaboration opportunities, ensuring these are effectively managed to deliver against stretching project targets.
• Ability to balance the reactive and proactive aspects of the role, generating own work but also responding the requests from the College Assistant Director for Business Engagement and Research Impact and external business partners.
• Have an understanding of the different drivers for business and academic stakeholders and how they can be brought together successfully. 

Informal enquiries to Florence Gannon, email: f.gannon@bham.ac.uk 

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