Programme Manager

UK Research and Innovation

Programme Manager leading DTC operations and developing support programmes for Biotech and Health tech at Daresbury. Collaborating with start-ups to support their innovation journeys while achieving local targets.

Posted 4/13/2026full-timeWarrington • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £46,743 - £51,036 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the current DTC operations and support the development of new support programmes at Daresbury.
Agree and deliver all targets for the DTC programmes at Daresbury (e.g., # start-ups joining, % graduation rates, # case studies, impact created, etc.).
Ensure a high-quality deal-flow of applications DTC programmes by identifying potential applicants and supporting them to develop and submit competitive applications to the programme.
Ensure that start-ups supported by the DTC Daresbury programmes complete their engagements with the DTC and fully exploit the technical and business support on offer.
Own the operational relationships and day-to-day information sharing with colleagues at our co-funding partners, including UKRI-BBSRC and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (this includes periodic reporting on programme progress).
Cultivate relationships with regional organisations in the North West providing business support, funding and investment to start-ups.
Collaborate with STFC and co-funder Marketing and Comms teams to promote the impact of the DTC (quantitative and anecdotal).
Work closely with STFC’s cluster development teams to maximise the impact of our support for technology businesses.
Produce timely, complete and appropriate business, financial and operational reports as required.
Support the DTC Lead to develop and refresh the overall strategy for Biotech and Health programmes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience of working with technology-based SMEs and knowledge of the support that they require to take a product to market, ideally through previous experience in business incubation and/or technology transfer, and ideally in the biotech and health tech domains.
Ability to evaluate the quality and maturity of start-up business plans (e.g. start-up team & skills, value proposition and product/market fit, go to market approach, etc.) and to provide constructive, action-oriented feedback and recommendations.
Business development experience with demonstratable evidence of growing and managing a pipeline of business opportunities.
A track record in owning and managing one or more projects / programmes to time and on budget.
Good organisational skills such as prioritization, resource management, and stakeholder management.
Excellent communication, networking and presentation skills, including the ability to interface between technical and commercial audiences.
Ability to travel within the UK and abroad.

Benefits

Comp & perks

30 days holiday (in addition to 10.5 bank holidays and privilege days).
Flexible working hours.
An excellent defined salary pension scheme.
Easily accessible public transport links/ free parking.
Excellent learning and development opportunities.
Cycle to work scheme

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Hard Skills & Tools

business incubationtechnology transferbusiness developmentproject managementpipeline managementapplication evaluationreportingstrategic developmentfinancial analysismarket analysis

Soft Skills

organizational skillsprioritizationresource managementstakeholder managementcommunication skillsnetworking skillspresentation skillsfeedback and recommendationsrelationship cultivationcollaboration