UK Research and Innovation

Programme Manager

UK Research and Innovation

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Warrington • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £46,743 - £51,036 per year

About the role

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
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Soft Skills
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