Requisition ID: 26040
Location:
Newcastle, GB
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Working Pattern: Full Time
Posted Date: 21 Aug 2023
Salary: £33,966 to £36,024 with progression to £44,263 per annum
Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Closing Date: 11 September 2023
The Role
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic individual to join the NIHR Innovation Observatory’s Industry Programme. The post holder will work closely with our Industry Partnership Lead to develop and deliver a portfolio of projects that will support the life sciences industry drive innovation into health and care. The post holder will have knowledge of the life sciences sector in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health and awareness of the wider health sciences landscape.
We require an enthusiastic, strategic, team player with some experience of product development and commercialisation to work on a range of business-related activities The post holder will also play an important role in networking with national bodies such as the Office of Life Sciences (OLS) and Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), as well as with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) & other external stakeholders (from the NIHR, NHS England, Department of Health & Social Care, NICE). Experience of facilitating discussion with a variety of stakeholders will be advantageous. The post holder will play a key role in further establishing the Innovation Observatory’s brand, and refining and improving our value proposition to the life sciences sector.
This is a national role and the post sits in our exciting initiative, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Innovation Observatory (IO). Using next generation digital analytics, we bring together expertise to observe and report on health innovation for the UK and beyond, helping shape future health provision.
The Innovation Observatory is a £27M initiative, funded by the NIHR, based at Newcastle University. We bring together data scientists, text mining and evidence synthesis experts, and information specialists, to provide an essential service for the NHS and policymakers. Our outputs help them make informed decisions about how healthcare should be provided in the future.
Key Accountabilities
- Engage with the life sciences sector to understand the value proposition of the Innovation Observatory’s outputs
- Work with colleagues across the Innovation Observatory’s programmes to ensure that the needs of industry partners in the life sciences space are captured and fed into method and tool development
- Lead on scoping and innovation workshops with industry clients to help produce project proposals that provide clear and achievable deliverables
- Work with colleagues in the Business and Enterprise team within the University to ensure proposals are appropriately costed and contracted
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Industry Trade Bodies (ABHI, Bioindustry Association (BIA) Medilink, DIT, KTN’s); Health Networks (AHSNs, AHSC); Regional Networks (such as Bionow, One Nucleus, OBN); Stakeholders (NIHR, AAC/NHS E) and Funders (Venture Capital and other investors, Innovate UK, i4i, SBRi,AMRC, etc.,)
- Act as the project lead to ensure the efficient and successfully deliver of Industry Programme projects
- Line manage, support and mentor IO analysts as part of your project, programme and wider IO team
- Conduct and supervise desk-based research and analysis, drawing on a wide range of resources
- Manage a portfolio of projects, providing effective project and resource management against key metrics and milestones
- Ensure projects are delivered to time within the resource envelope
- Produce detailed outputs, reports and case studies that collate information from a variety of sources and present key findings
- Contribute to and help further develop our processes and methodologies
- Any other duties as specified commensurate with the grade.
The Person
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Experience of working with and building strong relationships with commercial clients
- Experience of leading workshops and meetings with clients to understand their needs and help produce project proposals with clear, achievable deliverables
- Proven experience of leading a multidisciplinary, creative team to deliver engaging, high-quality outputs
- Excellent planning, organisational and project management skills with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience of presenting to a wide variety of audiences, both in person and remotely
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Will have a strong commercial awareness
- Proven experience of a range of IT programmes, especially Microsoft Office 365
- Willingness to travel nationally and internationally, if required
Desirable
- Previous experience of working and delivering in a fast-paced environment
- Experience of conducting trend analysis and developing futures/horizon scanning forecasts
- Experience of using evidence synthesis methodologies
- Demonstrable experience of cross team working
- Experience of facilitating across stakeholders to achieve key outputs
- Ability to identify and articulate opportunities, taking complex ideas and translating them into a deliverable output
- Experience of building and maintaining networks
Attributes and Behaviour
Projecting confidence:
- Projects a positive attitude through personal confidence and enthusiasm to achieve organisational success. Inspires the trust and confidence of others
Planning and organising:
- Manages time and resources by prioritising and organising effectively. Monitors and controls the workflow of the team
Finds solutions:
- Draws on experience and creative thinking to generate a range of viable options and decide on the most appropriate course of action to problem-solve and achieve objectives
Seeks inspiration:
- Seeks out fresh ideas and emerging innovations from a wide range of sources to build knowledge and inspire others. Connects the dots and understands the implications for ageing and longevity
Teamworking:
- Works collaboratively with others, plays a positive role in teams and establishes and grows relationships across the organisation where different skills, expertise and opinions are valued
Qualifications (essential)
- Educated to postgrad standard in an innovation, design, social science or technology discipline and/or significant appropriate work experience
Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.
We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.
At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.
In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.
Requisition ID: 26040