Head of Partnerships for Research and Innovation

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree in a biomedical research, clinical or management discipline
• Master's qualification or equivalent experience in Research/ Innovation/ Management

Desirable criteria

• PhD in relevant discipline

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidenced experience of delivering partnership activity with quantifiable outputs (financial, organisational, or patient benefit)
• Delivery of successful collaborative funding bids or contracts
• Experience of working in either an NHS, Academic or Commercial or technology transfer/ commercialisation department
• Experience of staff and budgetary management
• Experience of managing complex large-scale projects
• Management of a discrete business unit
• Experience working in a commercial environment
• Relationship management at an Executive/Board level.

Desirable criteria

• Developing a stakeholder network at executive level resulting in commercial partnerships

Personal attributes

Essential criteria

• Ability to achieve objectives consistently
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Negotiating and influencing skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Highly developed networking and presentation skills
• Articulate
• Professional manner and appearance
• Flexible and highly motivated
• Organised with excellent time management
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to think laterally
• Excellent team worker
• Able to work in situations of ambiguity

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Documents to download

• Head of Partnerships_R&I_JD (PDF, 208.6KB)
• Head of Partnerships_R&I_PS (PDF, 168.6KB)
• Head of Partnerships_R&I_functional reqs (PDF, 920.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)