Innovation Officer (Portfolio)

Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer, and nearly one million people are living with it today. Behind every number is a person, a family, and a need for better support, care and hope. At Alzheimer’s Society, innovation is how we turn ideas into real world change. We identify, support and invest in solutions that improve diagnosis, care, access to treatment and help prevent crisis. Our Innovation Programme has supported more than 60 innovations, reaching over 1.5 million people and helping partners secure millions in further funding.

What you’ll do:

• Manage relationships with our innovation portfolio partners, monitor progress, impact and reach, seek opportunities for wider implementation and scale of innovations, and track the return on investment of innovations within the portfolio.
• Help us understand the impact of our portfolio by turning project data into clear, useful insight through dashboards and analysis.
• Assist with operational delivery, including due diligence, contracting, invoicing, and share the work of our team and innovators through events, communications and engagement.
• Support learning and evaluation to understand what works and why, and drive space for learning, not just delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage portfolio partner relationships through regular engagement, meetings and stakeholder support.
• Develop and maintain impact metrics and dashboards to track portfolio performance, returns and impact.
• Monitor financial performance including sales, returns, and quarterly partner reporting.
• Review and analyse partner reports to identify progress, risks and key themes across the portfolio.
• Support income-generation opportunities by identifying routes for testing, implementation and scaling.
• Monitor compliance requirements including contractual obligations and brand-licensing agreements.
• Lead evaluation activity by designing, commissioning and monitoring evaluations with partners.
• Prepare and coordinate partner representation and involvement in meetings and events.
• Support operational processes such as invoicing, due diligence, contracting and onboarding of new partners.
• Collaborate across teams and contribute to continuous improvement of portfolio management and reporting.

About you:

You care about work that makes a difference. You are curious, open to learning and comfortable working across information, people and processes. You might come from innovation, partnerships, health, charity or the public sector, or somewhere completely different. We do not expect you to know everything on day one. We care more about how you think and how you work with others. If you meet some of the criteria but not all, we would still really like to hear from you.

Key skills include:

• Interest in understanding what is working and what is not, and why.
• Enjoyment of working with others to keep things moving.
• Ability to manage multiple pieces of work and prioritize what matters most.
• Clear communication, even when information is complex or changing.
• Practical problem-solving when things are not straightforward.

Benefits:

We are proud to support employees with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer’s Society.

Equality, diversity, inclusion & belonging:

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We encourage individuals with a disability, impairment, health condition or who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background to apply, as these groups are under-represented in our workforce.

Interviews are provisionally scheduled for 14 July via MS Teams.