The Academy of Medical Sciences – an independent, expert voice of biomedical and health research in the UK – is looking for an Industry Partnerships Lead to help turn the Academy’s convening power into practical commercial partnerships that accelerate translation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a defined area of industry partnership work within the Enterprise function, translating strategic priorities into well planned programmes, projects and workstreams.
- Manage day-to-day delivery, risks, dependencies and resources, ensuring outputs are delivered to agreed objectives, timescales and budgets.
- Working with a good degree of autonomy within agreed objectives and governance frameworks, you will organise and deliver a portfolio of partnership activity, manage risks and dependencies, and provide clear advice to the Head of Enterprise.
- Work with Fellows, researchers and industry partners to identify opportunities where partnership activity can help promising science progress towards development and patient benefit.
- Use evidence, sector knowledge and stakeholder insight to shape partnership propositions, test feasibility and develop appropriate routes for delivery.
- Build credible relationships with industry, venture and translational partners, understanding their priorities while protecting the Academy’s independence and charitable purpose.
- Develop and support practical mechanisms for collaboration, such as workshops, demonstration opportunities, partnership propositions or enterprise activity, working closely with delivery colleagues.
- Develop and manage partnerships that bring in external capability, insight and funding, including from industry, public funders, research charities and venture partners.
- Engage with judgement, pace and care, securing commitments and shared ownership while ensuring agreements are realistic, deliverable and proportionate.
- Provide clear reporting on progress, performance, resources and risk to the Head of Enterprise, escalating issues and dependencies appropriately.
Skills and Experience
- Strong understanding of the commercial environment for UK life sciences, including how academia, industry, funders, charities, the NHS and regulators interact.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to apply specialist knowledge to varied and complex challenges.
- Substantial experience of stakeholder engagement with the life sciences industry with the ability to apply that expertise to complex challenges.
- Experience of delivering programmes, projects or workstreams to agreed objectives, timescales and resources.
- Comfortable operating with a good degree of autonomy within the direction set, exercising judgement in complex situations and escalating the right things at the right time.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and pension.
- 26 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays.
- Option to buy or sell annual leave.
- Additional paid closure between Christmas and New Year.
- Hybrid and flexible working.
- Health, wellbeing and employee support programmes.
- Cycle-to-work scheme and everyday benefits.
- Structured learning and development.
- Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave.
- Enhanced occupational sick pay.
- A range of enhanced benefits become available once you’ve completed your probation period.
Salary: £69,080 per annum.
Contract and Hours: Permanent, Full Time, 37.5 hours per week.
Location: Hybrid/London W1B 1QH (50% office attendance).
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