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Lead Partnering & Innovation Adviser
| Posting date: | 24 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £45,240 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2024 |
| Location: | Hatfield, Hertfordshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Exemplas |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
About the role
You will lead on the delivery of the Exemplas Partnering & Innovation Advisers team, supporting the successful delivery of the Innovate UK Business Growth EEN & Unlocking Potential services, through identification and actioning of European partnering opportunities for SMEs and maximising growth potential for the grant awardees. Your role as Lead Partnering & Innovation Adviser will be central to our ambition to be a recognised Partner of Choice within the national consortium of partners delivering Innovate UK Business Growth Support.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Working as a ‘player manager’ to lead and manage a team of Partnering and Innovation Advisers & Specialists, covering all aspects of people management activities
• Providing robust advice and support to a portfolio of innovative start up clients, via a combination of hands-on support, advice, coaching and mentoring, including business planning, international markets access, access to funding and finance, & access to expert/specialist resources
• Working with high growth clients and their Innovate UK Business Growth Innovation & Growth Specialists to provide tailored support to encourage international collaboration and partnering that will help businesses enter new markets.
• With the guidance of the Innovate UK Business Growth Team, working with the Exemplas EEN Thematic and Sector representatives to identify opportunities for partnering, including organising brokerage events
• Leading the Partnering & Innovation team in providing guidance to ensure international partnering indicators are on track and reported accurately.
About you
We are looking for someone with strong people management skills who has demonstrable business experience within a growth business environment and experience of international partnering activities. In addition, you will have:
• Experience of and working knowledge of HR processes for managing people and teams
• People management skills, in particular motivating and encouraging others, coaching and mentoring, adaptable communication style, managing conflict, giving feedback, etc)
• Business experience (e.g. business owner, business manager, operations/innovation manager, business/product development manager) within a growth business environment
• Understanding of P&L and balance sheets, concepts such as ROI, breakeven, cash-flow and working capital
• Experience of / or been directly involved in commercialisation of new product or service development
• Experience of international collaboration and partnering in global markets
• Capable of being a combination of coach, mentor, critical friend and champion to start up clients
• Able to understand and communicate the key business issues affecting profitability and growth, along with the factors leading to success in commercialising innovative ideas
• Able to gain and hold the respect of business owners and senior staff in innovative growing businesses
• Can work independently as well as part of a team, and use own initiative/self-motivation
• Active listening skills, with non-confrontational challenging of business assessment.
What we offer
This is a full time, permanent position with an expectation of some UK and occasional European travel. While we operate in a remote first environment, you do need to live within easy commutable distance from our head office in Hatfield, or elsewhere as required, where we meet as a team and to collaborate with others across the business.
• The starting salary for this role is £45,240pa
• Car Allowance
• Broadband allowance
• Generous, up to 10.5% non-contributory pension scheme
• Ill-health income protection
• Life assurance (Death in Service)
• 26 days holiday (rising to 28 after 2 years’ service, pro rata for part time)
• Flexible and supportive working culture including access to mental health first aiders
• Wellbeing services for employees including access to discounts, employee assistance programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Doctorline and more
• Modern, open space and technology enabled working environment
• Flexible benefits including holiday-buy scheme, eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccination, Cyclescheme.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and value diversity in our workforce. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
We fully embrace flexible working, so please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your initial phone interview.
About us
We are one of the UK’s foremost business support organisations and for over 25 years, we have provided business advisory services to more than 500,000 small to medium sized businesses on behalf of Government and Private sector organisations. As part of our expert team, you can expect to be empowered to be the best you can and share our company values of Openness (I am keen and willing to engage), Inspiration (I want to be the best that I can be), Conviction (We win, or lose, together) and Accountability (I will take responsibility and ownership). As a business we recognise that giving a superior service to our clients depends on making the most of our people and we aim to give our teams challenging opportunities, recognition for achievement, job enrichment and the maximum flexibility we can.
The fine print
• Please note we are not a Home Office visa sponsorship licence holder and therefore you must be currently eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this role.
• Please read our recruitment privacy notice available on Exemplas website for information about how we process your personal data.
You will lead on the delivery of the Exemplas Partnering & Innovation Advisers team, supporting the successful delivery of the Innovate UK Business Growth EEN & Unlocking Potential services, through identification and actioning of European partnering opportunities for SMEs and maximising growth potential for the grant awardees. Your role as Lead Partnering & Innovation Adviser will be central to our ambition to be a recognised Partner of Choice within the national consortium of partners delivering Innovate UK Business Growth Support.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Working as a ‘player manager’ to lead and manage a team of Partnering and Innovation Advisers & Specialists, covering all aspects of people management activities
• Providing robust advice and support to a portfolio of innovative start up clients, via a combination of hands-on support, advice, coaching and mentoring, including business planning, international markets access, access to funding and finance, & access to expert/specialist resources
• Working with high growth clients and their Innovate UK Business Growth Innovation & Growth Specialists to provide tailored support to encourage international collaboration and partnering that will help businesses enter new markets.
• With the guidance of the Innovate UK Business Growth Team, working with the Exemplas EEN Thematic and Sector representatives to identify opportunities for partnering, including organising brokerage events
• Leading the Partnering & Innovation team in providing guidance to ensure international partnering indicators are on track and reported accurately.
About you
We are looking for someone with strong people management skills who has demonstrable business experience within a growth business environment and experience of international partnering activities. In addition, you will have:
• Experience of and working knowledge of HR processes for managing people and teams
• People management skills, in particular motivating and encouraging others, coaching and mentoring, adaptable communication style, managing conflict, giving feedback, etc)
• Business experience (e.g. business owner, business manager, operations/innovation manager, business/product development manager) within a growth business environment
• Understanding of P&L and balance sheets, concepts such as ROI, breakeven, cash-flow and working capital
• Experience of / or been directly involved in commercialisation of new product or service development
• Experience of international collaboration and partnering in global markets
• Capable of being a combination of coach, mentor, critical friend and champion to start up clients
• Able to understand and communicate the key business issues affecting profitability and growth, along with the factors leading to success in commercialising innovative ideas
• Able to gain and hold the respect of business owners and senior staff in innovative growing businesses
• Can work independently as well as part of a team, and use own initiative/self-motivation
• Active listening skills, with non-confrontational challenging of business assessment.
What we offer
This is a full time, permanent position with an expectation of some UK and occasional European travel. While we operate in a remote first environment, you do need to live within easy commutable distance from our head office in Hatfield, or elsewhere as required, where we meet as a team and to collaborate with others across the business.
• The starting salary for this role is £45,240pa
• Car Allowance
• Broadband allowance
• Generous, up to 10.5% non-contributory pension scheme
• Ill-health income protection
• Life assurance (Death in Service)
• 26 days holiday (rising to 28 after 2 years’ service, pro rata for part time)
• Flexible and supportive working culture including access to mental health first aiders
• Wellbeing services for employees including access to discounts, employee assistance programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Doctorline and more
• Modern, open space and technology enabled working environment
• Flexible benefits including holiday-buy scheme, eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccination, Cyclescheme.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and value diversity in our workforce. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
We fully embrace flexible working, so please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your initial phone interview.
About us
We are one of the UK’s foremost business support organisations and for over 25 years, we have provided business advisory services to more than 500,000 small to medium sized businesses on behalf of Government and Private sector organisations. As part of our expert team, you can expect to be empowered to be the best you can and share our company values of Openness (I am keen and willing to engage), Inspiration (I want to be the best that I can be), Conviction (We win, or lose, together) and Accountability (I will take responsibility and ownership). As a business we recognise that giving a superior service to our clients depends on making the most of our people and we aim to give our teams challenging opportunities, recognition for achievement, job enrichment and the maximum flexibility we can.
The fine print
• Please note we are not a Home Office visa sponsorship licence holder and therefore you must be currently eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this role.
• Please read our recruitment privacy notice available on Exemplas website for information about how we process your personal data.