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Co-Head of Science - Materials & Mechanical Metrology
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Ionawr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £69,654 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Chwefror 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Teddington, South West London |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | National Physical Laboratory |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 2260 |
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About the Role
As a member of the Science & Engineering leadership team, provide strategic & commercial leadership and best practice across an area of science or engineering, to maximise the strategic and commercial impact of the Department science portfolio. Ensure alignment with NPL strategy, to exploit the business opportunities generated by science capabilities, and embed an enduring entrepreneurial culture. Manage stakeholder relationships and bolster the department’s reputation across the relevant sectors.
Key responsibilities
• Work alongside the departmental Head of Science, supporting through provision of stakeholder engagement, recognising and ensuring commercial impact of science delivered and collaborating in horizon-scanning, strategic foresight and development.
• Support and challenge the Science Area Leaders within their associated area of strategic importance on the integrity, quality and balance of the work in their science area, particularly in engaging with key stakeholders and building impactful relationships for the realisation of commercial impact, building commercial awareness and skills, ensuring new capabilities or science areas are strategically aligned, and fostering internal and external collaboration.
• Develop detailed knowledge and commercial strategies for the Materials & Mechanical Metrology technical areas consistent with NPL strategy and external drivers. Work collaboratively across groups and with partnerships leaders to inform future strategy and ensure commercial opportunities are maximised.
• Provide leadership to ensure NPL’s mission, strategy and plans are articulated and understood internally and externally for your areas of the business, that employees and partners are excited by, engaged with and focussed on its successful exploitation to maximise commercial impact and growth.
• Manage the commercial performance and potential of your department, building highly motivated, customer-focused and performing teams.
• Develop, promote and role-model an entrepreneurial culture within the Department to maximise the commercial impact of the science portfolio and generate income through strategic engagement with existing and potential customers, recognised within NPL and by external stakeholders.
• In collaboration, develop and communicate on-going vision, strategy, and roadmaps to commercially exploit the Department science/engineering area capability, with relevant input from colleagues across NPL.
• Ensure compliance with appropriate governance including opportunity progression, quality, health, safety, security and environmental legislation minimising risk to the business and enhancing NPL’s reputation.
• Drive collaboration, both internally and externally to develop partnership opportunities to extend the capability of the business.
• Build and maintain customer and stakeholder relationships that will support NPL’s ability to deliver its mission, its reputation and remain sustainable, to develop business based on NPL capabilities.
Regular travel within the UK will be required as part of this role. International travel may occasionally be required.
About You
Skills and experience that you can bring to the role:
Degree in relevant subject area (Physics, Engineering, MBA), or equivalent experience.
Ability to developing relationships with industry, academia and government organisations.
Creation and management of CRM database
Facilitating and building impactful collaborations in a technical area
Knowledge of a wide range of technologies and sectors
Leadership, influencing and people management skills, including mentoring and supporting junior staff
Bid writing and management
Excellent analytical and technical problem solving ability
Exceptional written and oral presentation skills
Being Proactive and able to take initiative whilst working independently or as part of a team
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.
Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.
As a member of the Science & Engineering leadership team, provide strategic & commercial leadership and best practice across an area of science or engineering, to maximise the strategic and commercial impact of the Department science portfolio. Ensure alignment with NPL strategy, to exploit the business opportunities generated by science capabilities, and embed an enduring entrepreneurial culture. Manage stakeholder relationships and bolster the department’s reputation across the relevant sectors.
Key responsibilities
• Work alongside the departmental Head of Science, supporting through provision of stakeholder engagement, recognising and ensuring commercial impact of science delivered and collaborating in horizon-scanning, strategic foresight and development.
• Support and challenge the Science Area Leaders within their associated area of strategic importance on the integrity, quality and balance of the work in their science area, particularly in engaging with key stakeholders and building impactful relationships for the realisation of commercial impact, building commercial awareness and skills, ensuring new capabilities or science areas are strategically aligned, and fostering internal and external collaboration.
• Develop detailed knowledge and commercial strategies for the Materials & Mechanical Metrology technical areas consistent with NPL strategy and external drivers. Work collaboratively across groups and with partnerships leaders to inform future strategy and ensure commercial opportunities are maximised.
• Provide leadership to ensure NPL’s mission, strategy and plans are articulated and understood internally and externally for your areas of the business, that employees and partners are excited by, engaged with and focussed on its successful exploitation to maximise commercial impact and growth.
• Manage the commercial performance and potential of your department, building highly motivated, customer-focused and performing teams.
• Develop, promote and role-model an entrepreneurial culture within the Department to maximise the commercial impact of the science portfolio and generate income through strategic engagement with existing and potential customers, recognised within NPL and by external stakeholders.
• In collaboration, develop and communicate on-going vision, strategy, and roadmaps to commercially exploit the Department science/engineering area capability, with relevant input from colleagues across NPL.
• Ensure compliance with appropriate governance including opportunity progression, quality, health, safety, security and environmental legislation minimising risk to the business and enhancing NPL’s reputation.
• Drive collaboration, both internally and externally to develop partnership opportunities to extend the capability of the business.
• Build and maintain customer and stakeholder relationships that will support NPL’s ability to deliver its mission, its reputation and remain sustainable, to develop business based on NPL capabilities.
Regular travel within the UK will be required as part of this role. International travel may occasionally be required.
About You
Skills and experience that you can bring to the role:
Degree in relevant subject area (Physics, Engineering, MBA), or equivalent experience.
Ability to developing relationships with industry, academia and government organisations.
Creation and management of CRM database
Facilitating and building impactful collaborations in a technical area
Knowledge of a wide range of technologies and sectors
Leadership, influencing and people management skills, including mentoring and supporting junior staff
Bid writing and management
Excellent analytical and technical problem solving ability
Exceptional written and oral presentation skills
Being Proactive and able to take initiative whilst working independently or as part of a team
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.
Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.
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