Business Development Associate
About the Role
The role involves developing strong relationships with the University’s researchers, with industrial, commercial and social enterprise partners and with investors and sponsors to help take the University’s intellectual property into use in society. Supported by an experienced Business Development Manager, you will manage a portfolio of projects in development, with responsibility for driving the knowledge exchange and translation aspects of projects. Your activities will include assessment of often highly technical inventions arising from research, innovation development, business planning, IP and commercial deal negotiation, budgeting, marketing, translational funding support, investment and recruitment of spin-out teams. The post holder will be supported in the development of all the skills necessary to move to a more senior role.
About You
It is essential that you have a background in STEM subjects, preferably in Engineering, Physics and/or Manufacturing to enable us to cover the wide range of research at Warwick. We expect you to have postgraduate research and/or commercialisation experience and be scientifically conversant. With strong written and oral communication skills, the post holder will be comfortable with assessing technically complex subject matter. We are looking for candidates who possess scientific fluency and, ideally, entrepreneurial experience, marketing skills and a passion to help others to take research outcomes to society. Candidates looking to change careers into the public sector or interested to engage with Intellectual Property management and commercialisation are particularly welcome.
About Warwick Innovations
Warwick Innovations is the technology and knowledge transfer office for the University of Warwick. Under new leadership, we are experiencing exciting change and growth, and are looking for exceptional innovation managers to help us transform the innovation productivity from world-leading Warwick research. We are enabling research impact at pace and are building a powerful ecosystem to support our research community.
About the University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.
*QS World University Rankings 2024
** Research Excellence Framework 2021