Business Development Manager: Manchester Metropolitan University

This is an exciting time to join Manchester Met. The past five years have seen significant achievements in driving high-quality, impactful Research and Knowledge Exchange. In the Business and Partnerships Development team, our focus is on building commercial income streams such as contract research.

Role

The role requires an experienced B2B Business Development Manager, with experience working within a Higher Education setting, to help deliver an ambitious strategy to increase knowledge exchange activities with external partners in the public, private and third sector. You will be joining an established, professional and collaborative team of BDMs, and you will:

• Focus on increasing and diversifying income streams from contract research, consultancy, KTPs, growth of Intellectual Property income and other entrepreneurial activities.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with key partners to help identify additional opportunities and build long-lasting partnerships.
• Provide expert advice to academics, and guide them through university processes for ensuring that any risks or issues associated with submitting a KE proposal have been managed. You will provide liaison between the academic team and the external partner during proposal development and the contract agreement stage, working closely with our specialist RKE Contracts team.
• Be a natural team-player, with a collaborative approach to your work; have strong commercial acumen and good numeracy skills.
• Have an understanding of funders of innovation and enterprise such as Innovate UK.

Manchester Met research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and innovative. Our thematic areas of Knowledge Exchange expertise include Industry 4.0; the Circular Economy and Sustainability; Sport and Health; and Creative, Digital & Technology. More information on our 14 University Centres of Research and Knowledge Exchange can be found here. You will join the rest of the team in providing support to a broad range of research specialisms. While the team is structured to work across different academic disciplines as required, it's likely that the initial focus for this role will include areas such as advanced computational science, and applied social sciences.

The role is fixed term to 31st August 2024. While we cannot provide any certainty beyond that date, our objective is to find resources to make the role permanent.

Please apply through our online portal and include a covering letter with your application.

If you would like an informal talk about the role, contact Clare O'Neill via clare.oneill@mmu.ac.uk.