Senior Portfolio Manager – Translation: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

The Senior Portfolio Manager (Translation) is an exciting post, which will work across BBSRC, playing a key role in championing, developing and delivering the BBSRC vision for investments and approaches to supporting bioscience translation to make a real, positive difference for the UK and beyond.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to influence strategy and investment on a national stage, within the UK’s largest public research funding organisation. As Senior Portfolio Manager (Translation), you will take on the role at the start of a new Spending Review settlement and be working in a challenging policy environment that the UK Government has set out through its ambitious targets to achieve total R&D expenditure to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. This ambition has been reinforced further by the drivers set out in the UK R&D Roadmap, along with broader narratives such as “levelling up” and increasing UK global competitiveness through harnessing our world-leading research.

As Senior Portfolio Manager (Translation) you will:

Be responsible for the development and delivery of BBSRC’s approach to supporting bioscience translation. You will have lead responsibility for BBSRC Follow-on Funding, Impact Acceleration Accounts as well as developing new opportunities, in particular those arising across UKRI and with other partners.

Lead the development and delivery of BBSRC’s strategy and approach for supporting the development of enterprise and entrepreneurial skills to enable effective bioscience translation, ensuring integration with other UKRI and with provision.

Work with BBSRC colleagues, partners and key stakeholders to understand opportunities for biosciences translation, building business cases as appropriate; supporting the Head of Translation to effectively manage the budget for these activities.

Build and maintain BBSRC’s wider network and partnerships with the research translation community, seeking areas of synergy and collaborative working

Contribute to the development of appropriate monitoring, assurance and evaluation approaches for BBSRC’s investments in research translation, in the context of wider UKRI commercialisation thinking, working with colleagues across BBSRC, UKRI and externally

Contribute to the leadership of the BBSRC KEC Unit and enabling appropriate integration of activities across the wider Capability and Innovation Domain