Living Laboratory Partnership Manager
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Job purpose
The Living Laboratory Partnership Manager will play a pivotal role in fostering and managing strategic relationships with partners, including industry, academics and NHS. This role will be a key leadership role contributing to the development and delivery of the Living Laboratory’s ambitions to sustainability plans, facilitating strategic industry and innovation partnership engagement and developing a pipeline of new opportunities for Living Laboratory assets.
Main duties & responsibilities
- Identify, engage, and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders across industry, academia, and the NHS to foster collaboration and commercial opportunities to support and deliver the ambitions of the Living Laboratory.
- Play a key role to provide leadership and advise to Living Laboratory management, academics, and researchers in relation to managing and developing new and existing industry partnerships, identifying opportunities to broaden or deepen engagement, for mutual benefit, and monitoring the impact for industry and the Living Laboratory.
- To plan, develop and grow a pipeline of industrial collaborations working in partnership with key researchers and identifying opportunities for targeting UKRI, public, innovation or industrial funding.
- Explore new opportunities and build meaningful partnerships, to include emerging sectors, technologies, and research areas that contribute to Living Laboratory’s ambitions and objectives.
- To proactively develop and lead a program of meetings with external organisations to communicate progress of Living Laboratory research and business developments.
- Generate and communicate industry sector intelligence for the Living Laboratory in support of focus areas to identify new partnership opportunities for the Living Laboratory.
- Develop business cases and proposals for partnership initiatives to ensure financial sustainability and resource allocation.
- Provide leadership on the coordination and delivery of partnership projects, ensuring timelines, deliverables and outcomes are met within agreed budgets
- To lead, influence and collaborate with colleagues to develop and enhance marketing activities promoting the Living Laboratory’s capabilities, achievements and successes to industry, potential funders and research stakeholders.
- Provide regular insight, high level analysis and reporting to senior management outlining progress against strategy and to assist in strategic decision-making.
- Work with the legal and research governance teams to ensure that appropriate legal agreements that adhere to regulatory, ethical and legal requirements are put in place for new partnerships.
Knowledge and qualifications
Essential
- Scottish Credit Qualification Framework level 9, 10, 11. Higher Degree in a relevant discipline or substantial vocational and relevant experience demonstrating management skills and knowledge in an appropriate professional / specialist area.
- Ability to demonstrate the competencies required to undertake the duties associated with this level of post having acquired the necessary professional knowledge and management skills in a similar or number of different specialist roles.
- Understanding of healthcare innovation, research environments and innovation processes
- Familiarity with the regulatory, ethical and legal frameworks governing healthcare innovation
- Knowledge and experience of working with healthcare/life sciences companies and an understanding of their business drivers.
Desirable
- Knowledge of intellectual property, legal matters and risks relevant to university-industry collaborations.
- Understanding of academic industrial partnerships.
- Awareness of mechanisms to support industrial-academic collaboration, including the research and innovation funding landscape, and experience converting proposals into funded programmes or projects.
- Understanding of the Living Laboratory, including its objectives to drive healthcare impact.
Skills
Essential
- Significant proven ability to develop and maintain relations with existing partners / stakeholders at a senior level and to identify and target new collaborators/ partners.
- Tact and diplomacy when dealing with sensitive and confidential information, and ability to work well under pressure.
- Proven ability and interest to learn about and the potential for new technologies, products, and services in an academic or industrial setting.
- Dynamic and creative ability to spot, create and seize development opportunities and realise these through to workable solutions.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to plan long term strategic priorities whilst managing short term operational pressures.
- Excellent organisational skills, project management and reporting ability.
- Proven ability to negotiate contracts to a successful solution.
- Computer literacy, including understanding and competency in desktop applications including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook as well as database software and the Internet.
- Capable of understanding and analysing research proposals and / or business plans and being able to offer constructive comments and feedback.
Desirable
- Proven ability to create and deliver on marketing plans for service / product sales.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of developing strong strategic relationships with external business partners and converting these into value adding deliverables (project, product, service, other)
- Proven track record of influencing and negotiating at senior levels in the public and/or private sector towards the successful delivery of organisational objectives.
- Significant experience of developing value propositions which balance the needs and requirements of both internal management and stakeholders, and external partners and stakeholders.
- Experience of working in a complex technical or innovative environment.
- Experience of designing and executing successful negotiations which result in contract signing.
- Substantial experience of developing and running partnership projects, preferably in a business-to-university, or university to business context.
Desirable
- Experience of leading teams containing senior academics and industrialists and driving strategy in a technology environment.
World-Changing Campus
We have delivered one of the most significant expansions of a UK university city campus for over a century.
Over the last decade, the University of Glasgow has invested in its estate to expand its world-class campus and facilities.
An area covering 14 acres of land next to our magnificent Gilmorehill campus has been redeveloped to build a mix of modern research, teaching and public spaces.
Our new buildings will mean the University remains a centre for world-changing research, as well as a vibrant community hub and centre for public engagement.
The development will transform our teaching, learning and research spaces. It will allow us to bring together the best minds of today and tomorrow within world-class interdisciplinary research spaces that offer flexibility and stimulate collaboration, and modern study spaces that will combine study and social learning space with technology enabled teaching.
- The Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC) is changing the way research is conducted at Glasgow. The ARC is the creative and collaborative heart of research at the University of Glasgow, bridging the boundaries between research, cross-subject collaboration and true societal impact . The ARC brings more than 500 world-leading researchers from a range of disciplines together in a building specifically designed to break down organisational structure and facilitate collaboration and interdisciplinary work.
- The James McCune Smith Learning Hub is an inspirational and diverse learning space. The flagship building was the first to be completed as part of our campus development, and provides a creative environment, combining flexible study and social learning space with multi-styled and technology-enabled teaching. It can accommodate more than 2,500 students, and includes a lecture theatre with capacity for 500 students. State-of-the-art teaching facilities, with flexible study spaces and interactive teaching for students, help to create a more immersive learning experience.
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Music
The city hosts an average of 130 music events a week catering for every taste; from rock to rap, and classical to country. Glasgow also has a world class club scene playing host to some of the world’s top DJs.
Shopping
Outside of London’s West End, Glasgow is frequently voted the best place for shopping in the UK. A must-visit destination for any shop-a-holic, it houses high street chains, international designers, and independent retailers. The West End, home to the University of Glasgow, is bustling with vintage fashion, vinyl stores, and second-hand bookshops.
Arts and Culture
Glasgow’s arts scene has gone from strength to strength, and is the base for five internationally renowned performing arts companies including the National Theatre of Scotland and Scottish Ballet. The city has several world-class museums, which are free to the public, and the city’s architecture is a work of art in itself.
Food and drink
You can be in Glasgow and taste the world with its many diverse restaurants, cafes, and bars. And if you’ve yet to sample the delights of haggis and whisky, Glasgow is the place to be.
The City and Beyond
Glasgow has all the opportunities and excitement of a big city but its compact size means you can quickly travel from one vibrant district to the next. You could be relaxing in one of its many parks, before shopping in the quirky West End, and then dancing until the wee small hours in the Merchant City.
And when you fancy getting out of the city you can reach the stunning Loch Lomond in just 30 minutes, climb one of our many breath-taking Munros, play golf at one of Scotland’s many world-class courses, visit one of our ancient castles, or go further North and search for Nessie! Scotland has also just been named the world’s most beautiful country by Rough Guides.
Relocating to Glasgow
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WORLD CHANGING GLASGOW 2025
Our outstanding disciplinary breadth and expertise has enabled us to make world-changing advances in fields as diverse as medicine, physics, linguistics, public policy and global development.
The key to our success is our talented staff and students pushing back at the boundaries of knowledge and understanding together.
Our World Changers Together strategy recognises the fundamental importance of a culture of open cooperation: not just as colleagues and mentors or students and teachers, but as a community of discovery that reaches beyond its walls and draws inspiration and strength from its connections and partnerships worldwide: excellence that's part of something bigger. The strategy is articulated across three themes:
COMMUNITY
- People centred, globally engaged
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- Collaboratively minded, digitally enhanced
CHALLENGES
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How to apply
Full details of the role and how to apply can be found by visiting our website:
The closing date for applications is Monday 2nd December 2024.
Terms & Conditions
Salary will be Grade 8, £49,250 - £56,921 per annum.
This post is full time, and has funding until 30 September 2025 in the first instance.
For more information about the infrastructure and the scope of the job or for informal enquiries, please contact Ruth McLaughlin, Ruth.McLaughlin@glasgow.ac.uk
The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules.
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As part of Team UofG you will be a member of a world changing, inclusive community, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, pension - pensions handbook https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/, benefits and discount packages.
A flexible approach to working.
A commitment to support your health and wellbeing, including a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new staff joining the University https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/staff/healthwellbeing/.
We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.
We endorse the principles of Athena Swan https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan/ and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.
We are investing in our organisation, and we will invest in you too. Please visit our website https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ for more information.
It is the University of Glasgow’s mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment. We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.
Our values
The future holds innumerable challenges for our sector, our society, and our world. We will have to adapt and change what we do and what we offer if we are to navigate these successfully. Our strategy and approach may evolve as the landscape changes, but our values will remain constant: a fixed point of certainty in uncertain times.
We have identified our values in consultation and partnership with our staff and student community. Living and upholding these values will ensure that we remain true to the spirit of our community and ourselves:
Ambition and Excellence
- We strive for excellence through our work
- We defend academic freedom globally
- We recognise and celebrate shared success
- We have an unrelenting focus on development
Curiosity and Discovery
- We innovate and solve problems together
- We lead by influence and example
- We engage with lifelong learning and personal development
- We learn from our mistakes
Integrity and Truth
- We uphold honesty, integrity and fairness
- We share our work widely and generously
- We do the right thing, not the easy thing - or we don’t do it
- We take responsibility
An Inclusive Community
- We are one Glasgow team, and we care for and respect one another
- We advocate for diversity and believe in variety as a vital part of a healthy university
- We champion education as an engine for social progress
- We practise and advance sustainability