Innovation and Growth

3 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

**The Growth Company’s (GC)** Innovate UK Business Growth team have an exciting new opportunity for an Ecosystem Innovation and Growth Specialist to deliver in-depth specialist business and innovation growth advice to a portfolio of ambitious business owners and senior managers of primarily North West-based innovative businesses, with a focus on investment. The businesses supported will be aiming to achieve growth in the UK and internationally, particularly, but not exclusively through new product/service development.

**Innovate UK Business Growth **is a key part of the UK innovation agency’s deep investment in the pioneering businesses that drive economic growth. It is a publicly funded service available to all high potential small to medium sized innovation-driven companies, including Innovate UK grant winners.

Empowering innovative businesses to grow and achieve their industry
- and society-transforming ambitions. Innovators are motivated to improve the ways we live and work. We support those building scalable businesses to achieve their goals, in every sector and from seed to scale stage.

We work closely with leadership teams to create the conditions for each business to succeed and bring the benefits of their innovation to national and international audiences; Since 2015 we have been empowering clients to grow and scale their businesses through actionable advice, access to vital resources and opportunities to enhance their abilities.

Your journey will usually start with our national enquiry gateway, which receives enquiries from innovative businesses, connecting them to their local innovation and growth specialist if appropriate. Our national enquiry team can also offer additional support in areas such as market research/intelligence insights, providing you with key information about current regulation and product/service conformity in the UK, EU or worldwide.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work within the investment ecosystem in order to Identify innovative businesses with the best growth potential. Handle leads and enquiries to ascertain suitability for Innovation & Growth support and services. Create leads, convert, and deliver services and advice to clients to meet your individual and the team’s targets. Making appropriate and required records on the relevant systems, reports, and documentation to comply with Innovate UK requirements.
- Account manage a portfolio of clients and deliver bespoke support packages by working with companies one-to-one.
- Provide in depth one to one support with businesses in order to develop and deliver their immediate and long term funding and finance goals.
- Participate and support the Innovate UK Business Growth teams Investment readiness Specialist Group. The group is focussed on providing a UK wide support network, the will provide investment support to Innovative businesses throughout the UK.
- To act as strategic coach and mentor to clients to support them in developing their own long-term innovation commercialisation plans. Specifically provide a combination of advice, coaching and mentoring, that will help our companies manage the issues and risks associated with their business, considering several external factors. This will include but not be limited to:

- Able to understand and communicate the key business issues affecting the profitability and growth of an enterprise, along with the factors leading to success in commercialising innovative ideas. Has sufficient knowledge of the strategic choices, practical process, and current issues (such as marketing, access to finance, intellectual property, business development, innovation support etc.) to be credible with clients.
- Ensure client enquiries and partner referrals are correctly recorded on relevant CRMs and associated service specific data capturing systems, updating progress against agreed actions as plans progress and ensure all administration is completed in timely manner against deadlines and is checked for accuracy.
- Work with the relevant businesses closely to monitor any outputs including new jobs created/safeguarded, any revenue increase, new solutions, internal and external improvement to the clients’ performance and capabilities and other service specific outputs and outcomes that result from activities undertaken.
- Undertake detailed diagnostics on a business or a detailed diagnostic on a particular functional or business area using various tools and methods to capture baseline data from clients and to Identify needs, which should be addressed by developing growth action plans. This will involve the analysis and interpretation of business and market data/intelligence to provide recommendations to senior management teams, boards, and shareholders.
- Deliver bespoke innovation and growth support directly to enable them to fully meet their growth potential which typically has needed a more complex intervention; this will also include a multi-disciplinary approach to support provision

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