Innovation and Growth Specialist

5 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Business West Full time

We’re Business West and we exist to create long-term prosperity for our businesses and our region. We enable companies to start, grow, innovate and export. We build professional communities. We tackle challenging business issues on behalf of organisations. We lobby, influence and deliver tangible results. We nurture a more productive and inclusive landscape. We connect people, public bodies and private companies, fostering a richer trading environment. We drive business forward.

Sustainability for us means creating an inclusive environment where our businesses can thrive both now and in the years ahead. In 2021, we became a Certified B Corp. In other words, we meet exacting standards of verified social and environmental performance, balancing profit and purpose. It makes us uniquely placed to advise the businesses of the future, as well as lending credibility to our message that business can be a force for good.

Innovate UK Business Growth is looking to recruit an experienced business specialist to work with some of the UK’s most innovative companies to help them grow, internationalise and commercially exploit their innovation.

Based in South West England, the specialist will act as adviser and mentor to ambitious businesses, work closely with Innovate UK grant beneficiaries and organisations from the wider innovation community.

In particular, we are looking for specialists who have a background in one or more of the following disciplines: business management, sales, marketing, innovation management, finance, IP, design, New Product Introduction, EDI or sustainability.

**The Benefits**:

- Salary of £42,000 to £45,410 per annum, depending on experience
- 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays (rising to 28 days after three years’ service)
- BHSF health cash plan scheme
- Pension
- Life cover (x4 salary)
- Your birthday off
- Two volunteer days each year
- Subscription to Headspace

This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented business mentor professional to join our excellent organisation and help develop the next generation of Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).

We can offer you a highly engaging role, where you will have the chance to use your expertise, passion and experience across some of the most exciting sustainable, growth-oriented businesses.

So, if you have the mentorship skills to realise the potential of SMEs and are eager to share expert tips, guidance and knowledge, we want to hear from you

**The Role**

As an Innovation and Growth Specialist, you will support and account manage some of the most innovative SMEs in the UK, making a significant contribution to their growth.

Providing tailored analysis and support, you will advise SMEs at critical points of the business lifecycle to help them achieve scale by identifying and reducing barriers to growth.

Using a variety of Innovate UK funded support services within our Innovate UK Business Growth portfolio, you will provide businesses with an integrated support package.

**About You**

To be considered as an Innovation and Growth Specialist, you will need:

- Experience of supporting and advising SMEs and their Senior Management Teams at various stages of the business life cycle
- Good knowledge and experience of working with companies in the technology sector- The ability to identify and recruit SMEs to relevant services
- The ability to act as a coach, mentor, critical friend and champion to clients

Business West is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.



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