Business & Entrepreneur Advisor

3 months ago

Warrington, United Kingdom Inventya Full time

Are you an experienced advisor who enjoys working with ambitious, high growth and innovation led entrepreneurs and businesses?

Have you worked at a senior management level and/or have experience of running your own business?

Are you based in around Wigan and understand the areas business support landscape and business demographics?

Do you have a passion for supporting businesses to develop long-term innovation commercialisation plans?

Would you like to join a growing team of specialists supporting North West businesses to grow and scale by commercialising their R&D?

If so, then we would like to hear from you.

**Our Company**

Inventya is a dynamic and rapidly growing innovation management consultancy offering new approaches to support the development and commercialisation of advanced science and technologies. The company works closely with highly ambitious and innovative SMEs across the UK through offering several key commercial services, including R&D Tax Credits, Consultancy (Market Research), Finance for Growth, Bid Writing and funded programmes - High Growth and Scaleup support. Our culture is at the heart of everything we do and remains vitally important to our growth strategy.

**About the Role**

Inventya is a delivery partner for multiple projects - where we provide fully funded bespoke support to innovative businesses to help them grow and scale. One such project is working with Wigan Council to deliver a programme of support to businesses and entrepreneurs to stimulate innovation, creativity, new businesses and growth particularly in the frontier sectors of clean growth, health innovation, advanced materials, digital, creative and media.

The Business & Entrepreneur Advisor will be of exceptional high calibre and capable of being a combination of coach, mentor, critical friend, and champion. It is mandatory to have experience of supporting and advising SMEs, senior management teams and innovators at various stages of the innovation and business life cycle. You will play a crucial role in providing strategic guidance to businesses, start-ups and individuals, helping them navigate challenges, driving business growth and commercialising innovations.

**Key Requirements**
- To facilitate a holistic analysis of businesses wanting to diversify and grow through innovation, assisting with idea generation, prioritising opportunities and identify potential courses of action
- Provide expert advice and guidance to innovation led entrepreneurs and startup founders on business planning, strategy development, and overall business growth
- Act as strategic coach and mentor to support the development and implementation of long-term innovation commercialisation plans
- Specifically provide a combination of advice, coaching and mentoring covering the following areas of support:

- Business planning
- Market analysis
- New product, service and process development
- Adopting new to firm technologies or processes
- Digitalisation of businesses
- To build relationships and facilitate introductions into the local, national and international innovation and business support ecosystems
- Account manage a portfolio of businesses and entrepreneurs, and deliver bespoke support packages by working with companies one-to-one

**Skills / Experience**
- A good understanding of the Wigan business support ecosystem and demographics
- Able to express ideas clearly, both verbally, face-to-face, by telephone, and in written communications and actively listen to others logically and accurately
- Business acumen and enough experience to credibly mentor Senior Managers in development of differentiated business models
- Experience of leading workshops in developing and pivoting business models in response to changing market perceptions
- Able to help the companies establish clear, impact driven measurable goals for its innovation strategy with alignment to the overall business growth strategy
- Actively participates as a full member of a team, effectively contributing and sharing information even when it is of no direct personal interest

**Key Measures**
- Compliance with all internal and external policies and legislative requirements
- Consistent positive client feedback
- Consistent achievement of agreed KPIs and targets
- Being a key part of the continued company ‘Your Success, Our Commitment’ ethos and culture
- Consistent evidence of behaviours identified and aligned with the company value
- Record and update data regularly into the appropriate CRM systems

**Benefits**
- 31 Days’ annual leave including statutory entitlement
- Statutory parental leave
- Flexible working
- Gym membership
- Healthcare Insurance
- On-site parking

**Salary**: £40,000.00-£48,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

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