Tech Foresight Client Engagement Executive

2 months ago


South Kensington, United Kingdom Imperial College London Full time

Bridging the science of tomorrow to the business of today

This role, Tech Foresight Client Engagement Executive, suits a versatile, future-thinker with a business mindset. Someone who enjoys making the future meaningful for corporate audiences. It involves skills in technology insight, content development for corporate audiences and delivery of that content in client engagements. Corporate clients like Imperial Business Partnersof the Imperial College London Enterprise Division. This is an all-rounder role that gets to dive into interesting topics. Strong communication skills are desirable.

**A premium employer**

Imperial College Londonis one of the top ten universities in the world. It has a greater proportion of world-leading research than any other UK university. Just recently Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bill Gates visited Imperial for the launch of a Cleantech initiative. Alongside this, Imperial has relationships to very large organisations in its Enterprise Division. Unlocking the edge between business and the future of science is an exciting place to work.

**A premium service**

Imperial Tech Foresight is a premier service to engage with Imperial’s corporate partners. Foresight is used to frame and explore future possibility backed by thousands of researchers researching and building tomorrow. This role is an opportunity to be part of that engagement. You will need business client facing skills and the ability to work with both internal business teams and with deep matter experts.

**Why should you apply?**

You want a challenging role, with an employer at the top of its industry, to do very interesting projects and in the process meet leading scientific researchers and bridge them to big names in the business world. Foresight work has permission to push speculative boundaries unlike traditional business consulting work. It is work where you never step in the same river twice.

**Duties and responsibilities**:
In this Tech Foresight Client Engagement Executive role there are three areas you will cover as part of the team:

- Technology Insights_ includes developing technological insights, delivering work packages, researching future change to contextualise technological, performing research e.g., interviews, organising research and documenting it.
- Content Development for industry audiences_ includes creating compelling and engaging communications, maintaining material in the asset library, content delivery activities, contributing to marketing communications, building relationships with the academic community, expanding our toolset and working with external service providers.
- Delivery of client engagements_ including engagement logistics and delivery, workshop facilitation, presenting on the future, engaging with executives, project management and supporting Imperial business development activities.

Making exciting things happen between Imperial and our clients requires logístical and operational work. This means, as examples, finding and building relationships with academics, contributing to event running tasks, writing and presenting. We are a small do-what-needs-to-be-done team.

**Essential requirements**:
To do this successfully you will have:

- Experience in developing and delivering content for corporate facing engagements.
- Evidence of multidisciplinary expertise and knowledge in understanding different technical disciplines.
- Experience of analysing a wide range of emerging technologies
- Excellent communications skills - highly developed verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write narratives about future impact of technologies and present these visions to a range of stakeholders.
- Excellent listening skills - with the ability to draw out in depth feedback from academics and IBP members, monitor their satisfaction, gathering detailed intelligence through dialogue.

Please note that job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties, which are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.

**Further information**:
This is a full-time permanent position.
- The College is currently trialling a Work Location Framework until early 2023. Hybrid working may be considered for this role and the role holder may be expected to work 60% or more of their time onsite, with 40% the minimum time spent onsite. The opportunity for hybrid working will be discussed at interview._

**Documents**:

- Tech Foresight Client Engagement Executive.pdf



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