Senior Innovation and Growth Specialist

5 months 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 a Senior 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 Northwest-based innovative businesses that are 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**:

- The Senior Innovation & Growth Specialist primary responsibility is to ensure that the Innovate UK EDGE service is delivered to produce the maximum impact in terms of assisting the client company to reach their full growth potential, and delivery of outputs and outcomes in terms of improved performance, new solutions to market, revenue growth, new jobs created, and jobs safeguarded.
- 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 manages a portfolio of clients and deliver bespoke support packages by working with companies one-to-one.
- 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.
- To act as a credible strategic coach and mentor to client businesses to identify them and support them in developing a growth strategy and their own long term innovative operations and help them develop new markets making use of Innovate UK and other support. The range of clients will be diverse from small start-up SMEs to larger mid-sized businesses to facilitate a holistic analysis of the business to gain an in-depth understanding of its current performance and potential for growth. To assist clients to prioritise issues and identify potential courses of action. Provide robust strategic advice to companies by establishing facts, weighing up pros and cons, examining consequences, and then deliver on the agreed action plans.
- 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, 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 a

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