Programme Lead, Innovations

7 months ago

Twickenham, United Kingdom LGC Group Full time

**Company Description**
Are you interested in the translation of health and social care innovations? Are you excited by working in a fast-paced dynamic team environment? Would you like to engage with multiple stakeholders across industry, academia and the NHS? The Innovations team within the LGC Grant Management Group is looking for a Programme Lead who is passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship and thrives in a busy environment.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Its mission is to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. The NIHR funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health, well-being and promotes economic growth. We are expanding our team to support the shaping of NIHR’s offer to industry.

Reporting to the Assistant Director and Head of Innovation and Enterprises, you will play a key role in the Innovations team, shaping a suite of exciting new activities, including the development of an entrepreneurship training and mentorship programme, as well as funding calls to expand the NIHR’s offer to industry and accelerate the translation of research to generate patient benefit.

You will be an experienced manager leading a team of both Senior & Programme Managers to ensure the day-to-day delivery of all aspects of translational funding. This includes engagement with key external (and internal) stakeholders, the commissioning of new activities and funding calls, effective management of a portfolio of funded proposals and the capture of key outputs and impact metrics on delivering innovations to the NHS, care system, and the UK economy.

You will work closely with the Assistant Directors of Innovations and the Head of Business Development to develop and deliver the strategic aims of the programme.

You will have an excellent understanding of the UK health innovation ecosystem and an appreciation of current and evolving technology developments and commercial exploitation routes. You will act as an ambassador for our funding programmes, representing and promoting them externally to a wide variety of stakeholders, with a particular focus on engaging with industry.

The role will be based in Twickenham with a flexible arrangement of home and office work.

The LGC GMG Innovations team manages multiple funding programmes from several clients, including the NIHR i4i Programme and the SBRI Healthcare and NHS Cancer Programmes.

The NIHR Coordinating Centre Business Development team helps industry (from SMEs to large multinationals; across a range of sectors including pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, IVD and digital technology), charity and public research funders, to work in partnership with the NIHR and the wider UK research and healthcare community to conduct research and to facilitate regulatory approval, market entry and adoption into the NHS, the UK and other global healthcare markets.

**Key responsibilities**

Key responsibilities of this role focus on overseeing the delivery of the programme operations, portfolio management & analysis, communications, stakeholder engagement, and leading strategic initiatives for programme development & staff management. The following activities are key to delivering the Programme Lead role effectively:
**Programme operations**
- Championing the developing of implementation of the new initiatives in collaborations with other teams within the NIHR and consultation with innovators and researchers and ensuring relevant approval
- Supporting the annual strategic and operational business planning process and timely reporting to the client
- Overseeing the timely and effective delivery of competition delivery, due diligence and contracting of awarded proposals, and monitoring and post-close monitoring of the programme portfolio
- Managing the financial reporting and forecasting with the finance team, including ratification papers
- Identify synergies that can be created across the different programmes and drive continuous improvement
- Overseeing team compliance with work instructions, tools and systems, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and consistent reporting
- Monitoring a small portfolio of projects, maintaining oversight of progress against milestones and continuously reviewing the risk status
- Managing relevant sub-contractors to ensure appropriate delivery of the agreed activities

**Portfolio management and analysis**
- Leading on portfolio management within an appropriate risk
- and impact-based framework, ensuring consistency of processes and data management across the team
- Leading on portfolio analysis and collection of relevant metrics to support activities around programme promotion, business intelligence, impact and evaluation
- Overseeing the maintenance of a case study pipeline for programme promotion, customer reporting and shared learning

**Stakeholder engagement & c

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