Business Engagement Lead

2 weeks ago


Didcot, United Kingdom Satellite Applications Catapult Full time

Employment Type Full time- Location Hybrid - Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire (2 days minimum office based)- Salary £30,000 - £35,000 (GBP)- Seniority Junior- **Closing**: 5:30pm, 19th Sep 2023 BST

**Perks and benefits**:

- Flexible working hours- Work from home option- Healthcare- Life Insurance- Wellness programs- Employee Assistance Programme- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave- Extra holiday- Sabbatical Opportunities- Professional development- Paid volunteer days- Salary sacrifice- Team social events- Extracurricular clubs- Cycle to work scheme**Job Description**:
Business Engagement Lead

Purpose:
The Satellite Applications Catapult works with and helps to grow businesses of all sizes across the UK space sector.

The Business Engagement Lead is the first point of contact for businesses wishing to get involved with the Catapult. We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our National Capabilities and Clusters Team and be responsible for coordinating, supporting and managing all space sector business engagements with the Catapult, facilitating access to technical and market expertise as required to secure success for their ventures. An exciting challenge is for you run the Catapult’s monthly networking event “Satuccino” for our vibrant community, alongside the Catapult Co-space, technical webinars and business support sessions.

You will represent the Catapult at business facing events and be the primary point of contact for businesses. You will be managing the coordination of business support across the UK alongside other organisations e.g. UKSA, ESA, Innovate UK. Another important aspect of the role will include tracking and monitoring the success of the organisations supported by the Catapult and developing impact case studies to highlight their growth.

Business Engagement Lead Skills & Experience required:

- Experience of working within an innovation and business support environment.
- Effective team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to coordinate and work alongside senior staff, technical experts and business support providers.
- Experience of working in an organised manner in a dynamic environment.
- Experience of working with and influencing a variety of external stakeholders.
- Excellent planning, coordination, and organisation skills.
- Ability to provide inspiration and encouragement to businesses where needed but also to give frank advice where appropriate.
- Comfortable developing content and presenting to external parties.
- Experience of reporting against delivery milestones
- Organised with an attention to detail
- Enjoy solving problems and developing solutions
- Confident user of Microsoft products
- Experience of organising events, workshops and webinars.

Behaviours expected:

- Professionalism
- Collaborative
- Credibility
- Innovation & Creativity
- Continuous Improvement
- Decisive Thinking
- Curiosity
- Driven to Deliver
- Passion for Innovation
- Proactivity & Motivation

The purpose of your new team:
The National Capabilities and Clusters Team’s vision is to create a thriving and connected UK space ecosystem by growing productive UK Space clusters and a vibrant space community, working collaboratively to build national capabilities, delivering UK strategic priorities and growing the economy.

Together we deliver this by:

- Supporting local leadership teams to develop sustainable growth strategies and become part of a productive cluster network recognised internationally
- Connecting stakeholder communities and build bridges between industry, government, and academia enhancing knowledge exchange and collaborative opportunities
- Stimulating the growth of national capabilities through improved innovation services, infrastructure interventions and business scale up support programmes

Success factors: You know you have been successful when
- You have supported the Catapult to achieve its targets for business engagement.
- You have developed new relationships between the Catapult and businesses from both space and non-space sector
- You have formed strong relationships with leads of other UK-wide business support programmes and have identified opportunities for collaboration.
- You have high engagement levels with organisations attending networking events, workshops, conferences, SME supply chain events.
- You have supported businesses through the lifecycle of the Catapult Innovation Services Programmes
- You have showcased the work of the team through quarterly reviews reports and engaging case studies.
- You have supported connections between Harwell and other clusters
- You have developed the co-space and created a vibrant community

The purpose of your new team:
To grow the utilisation of satellite and space technology across multiple key markets and industries. In doing so we create the opportunity for UK industry and Academia to develop innovative and viable solutions t



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