Innovation Lead

4 weeks ago


Remote, United Kingdom Innovate UK Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 308115**Salary**:

- £47,000 - £55,000- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- Innovate UK Band 3**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- Until 30th September 2025**Business area**:

- IUK - Innovation and Impact**Type of role**:

- Knowledge and Information Management**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Remote working (anywhere in the UK)About the job

**Job summary**:
**Job Purpose**:
**Job description**:
**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Contribute to the development and promotion of the Innovate UK strategy in Made Smarter Innovation based on a good understanding of relevant industries and technologies and wider innovation infrastructure.
- Lead on the implementation of the strategy to enable industry to develop and commercialise new products, processes, business models and services.
- Build strong relationships with relevant bodies and networks such as businesses, trade associations, Catapults, government departments and agencies, private investors, regulatory bodies and research organisations.
- Ensure that UK activity is set in an international context and recognises regional strengths across the UK.
- Work with Innovate UK and UKRI colleagues and networks to ensure that decisions made in this area make sense in the context of the wider organisation, strategically and operationally.
- Represent Innovate UK and UKRI at events (such as conferences, meetings, workshops) and in the media as appropriate.
- Support impact analysis of Made Smarter Innovation programmes and projects.
- This is not an exhaustive list and you might be encouraged to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate, commensurate with the Band and level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the key experience and/or training._

**Person specification**:
**Person Specification**:
This position requires a person with commercial awareness who can manage competing priorities and a complex stakeholder environment. The role holder will need to make sense of multiple data sources, to establish underlying patterns and articulate a clear and compelling vision of what needs to be done. A good team player, willing to share knowledge on Made Smarter Innovation with others and to learn from them. Able to self-start when needed.

**Qualifications**:
**Experience**:
Essential
- Knowledge of grant funding approaches, either through structuring and delivery of grant funding, or through the delivery of grant funded projects.
- Specific technology development and/or deployment experience in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a manufacturing setting.
- Experience in sectors relevant to Made Smarter Innovation including but not limited to Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drink, Chemical and/or Automotive industries.
- Supply Chain Development.

Desirable
- Appreciation of the wider industrial landscape in the UK.
- Knowledge and experience of innovation in a commercial environment.
- Familiarity with the wider research environment.
- Ideally, experience of working across technology fields and with a broad and up-to-date understanding of developments in other technology areas.

**Skills**:

- Ability to think and act strategically.
- High degree of organisational ability and attention to detail.
- IT competency.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to present to a wide range of audiences.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.

**Competencies**:
All team members demonstrate compatibility with and capability against our Core Competencies such as:
**Thinking and Problem Solving - Stakeholder management - Communication skills - Influencing - Self-awareness/Self-management - Strategic awareness - Working with others
- Project management**

**Travel Requirements**:
Field-based: There will a requirement to travel, mostly national, and there is some flexibility in this. Innovate UK staff make extensive use of telepresence tools for meetings to minimise unnecessary travel.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £47,000, Innovate UK contributes £27 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:
1st interview incl presentation

2nd Interview

Interviews will be conducted remotely via our video conferencing facility, Zoom.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseli



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