Innovation & Growth Specialist

2 weeks ago


Chesterfield, United Kingdom East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) Full time

East Midlands Chamber is a well-respected and award winning organisation that aims to enhance businesses and communities. As part of the longstanding partnership with Innovate UK, the Innovation Services team provide business support throughout the Midlands.

**Job title**: Innovation & Growth Specialist
**Salary**:£42,500 to £45,000 per annum
**Based at**:Chesterfield, Derby, Leicester or Nottingham with agile working (Lincoln based applicants also considered). Additional travel required
**Contract**: Fixed term until 31 March 2025, full time (35 hours per week)

**1. WHY THE POST EXISTS**

Can you seek and identify businesses with ideas and ambitions to succeed on a global scale? Do you have experience of exceeding expectations and delivering impactful business support in the Midlands?

As part of the Chamber’s Innovation Services team, the Innovation & Growth Specialists focus on delivering bespoke business support to Innovate UK Business Growth clients who want to grow and scale at pace. Specialists are key to helping businesses realise their ambitions.

This role operates as an experienced coach, mentor, critical friend and champion for a group of clients. Knowledge of UK Government Future Economies is vital, as is an understanding of investment raising.

This contract is funded through Innovate UK.

**2. THE KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY**
- Provide innovation and business advice to a portfolio of growth and scale clients.
- Make a significant contribution to the development of competitiveness of East Midlands businesses across the UK and global markets.
- Act as a strategic coach and mentor to SME clients to support them in developing their own long-term growth and innovation commercialisation plans.
- Provide an account management function for the delivery of business support services, that enable clients to enhance their innovation management capacity.
- Use business analysis tools to review client needs and provide tailored support through Innovate UK Business Growth services and wider Ecosystem of business support.
- Focus on supporting the most ambitious, high-growth potential, innovative SMEs to benefit from national and global opportunities.
- Provide information and guidance on exploit innovation, signposting or referring to professional support as required.

**3. IDEALLY APPLICANTS WILL POSSESS**
- Business experience at a senior level within the high growth and R&D business environment.
- Strategic and management or consultancy experience in the commercialising of ideas, including IP, access to investment finance and internationalisation.
- Assessing risk through analysis of business plans, financial accounts, and other supporting information.
- Interpreting outputs of business diagnostic and benchmarking tools, developing action plans to support growth and scale.
- Critical appraisal of bids for innovation funding.
- Understanding of the business support landscape together with funding and support available through Innovate UK.

**4. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN RETURN**
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays each year (pro rata for part time).
- 8% non-contributory pension scheme.
- Wellbeing support including access to Westfield Health plan, Mental Health First Aiders, self help toolkits, discounts and more.
- Your Birthday off plus an extra day of leave after 5 and 10 years' service.
- Life assurance (death in service support scheme) for your beneficiaries.
- Dress for the day policy and agile working practices (role dependent).
- 2 CSR days to take per year (volunteering activity).
- Access to tax-free childcare and Bike2Work schemes.
- Special leave for bereavement, compassionate leave & dependent related time off.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Flexibility to take unpaid leave, paid study leave & special leave for territorial army.
- Recognition and engagement schemes including our Our Stars.
- Tax free 45p per business mile for cars (up to 10,000 miles per year).

**5. HOW TO APPLY**

If you have an enthusiastic approach to your work and feel you could make a significant contribution to our organisation, we would like to hear from you.

**6. COMPANY STATEMENT**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Pay: £42,500.00-£45,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- No weekends

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chesterfield


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