Discovery Opportunities Manager
6 days ago
Innovation Discovery Manager
">Job Description:The Innovation Factory's 'Innovation Discovery Team' is responsible for proactively engaging with inventors/innovators to identify, evaluate and describe opportunities that have the potential to generate significant beneficial economic, social, and environmental impact where there is Intellectual Property owned by the University.
">- Outreach into the University's three faculties to maximise engagement with the Innovation Factory and create enthusiasm for translating high-quality innovations into licensable IP and new spinout businesses.
- Organises and leads events; explains the importance of IP commercialisation; runs seminars explaining the IP commercialisation process and participates at other academic events to highlight the benefits to the university of commercialisation activities.
Once the Innovation Discovery Team has identified a potential opportunity the members of the team will carry out an initial assessment and evaluation of the opportunity and decide whether, or not, to propose progression within the Innovation Factory's process.
">Role Summary: To proactively engage with inventors/innovators to identify, evaluate and describe opportunities that have the potential to generate significant beneficial economic, social, and environmental impact where there is Intellectual Property owned by the University, facilitating the progress and successful transition of projects towards commercialisation.
">Key Accountabilities:
">- Proactively identify new opportunities by building a comprehensive network/database of contacts within allocated Schools/Departments in the University's Faculty of Life Sciences and relevant research Institutes.
- Build a comprehensive knowledge of research programs being conducted within these areas.
- Ascertain the commitment of the inventors to create impact from the invention.
- Explain to inventors the IP commercialisation process and the responsibilities of the Innovation Factory and the inventor.
Record and assess new opportunities by being the first point of contact for the inventor and triage the opportunity appropriately. Update the Innovation Factory's IP Management tools and databases in an accurate and timely manner with all new inventions/innovations and associated information according to company procedure.
">Contribute to assessment and development of business cases for projects post-Stage gate by preparing plans for Stage Gate 2 in close collaboration with the Commercial Development and Investment & Licensing Teams in accordance with our procedures.
">Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
">- Demonstrable experience in the field of Life Sciences research.
- Curious about new life science developments and market-specific trends.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate complex issues clearly.
Qualifications:
">- Higher degree in a Life Sciences related subject or equivalent experience.
- Market-leading pension scheme.
- 32 days annual leave entitlement, including bank holidays and end-of-year office closure, rising with length of service.
- Private health care and dental care.
If you're excited by the opportunity to help turn world-changing ideas into real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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