Specialist - Innovation Collaboration and Funding - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job
title:
Specialist

Innovation

Collaboration and Funding

Team:
Innovation Collaboration and Funding

Location:
Any Scottish Enterprise office in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee or Aberdeen, with home working options available

Salary:
£44,276

Hours:
Full time

Status:
Permanent

Closing
date: 10 March 2023

Job ref no:
R00401

Innovation, internationalisation and investment are key priorities for Scottish Enterprise as we look to build a thriving economy. Scottish Enterprise is actively focused on delivering Scotland's net zero targets, through supporting sustainable and low-carbon growth.

In partnership with Innovate UK, Scottish Enterprise is now delivering Innovate UK EDGE - an exciting new programme designed to help Scottish businesses:

Get the most from innovation
Access international markets and partners to explore global opportunities
Bring in innovation funding and achieve growth ambitions.

Our team is looking to recruit two Innovation, Collaboration and Funding Specialists to support this work.

You'll be part of a national network of more than 350 innovation and growth specialists working across all UK regional ecosystems, and a global business and innovation network of more than 3000 people.

The role:

Working with your colleagues across Scottish Enterprise, you'll intervene at early, growth and scaling stages to deploy IUK EDGE core advisory services.

You'll work closely with innovative companies across different sectors with different challenges, ultimately helping them to achieve sustainable growth.

Your expertise in innovation and/or understanding of business drivers will help inform these companies' commercial decisions in three key areas:

Innovation
support to form an innovation, funding, collaboration and commercialisation action plan.
Collaboration and Global growth market readiness and introductions to strategic partners through global networks and tailored programmes to deliver their international action plan.

Your responsibilities will include:

Defining and delivering IUK EDGE support across your client portfolio
Establishing and nurturing strong relationships with clients you'll give support, know their priorities, and present them with relevant opportunities
Building strong partnerships across the business and innovation landscapes you'll navigate the support landscape with ease to help Scottish smalltomidsized enterprises (SMEs) achieve their sustainable growth ambitions
Building strong relationships with international network partners and their sector or thematic working groups to help SMEs find global connections and inmarket expertise

Who we're looking for:

You'll be confident in providing support to a range of innovative businesses and have a keen interest in sustainable drivers and solutions.

Your time working in industry or in business support means that you are passionate about helping businesses grow.

You are customer focused and curious - if you can deliver creative solutions and like to solve problems in less conventional ways, we'd love to hear from you.

Your skills, abilities and experience should include:

Experience of working strategically
being able to see the 'bigger picture' is key to helping companies start their innovation and international journeys
Experience of commercialisation to help businesses examine business models and routes to market
Experience of demonstrating creativity, critical thinking and complex problem solving
A history of providing business advice or consultancy you'll be results driven but relationship led, and able to demonstrate how you've directly helped to make a difference
Strong customer focus and ability to generate business leads you will be as happy working with a referral as you are building your own connections and uncovering ambitious businesses

Ideally, but not essentially, you'll also have experience working across a wide range of industry sectors.

But, if you have a passion for key innovation and business principles, and a customer-centric approach, we'll help you adapt them to a broader range of sectors.

What we offer:

If successful, you'll gain access to the following benefits:

Membership of the Scottish Enterprise Pension and Life Assurance Scheme
pension based on your final pensionable salary, flexible retirement options and generous life assurance cover
Up to 43 annual leave days a year (including public holidays) with the opportunity to buy additional holidays
Flexible working arrangements
A health cash plan
Our Employee Retail Benefits Scheme
Our Employee Assistance Scheme

How to apply:

Interview dates

1st stage interviews will take place on 23 March 202 2nd stage interviews will take place on 30 March 2023

Our values:

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our f