Commercial Advisor - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Eastern Academic Health Science Network

Eastern Academic Health Science Network

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About Eastern AHSN
Our purpose at Eastern AHSN is to turn great ideas into positive health impact.

We were established by the NHS to convene all partners in the health sector, to develop and deliver innovative solutions in health and care.

Our focus is the East of England, but we are also part of a national network which enables us to deliver at scale.

Citizens, academia, health services and industry will achieve more working together than they will in isolation. Our job is to make this happen.

We do this by helping innovators to navigate complex systems, generate value propositions and connect stakeholders to overcome challenges together.

Our values and commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

Eastern AHSN is fully committed to being an inclusive employer, affording equity of opportunity and welcoming applicants from broad and diverse backgrounds.

Staff at Eastern AHSN have come together to co-produce our values and expected behaviours.

Our values focus on providing trusted expertise, being inclusive, kind and collaborative in all our working relationships and implementing innovations that truly matter to our communities and partners.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for colleagues who share not only our values but also our enthusiasm and commitment to making a difference for our communities.

We are united by being dynamic, curious, creative and adaptable.

We appreciate the value of evidence and also enjoy trying new and different approaches to solving problems and are comfortable with ambiguity, often-changing plans and unanticipated challenges.

Job summary and purpose

Eastern AHSN's Commercial Team delivers the portfolio of work funded by our commission from the Office for Life Sciences (OLS).

This work is focused on providing direct support to innovators and companies to help them to develop healthcare innovations and to support their translation into practice within the East of England.

The postholder will be expected to support SMEs and large corporates on their journey to spread and adoption readiness. This involves providing advice and guidance on market access, commercialisation, IP and alike to support growth and scale-up.

As part of this programme we help leverage (public or private) funding as the companies we support grow, which stimulates new jobs for our region.

The second element of the role is focused on adoption of innovation into the healthcare setting.

By working closely with Eastern AHSN's NHS-facing teams, the postholder will play a crucial role in the identification, assessment and introduction of new innovations that meet established NHS needs.

The post holder will be expected to possess experience within the life sciences/ medtech business or regulatory sectors.

It is essential that the post holder has a good understanding of the challenges faced in healthcare and the breadth, competitive landscape and future trends of innovations relevant to the health and social care sector.

The postholder will require programme management expertise in order to design, implement and oversee delivery of the wide range of activities across the Commercial team portfolio.

This will require a flexible, advisory mindset with the ability to engage with different stakeholder groups from public and private sectors, an ability to draw insights from a breadth of quantitative and qualitative data sources and to navigate complex processes to create positive health care impact for our region's communities.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting our Scale Up Academy in addition to other events and initiatives, both in person and hybrid, to support the innovator ecosystem at locations across the East of England and on occasion in other AHSN geographies as required.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to expanding Eastern AHSN's commissioned work to support diversification of our corporate income.

Key responsibilities

As an Advisor, the post holder will:

Provide expert advice to external stakeholders within the health tech ecosystem, primarily industry partners, to enable the development of robust value propositions for the implementation and adoption of innovation across the East of England health and social care system. This will involve communicating highly complex information to people both with and without specialist product or clinical knowledge.
Support the development of Eastern AHSN commercial activities, in order to diversify organisational income. Programmes expected to include consultancy offerings to industry that complement our core activity.
Successfully deliver consultancy services and/or commissioned programmes to clients, as required.
Support the team to ensure projects are managed effectively and enabling their successful delivery from start through to completion.
Provide project / programme support on multiple projects, ensuring these are delivered in line with agreed milestones (time and budget).
Monitor progr