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PLACE BASED IMPACT ACCELERATION ACCOUNT (PBIAA) BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Grade H (£38,394 - £43,188 p.a. pro rata)
Four Years, Fixed Term
We are looking for a PBIAA Business Engagement Manager with a strong track record in fostering new academic-business collaborations to join the growing team at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). This is a new role, which will create capacity by forming new and nurturing existing relationships with industry leaders, start-ups and scale-ups, and commercial organisations, to facilitate the acceleration of world class research into ground breaking rehabilitation technologies and ensuring the success of the PBIAA programme.
About NTU’s PBIAA
The East Midlands is at the forefront of rehabilitation and associated technologies, recognised by the Government’s £105M investment in the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC). In 2024, NTU won £2.5M from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to support a four-year programme of knowledge exchange and impact activities that will catalyse on the region’s success and launch the East Midlands as the UK’s ‘RehabTech Valley’—a leading hub for RehabTech excellence, analogous to the impact of the UK’s Formula 1 Motorsport Valley.
Our PBIAA aims to build mechanisms currently missing to connect East Midlands’s cluster of 459 MedTech SMEs with our region’s world-class research and innovation, ensuring they dominate the design, development, and delivery of pioneering RehabTech to provide a boost to regional growth and productivity and ultimately transform health outcomes and inequalities. The 30-strong consortium is led by NTU, with the Universities of Nottingham, Loughborough, and Derby, and partners spanning medical and health tech organisations, the NHS, local government, and economic development.
About the PBIAA Business Engagement Manager Role
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a strong track record of industry engagement, with a demonstrable understanding of the mechanisms required for fostering effective academic-business collaboration. They will be a skilled communicator and influencer, with the ability to build rapport and develop strong working relationships with individuals across disparate organisations and sectors.
The successful candidate will be genuinely interested in the role research and innovation can play in enhancing business growth and productivity. They will be someone who quickly assimilates new information and intelligence, proactively makes linkages between different people, projects, and opportunities, and has the tenacity and organisational skills to create new opportunities for knowledge exchange between our researchers and the wider MedTech sector to help progress the PBIAA programme and deliver positive outcomes and impacts.
Interview Date: 23 January 2025
About us
This role sits within the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF), with a dotted line into the Research Strategy and Operations Team to ensure you feel fully integrated into and a part of the wider research-facing Professional Services community. The role reports to the Managing Director of MTIF and you will work closely with the PBIAA Lead and Co-Leads and NTU’s Research Impact Manager. We operate on a hybrid basis with the team spending some time every week co-located, because we know the value of building relationships, sharing intelligence and ideas, and feeling part of something real.
For more details, please take a look at the job description and person specification (below). We are working hard to build a positive and supportive culture which includes a diverse team with a mix of experiences and backgrounds; we will still consider applications even if you do not meet every single one of the requirements, so please do not be put off if you do not match them perfectly!
Should you require any further information, please get in touch with Professor John Hunt, the PBIAA Project Lead: john.hunt@ntu.ac.uk.
Join us
We also offer:
Between 25 and 35 days annual leave per year (dependent on grade) plus statutory bank holidays and 5 university closure days pro rata
Salary Sacrifice Retirement Savings Plan with life assurance and income protection. Available to colleagues who choose to opt out of the contractual pension scheme. Minimum colleague contributions of 0% matched with minimum NTU contributions of 8%.
Opportunity to receive a bonus for exceptional performance and contribution
Range of health and wellbeing services, voluntary benefits, discounts, and savings for all colleagues.
And a whole lot more…
Safe and Inclusive
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Whilst this role is currently eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Route, upcoming immigration rules changes may impact on eligibility for sponsorship, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa for more information.
This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and successful applicants will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions.
