Associate Director Fire Engineer

Medical Research Council; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 71,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health research organization is seeking an Associate Director of Commercial Partnerships to forge and manage partnerships that support biomedical research across the UK. The successful candidate will have significant experience in senior management and partnership building within the medical and healthcare sectors. They will negotiate with stakeholders to drive strategic priorities and ensure impactful collaborations. This role offers a competitive salary of £70,752 per annum, with flexible work options.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of senior management in public, private or charity sector.
• Experience managing diverse and complex stakeholders.
• Developed understanding of the role of research and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Establish and support engagement with industry stakeholders.
• Secure partnerships aligned with MRC’s strategic priorities.
• Support commercialisation of MRC-funded intellectual property.

Skills

Business development leadership

Partnership building

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Understanding of medical research and healthcare sector

Job description

Purpose

Forming partnerships and collaborations to fund and support biomedical research across the UK is essential to deliver impact for the UK population. Working with the Director of National Partnerships, the Associate Director of Commercial Partnerships ensures that MRC has an effective approach to partnership and collaboration across pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech industries, and with the UK wide investment community.

Responsibilities

• Establish new and support existing approaches to engagement with MRC’s industry stakeholders across pharma, biotech, health tech, AI and medtech.
• Establish new and support existing approaches to engagement with the UK investment community, including angel investors, venture builders, venture capital, private equity and other sources of commercial investment.
• Secure partnerships that will deliver MRC’s strategic priorities: supporting research that will deliver a deeper, mechanistic and integrated understanding of disease; increasing UK capability and capacity for medical research; and delivering precision prevention, early diagnosis and advanced treatments of disease.
• Ensure all existing and future MRC commercial partnerships deliver against their objectives and MRC priorities.
• Establish opportunities for co‑funding research and commercial partnerships through the MRC’s institutes, other UKRI investments and wider public sector.
• Ensure that MRC has effective engagement and communication with key industry stakeholders through trade associations and similar organisations.
• Support the exploitation and commercialisation of MRC‑funded intellectual property arising from MRC institutes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of senior management in public, private or charity sector with business development leadership.
• Extensive experience delivering a portfolio of work at national levels.
• Significant experience building partnerships and collaboration in the medical and healthcare sector with commercial organisations at senior level.
• Developed understanding of the role of research and innovation in delivering UK strategic research and innovation objectives, with experience of developing strategy in the medical research and healthcare sector.
• Experience managing diverse and complex stakeholders with the ability to negotiate successfully to meet the needs of individual parties, including government and commercial partners.
• Developed understanding of the international research funding landscape.

Compensation and Engagement

Medical Research Council Salary: £70,752 per annum (plus £5,385 London allowance if applicable). Band: UKRI Band G. Secondment welcome (host employer will be remunerated). 12‑month contract, open‑ended. Hours: full‑time/part‑time (minimum 0.8 FTE), flexible working.