Associate Director of Commercial Partnerships

Medical Research Council; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent research organization in the UK seeks an Associate Director of Commercial Partnerships to forge collaborations in biomedical research. The role involves securing partnerships with pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, ensuring they align with organizational strategies, and effectively engaging various stakeholders. Ideal candidates should have extensive senior management experience in the healthcare sector, strong negotiation skills, and a good understanding of the sector's dynamics. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Defined benefit pension scheme

30 days annual leave

Employee discounts

Flexible working options

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in senior management in relevant sectors.
• Extensive portfolio delivery experience at national levels.
• Understanding of research and innovation in healthcare.
• Experience in strategy development in medical research.

Responsibilities

• Form partnerships to support biomedical research.
• Engage with stakeholders across various industries.
• Secure partnerships aligned with MRC's strategic priorities.
• Communicate effectively with industry stakeholders.

Skills

Senior management experience

Business development leadership

Partnership building

Negotiation skills

Understanding of healthcare sector

Stakeholder management

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent qualification

Job description

Associate Director of Commercial Partnerships, 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 will ensure that MRC has an effective approach to partnership and collaboration across pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech industries and with the UK wide investment community.

Alongside developing external partnerships, the role requires working in partnership across UKRI as appropriate and extensive collaboration with other members of the MRC's Senior Executive Team, supporting their portfolios through partnership.

Purpose

Developing, maintaining and publicising MRC's strategic and operational relationships with commercial partners across the financial and health and life sciences sector.

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 with angel investors, venture builders, venture capital, private equity and other sources of commercial investment.
• Securing 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, as well as delivering precision prevention, early diagnosis and advanced treatments of disease.
• Ensure all existing and future MRC commercial partnerships deliver against their objectives and deliver on 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.

A well thought through application providing evidence and examples of how you meet the advertised essential and desirable criteria for the post will be considered far more favourably than a generic covering letter and CV. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.

Nationality requirements

• UK nationals
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre‑settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre‑settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Qualifications

• Significant experience of senior management in public, private or charity sector with business development leadership.
• Extensive experience of delivering a portfolio of work at national levels.
• Significant experience of building partnerships and collaboration in the medical and healthcare sector with commercial organisations at a senior level.
• A 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.
• Management of diverse and complex stakeholders and with the ability to negotiate successfully to meet the needs of individual parties within the experience of agreeing deals in the medical and healthcare sector including government and commercial partners.
• A developed understanding of the international research funding landscape.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £70,752, Medical Research Council contributes £20,496 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and strive to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

A list of benefits below:

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
• 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice
• Flexible working options
• Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

For further information on our benefits please see: Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)