Partnership Manager National Composite Centre

Rolls-Royce plc; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in aerospace innovation seeks a Partnership Manager for their Bristol research centre. This role focuses on overseeing RR funded programmes, leading project delivery, and engaging with stakeholders to align technical objectives. The ideal candidate will possess an engineering degree, strong project management skills, and excellent communication abilities. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, supporting a culture of inclusion and professional development.

Benefits

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified engineer (UK minimum BEng degree or equivalent).
• Knowledge of legal, contracts, collaboration, IP management.
• Organised with project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure successful delivery of RR funded programmes at the research centre.
• Lead improvement activities for efficient delivery of high-quality research.
• Communicate and represent the company with stakeholders and partners.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

BEng degree or equivalent

Job description

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Job Description

Partnership Manager National Composite Centre

Full time

Bristol

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within Civil Aerospace, therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

What you will be doing

You’ll be responsible for the successful delivery of all the RR funded programmes of work at the research centre, through working with both the centre’s staff and RR business teams. Ensure, with the support of the respective GPO's and wider business stakeholders, that the technical direction of the research at the centre aligns to our own.

You will lead improvement activities to improve the safe, secure, timely, and cost-effective delivery of high-quality research, for Rolls-Royce, at the centre. Represent and communicate the views of Rolls-Royce at centre and take a leadership role in broadening, growing and maintaining our portfolio of work. On occasion lead specific projects/activities either at the centre or on behalf of Manufacturing Technology.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Governance - Represent the company on the relevant technical / operational committees. Ensure that our membership fees are spent wisely. Through the quality system raise concerns and opportunities for improvement and drive close out. Pull together senior RR stakeholders and the centres leadership to align thinking on a regular basis.
• Successful Projects - Ensure that projects are well defined, planned correctly, technically appropriate and, once running, that the joint teams operate in a fashion that deliver solutions that add value.
• Technical Alignment - Through partnership with the appropriate RR specialists, put in place, at the centre, joint roadmaps and associated core research projects to expand our technical knowledge. In addition, influence equipment selection at the centre and resource capability.
• Strategic Fit - Proactively engage in the development of the centre and look for opportunities to marry current and emergent capability to requirements from across the business.
• Continuous Improvement - Help to develop network wide improvement solutions and centre specific activities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the work we do.
• Safe and Secure - Work with the centre to enable RR personnel to carry out work in an environment that is compliant with our corporate health and safety guidance. In addition, continuously review and fix, if required, systems and processes to secure our intellectual property.
• Project Leadership - On behalf of Manufacturing Technology or a new/remote business personally lead specific projects, either within the centre or occasionally beyond, these can be technical or strategic in nature.
• Communication and Marketing - Project the company and our interests with the employees of the centre, other members, funding agencies and other associated entities e.g. Universities. Represent the company in respect to VIP visits to the centre. Manage communications on behalf of the company, working with corporate comms and government relations to ensure content is correct.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Professionally qualified Engineer (UK minimum BEng degree or another national equivalent)
• Knowledge of legal, contracts, collaboration agreements and IP management
• Organised and demonstrated ability to create and manage projects from inception through execution
• Ability to build strong partnerships with internal and external customers and key stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills
• Understanding of funding mechanisms and contacts in the funding agencies
• Perseverance and ability to work independently to identify, prioritize and act upon emerging issues

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing date: 30th June 2025

Job Category

Manufacturing Engineering

Posting Date

16 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

30 Jun 2025

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