R&D Manager - Lead Applied Innovation & Pilot Scale

ISL Talent; Bradley Stoke; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited annual leave

20 days paid sick leave

Employee share options

Enhanced parental leave

Wellbeing bonus

Pension via salary sacrifice

Employee Assistance Programme via Bupa

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Origen Carbon is building zero-emission lime and applying it as the foundation for carbon removal. We are hiring an R&D Manager to own the roadmap, oversee experiments, and lead a small, skilled team in Bristol with strong collaboration across business units.

You will report to the VP Technology and shape the function, balancing scientific rigor with commercial impact while managing budgets and cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• You've managed people directly, including people who might know more about the science than you do.
• You've led applied R&D somewhere that things actually got built, tested or scaled, not just researched.
• You're commercially minded and can connect day-to-day research to what the business needs

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day delivery of the R&D and innovation roadmap.
• Turn our technology direction into concrete workstreams, experiments and milestones.
• Lead applied R&D from early concept through to pilot-scale validation.
• Manage and develop the team directly, including people more scientifically specialised than you.
• Plan R&D budget and resourcing alongside our VP Technology and Finance.
• Support CFD and virtual approaches to new product development at Origen.
• Feed inventions and freedom-to-operate considerations into our IP pipeline.
• Work with our commercial team to connect research priorities to what the business actually needs.
• Build relationships with universities, research partners and grant funders

Skills

People management

Applied R&D

CFD

Modelling (systems/unit operations)

Industrial decarbonisation

Commercial awareness

Job description

Origen Carbon is building zero-emission lime and applying it as the foundation for carbon removal. We are hiring an R&D Manager to own the roadmap, oversee experiments, and lead a small, skilled team in Bristol with strong collaboration across business units.

You will report to the VP Technology and shape the function, balancing scientific rigor with commercial impact while managing budgets and cross-functional partners.