Business Development/Innovation Consultant

• Salary to 100,000K per annum
• An open and vibrant start-up environment
• Hybrids working opportunity (2 days home, 3 days office)
• Flexible working hours
• Free onsite parking
• Walking distance to local rail links
• Choose your own equipment
• Generous holiday allowance
• Regular social company gatherings
• A stake in a high-growth business
• Mentor programme
• Profit-sharing bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Permanent health insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Life assurance
• Support for career progression
• 25 Days annual leave pro rata
• Innovation minded team player that enjoys working with cutting edge technology and brands.
• Previous experience in consulting essential.

Please note it is essential you have a blend of business development (developing your own portfolio of clients), as well as clear evidence of working in the Innovation sector (prototyping, demo's etc).

You will work closely with our clients in running innovation projects, workshops and spotting new ideas and technology in R&D and product development projects. Working with the inventors, engineers and scientists, you will support them in finding the best ways of protecting the ideas, concepts and Intellectual Property (IP) generated. Together with your colleagues, you will be part of a team building high-quality IP portfolios for our clients giving them competitive advantage and securing future revenues.

Our client is looking for driven and well organised person with a background in consultancy, and experience delivering key projects for industry leaders within an innovation consulting role. Ideally you will also have experience working within an interdisciplinary team, as well as independent end to end execution of projects.

Skills Needed:

• Experience directly managing multiple stakeholders across multiple projects.
• Strong strategic thinker with exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• A self-starter who is excited about the opportunity of building a consultancy business from the ground up.
• Experience working in a start-up or scale up environment and familiarity of working closely with Customer Success is ideal.
• Innovation and ideation projects
• Client management and building new relationships
• Providing training to both clients and other team members on IP awareness.
• Instructing internal teams according to set strategy.
• Being responsible for quality, profit and project planning and delivery.
• Being responsible for monitoring the execution of strategy.

What we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience in working in innovation and R&D.
• 3+ years experience of business development or pre sales.
• Self-starter and a team player.
• Domain knowledge engineering, life science or software.
• Great client management and project organisation skills.
• Keen to build their own network and perform business development activities.
• Must be proactive and business savvy.
• Passionate about innovation, business, startups.
• Able to translate legalese into a plain business language.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Gym membership

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus

Application question(s):

• Right to work in the UK (If visa, please indicate type and expiry)?
• Strong consultancy background?
• Innovation success in which sectors?
• Commutable to the Duxford area, at least 3 days per week initially?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Duxford