Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

Manager

• Lead a portfolio of products and innovation-need areas
• Manage products and initiatives with direct or indirect colleague involvement
• Deliver tailored support packages to industry and innovators, including one-to-one and one-to-many offerings
• Contribute to bids, grant applications, contracts and income-generation activities
• Develop new service offerings and cultivate existing and new customer demand
• Build partnerships between NHS and commercial-sector organisations to accelerate innovation adoption
• Support innovators in accessing health and social care, commercialisation, market access and real-world validation
• Help innovators grow, create jobs and leverage private and public funding
• Review and triage companies for Health Innovation KSS and national support
• Design, plan and implement programmes addressing jobs, investment and export outcomes
• Provide ongoing support for companies navigating health and social care
• Share case studies, lessons learned and successful innovation implementations
• Work with subcontractors and maintain innovator signposting resources
• Produce monthly informal and quarterly formal reports
• Horizon-scan for innovations suitable for adoption, spread or co-design
• Prepare and deliver reports, seminars, workshops, briefings and presentations
• Interpret national policy and advise innovators on product development and market access
• Represent Health Innovation KSS at meetings with Health Innovation Networks and other stakeholders
• Support implementation of Office for Life Sciences and NHS England objectives
• Work with stakeholders across industry, NHS and social care, business-support organisations, commercial funding bodies and academia
• Travel to satellite offices across Kent, Surrey and Sussex as required
• Report to the Head of Portfolio – Innovation & Enterprise and support the Director of Innovation & Enterprise

Innovation Manager – Maternity Cover, 12M FTC