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Innovation Manager – Maternity Cover, 12M FTC
Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex. Lead a portfolio of products and innovation-need areas .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in project and portfolio management within the health and social care sectors, with a strong focus on innovation, partnership building, and income generation. Capable of delivering tailored support to innovators and managing multiple projects to drive business growth and market access.
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Project Management QualificationHealth and Social Care KnowledgeFinancial and Performance ManagementExcellent Communication SkillsExperience Supporting Industry Growth
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Hard Skills
Project ManagementPortfolio ManagementIncome GenerationBusiness Growth SupportResource ManagementAnalytical ThinkingComplex Information AnalysisBid WritingClinical Transformation ProjectsHealth-Tech Experience
Soft Skills
Influencing SkillsNegotiating SkillsFacilitation SkillsPartnership WorkingReliability
Tools & Technologies
Microsoft OfficeCollaborative Working Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
Degree in Relevant DisciplineProject Management Qualification
Industry Keywords
Health InnovationNHSCommercialisationMarket AccessHealth-TechInnovation AdoptionPublic FundingPrivate FinanceHealth and Care ExperienceBusiness-Case Advice
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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
Requirements
What you’ll need- Educated to degree standard or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Project or portfolio management qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of supporting industry within a company or through business support and accelerators, with emphasis on business growth
- Significant recent management experience in the NHS, industry/supporting innovators, or another relevant-sector organisation
- Evidence of effective partnership working
- Proven experience managing a range of projects or companies concurrently
- Experience managing resources to support project/programme delivery
- Financial and performance management experience
- Experience working with staff at all levels
- Knowledge of the health and/or social care sectors
- Ability to think strategically and analytically
- Ability to analyse and synthesise complex information
- Ability to contribute to the income-generation pipeline through innovation programmes
- Excellent communication, influencing and negotiating skills
- Advanced IT skills, including collaborative working tools and Microsoft Office
- Facilitation skills to direct and support teams toward measurable outcomes
- Reliable work record
- Ability to travel within the Kent, Surrey and Sussex patch
- Desirable: experience supporting or working within a health-tech company/innovation landscape
- Desirable: health and care experience, clinical or managerial
- Desirable: business-case advice to health-tech companies
- Desirable: clinical transformation projects and UK health and care
- Desirable: raising private finance and bid writing
- Desirable: driving licence
Benefits
Comp & perks- 33 days annual leave per year, rising to 34 days after two years’ service and 35 days after five years’ service
- UK Bank Holidays
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Flexible hours
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for staff and immediate family members
- Option to enrol in the WPA NHS Top-Up Health Insurance Scheme
- Two face-to-face Team Days per year
- Tax-efficient salary sacrifice scheme with any registered pension scheme
- Workplace pension scheme with automatic enrolment when eligible
- Season ticket loan
- Full-time hours of 37.5 hours per week