Business Development Manager

Description:

To deliver business development for Energy Technologies working closely with research teams to identify and secure industrial engagement opportunities for WMG as well as WMG’s multi-million-pound HVM Catapult; helping to realise WMG’s vision and objectives to deliver the technologies, knowledge, and people to the industries of tomorrow, and to maximise opportunity, innovation, and growth for WMG and UK plc.

To report to and work closely with WMG’s Head of Business Development - Research, as well as working constructively with the Business Development Managers in other research disciplines and those in the SME group and across Education, to realise significant opportunity with a multi-disciplinary approach; identifying and developing strategic and tactical prospects that strongly align with WMG’s overall vision. This is a both a technical and management role, with an ability to be responsible for all aspects of business development with multiple stakeholders, as well as the management and delivery of agreed objectives multi-sector across a diversity of research teams.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

About You

You will be a confident individual with a demonstrable track record of successful commercial management and achievement of challenging revenue targets within a technical or research environment. WMG was created to work with and for industry and is a leading international example of how academia works successfully with the private and public sectors, and this applied approach and understanding will form a critical aspect of your role. You will be able to demonstrate success in the securing of significant new business together with the ability to establish personal credibility with a broad range of management and technical practitioners. With a good understanding of the funding landscape, you will also help to generate potential public funding / collaborative research and development (CR&D) funding proposals and partners for Energy research areas, as well as helping to contribute to the wider WMG centre High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult remit.