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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Business Development Manager in Innovation
15 hours per week for 23 months
An exciting opportunity exists to secure the role of Business Development Manager in Innovation.
Your role will be to provide leadership in securing external funding to enable programmes and projects of pre-procurement innovation activity in NHS Grampian and the North of Scotland. You will coordinate efforts across health and social care, academia, industry and other agencies to ensure innovation business development reflects organisational, regional and national strategic priorities and exploits North East and North of Scotland assets and expertise. A key component of your role will be to horizon scan funding opportunities and lead or co-lead with industry and academic partners on grant submissions. You will likely already have an extensive network consisting of experts and leaders across NHS Scotland, other health and social care organisations across the UK and beyond, industry, academia and funding bodies, which will help to ensure generation of high quality, competitive proposals.
You will work closely with, and be supported by, the Innovation Team, our Triple Helix Group (which consists of senior staff from the NHS, academia and industry), and the North of Scotland Innovation Senior Leadership Team.
You will be a dynamic and visionary leader, with excellent multi-disciplinary working skills. You will understand the nature of pre-procurement innovation activity, grant application processes, and the substantial challenges facing health and social care organisations. You will be at home working skilfully within an environment characterised by changing priorities and uncertainty. You will have demonstrable expertise in test-bedding innovation in the NHS, and proven strong track record of securing external funding.
This post is offered as a fixed term or secondment opportunity.
For informal discussions, please contact:
Dr Andy Keen, Clinical Lead for Innovation, NHS Grampian
Email: andrew.keen@nhs.scot