Product Specialist - Scale Up

The role will focus on the development and delivery of scaleup activities as part of the Innovate UK Business Growth offer. They will support the Innovate UK Business Growth delivery partners, their scale up directors and innovation & growth specialists to ensure a consistent service offer and delivery approach across the range of support delivered.,

• Lead on the development of the Innovate UK Business Growth scaleup offer in line with the objectives set out in the Innovate UK Plan for Action/Corporate Delivery Strategy and Business Growth objectives


• Design, develop and lead appropriate structures within Innovate UK Business Growth overall support offer, to oversee the delivery of scaleup activity (e.g., Scale Up Programme, Non-Executive Director initiative)


• Identify supporting tools/software, consortium training needs, manage any related procurement and provide strategic support on the development and roll out of new scaleup initiatives


• Work with the Innovate UK Business Growth Service Design and Engagement team and wider reach and engagement functions to ensure the scaleup offer is communicated clearly to internal and external stakeholders, and all materials relating to the support are consistent with Innovate UK Business Growth strategy


• Ensure that Innovate UK Business Growth scaleup offer is aligned and engaged with activity in other parts of Innovate UK


• Develop and maintain a broad understanding of the scaleup ecosystem, working closely with partners and stakeholders


• Work with the Delivery Operations Leads to ensure that internal operational frameworks, processes and governance are in place to support the consortium to deliver scaleup activities


Line management responsibility for the Product Specialist Scaleup

• Day-to-day management of activities within the scaleup offer as a part of the Innovate UK Business Growth service Ensure Innovate UK Business Growth scaleup support and delivery is fit for purpose and achieves impact


• Management of internal stakeholders to define scope and objectives for Innovate UK Business Growth scaleup support, addressing issues with senior stakeholders ensuring they are fully engaged and able to support delivery


• Working closely with the Innovate UK Scale Up Programme team to ensure delivery partners achieve a consistent delivery approach


• Support the Innovation Lead in ensuring interfaces and dependencies between internal stakeholders are managed effectively, including operations, governance, compliance, legal teams and Innovate UK's domain teams


• Creation of governance for management of Innovate UK Business Growth scaleup support Support the management of project budgets and financial due diligence; gaining sign off and potentially stage gate processes with relevant stakeholders


• Collation of insights and generation of relevant reports to enable progress of service delivery and engagement to be tracked centrally, working closely with the Innovate UK Business Growth Monitoring & Insight Managers, Impact & Performance Manager and Data Analysts


• Delivery of process improvements delivering resource efficiencies within Innovate UK Business Growth


• Deputise for Innovate UK Business Growth Innovation Leads


• Provide secretariat to related meetings as required


• Support ad-hoc project work as directed by the Innovate UK Business Growth Senior Management Team
  
  Essential


• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or relevant equivalent experience


Experience

Essential

• Considerable experience of managing or playing a key role in delivering products and services achieving impact o A clear-track record of working within the constraints of time, cost and quality


• Clear experience of achieving results through influencing skills rather than direct control


Desirable

• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders and competing demands where there is a high degree of ambiguity in the boundaries between them


• Familiar with the UK innovation scaleup ecosystem(s), barriers, drivers and opportunities and roles of key public sector players


Skills:

• A self-motivated individual with a proven portfolio coordination and management track record


• Ability and experience of working without close direction to overcome challenges in order to deliver against tight, inflexible deadlines whilst maintaining high standards


• A confident, articulate and resilient individual with a pro-active approach and the ability to remain calm under pressure


• Ability to assimilate new, complex financial, business or technical information quickly and explain in non-technical terms key aspects of any given topic


• Persuasive and personable with developed negotiating, written and verbal communication skills. The ability to quickly build rapport with colleagues and the capacity to influence colleagues
  
  BIC Innovation is a delivery partner within an Innovate UK led consortium that has been delivering innovation, growth, and internationalisation services since 2015.


Innovate UK Business Growth is a key part of the UK innovation agency's investment in the innovative businesses that drive economic growth. It complements Innovate UK project funding with intensive, specialist-led support for such ambitious businesses.

To support this initiative BIC Innovation is seeking a Product Specialist for the Scale-Up offer under a fixed term contract of employment for a period of 18months., The role will be home based reporting into one of our offices in Bridgend or Menai Science Park on Anglesey. There will be a requirement for regular travel across the UK as required.

As the Product Specialist - Scale-up, you'll be employed by a flexible and supportive employer that fosters a work-life balance culture and you will also benefit from:

• Working 37.5 hours per week within Monday to Friday


• Salary in the region of £40,000 to £47,500, with the level based on experience


• 25 days starting annual leave plus bank holidays. Additional service days available with up to 30 days annual leave


• Life assurance x 2 salary


• Employee Assistant Programme with Welsh Hospitals


• Wellbeing Employer


• An opportunity to apply for sabbatical leave


• An organisational culture that promotes work-life balance


• Option to join our employee share-ownership scheme