Awareness & Advisory Manager (Cost & Pricing)

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UCL is one of the UK’s leading universities, a world-class multidisciplinary research and teaching institution. With over 29 Nobel Prize winners and a legacy of pioneering innovation, UCL is dedicated to tackling global challenges and fostering academic excellence. Our dynamic community is at the forefront of research and innovation, creating impactful solutions to complex global problems.

Business Innovation

UCL Innovation & Enterprise is a group of specialist teams working with students and staff to foster innovation and enterprise, create links with the outside world, and accelerate UCL’s innovation and impact. Business & Innovation Partnerships (BIP) focuses on engaging with industrial partners, government entities, external organizations, and stakeholders, linking them with UCL’s community and experts. The work of UCL Innovation & Enterprise is central to UCL’s mission to change the world for the better and plays a vital role in addressing global challenges.

Research Innovation

Research & Innovation Services (RIS) provides dedicated, specialist support throughout the research and innovation lifecycle, helping to sustain and advance UCL’s position as a world-class, research-led university. The team’s remit covers awards, contracts, compliance and assurance, planning, insight, and improvement, ensuring that UCL’s research and innovation activities are conducted to the highest standards and have maximum impact.

About the role

We seek a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our team as the Costing and Pricing Awareness and Advisory Manager. This role involves developing and delivering training programs and an advisory service to embed new costing and pricing practices for industrial collaborations across UCL’s faculties. The successful candidate will identify advisory needs, and provide support and training on negotiations.

The successful candidate will work with stakeholders across UCL’s faculties, including the TRO, Life and Medical Sciences, Brain Sciences, and Population & Health Sciences, as well as the wider Innovation & Enterprise team, Deans, Vice Deans of Enterprise, Faculty Managers, Operational leads, and PIs. They need to be great communicators who can manage internal and external stakeholders.

The interviews will take place on the week commencing 22 July 2024.

For any queries about the role or the application process please contact Passant Khalifa, Senior Recruiter -

About you

The successful post holder will network and liaise to promote new costing and pricing principles, outlining their implementation context in industry-funded programs.

They will also facilitate the embedding of principles across departments and faculties by working with responsible individuals to clarify requirements and decision-making processes. Additionally, they will promote understanding of how UCL’s costing and pricing principles enable equitable partnerships with industry funders.

As well as encouraging good practices in negotiations with industrial partners.

To learn more about the role please see attached JD and person specification.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits, please visit our UCL benefits and rewards page.

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