Co-Director of Enterprise (Corporate Partnerships)

Location: South Kensington and White City Campus 

Salary: Minimum starting salary of £77,323 per annum 

Imperial College London is seeking a Co-Director of Enterprise (Corporate Partnerships) to join our Enterprise Division. This is a full-time, permanent position based in London, with a flexible work location framework.

At Imperial College, we value collaborative research that combines real-world business challenges with academic curiosity and research rigour. Our Enterprise Division works with academic researchers to translate their work into commercial opportunities and increase impact from their research.

The Co-Director of Enterprise (Corporate Partnerships) will focus on Corporate Partnerships, working closely with the Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), the Co-Director of Enterprise (Commercialisation), and the Research and Enterprise Operating Officer to drive the strategic direction of the division cohesively. 

• Create and implement a 5-year Corporate Partnership strategy.
• Ensure all aspects of corporate partner relationships are responsive and well managed.
• Lead, motivate and manage the Corporate Partnership team.
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with staff throughout Imperial and with external corporate partners.
• Be responsible for meeting key business development targets on time and on budget.

Full information on duties, responsibilities and criteria for the post can be found in the attached Job Description.

• Educated to degree level.
• Substantial experience of client engagement at Director-level in large, technology-led, corporations.
• Substantial commercial and operational leadership experience.
• An understanding of the academic environment, preferably gained through previous experience of working within a Higher Education Institution.
• Strong relationship and communication skills to influence and effect change with internal and external senior stakeholders.

Please see our Further Particulars for more information about the College and the benefits available to staff.

For informal discussions about the post, please contact, Emily Roche, Executive Officer to the Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), Email: e.roche@imperial.ac.uk

For information about the application process, please contact Maria Monteiro, Senior Appointments Manager, Email: m.monteiro@imperial.ac.uk Telephone: 0207 594 5498

Closing Date: 9 August 2024 (23:59 Hours BST)

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research/

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

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