Business & Impact Manager

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

The Role
Addressing real industry challenges with tailored cutting edge Edge AI solutions, this is not just a concept, but the vision behind the collaborative strategic initiative that is the National Edge AI Hub.

Your role as Business and Impact Manager will lead on fostering and maintaining long term industry and sector relationships. You will both manage and expand the portfolio of strategic commercial contacts and service as their primary liaison in order to execute partnership initiatives.

To be successful in this role you should have demonstrable experience of stakeholder management and excellent networking skills within technology sector. You should be resilient with commercial aptitude for success with outstanding interpersonal skills and influencing qualities. You will need to present with passion the clear vision the drive behind the Hub and take a key role interfacing both internally and externally in order to support the initiatives of the project. You should be confident in delivering to timescales, working within set objectives while managing workload ensuring pace with an outcome focused approach. This collaborative project aims to support a robust and interconnected AI vision linking researchers, innovators and practitioners. This is both an exciting and career developing opportunity, that requires an enthusiastic approach to enhancing your own development with opportunity to undertake training, along with learning new skills.

A degree of flexibility and the ability to travel for the role, both nationally and internationally (including some evening, weekend, and multiple day trips) will be essential. This will be balanced through the University's flexible working arrangements and practices.

If you think this might be a good fit for you, we'd love to hear from you!

For an informal chat about the role, please get in touch with Karen Allenby, Head of Partnerships (karen.allenby@newcastle.ac.uk) and Savvas Papagiannidis, Research Impact Director for the National Edge AI Hub (savvas.papagiannidis@newcastle.ac.uk).

This is a fixed-term position for 12 months, expected start date Jan 2025.

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