TheScottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre in Stirling yesterday announced two new
opportunities:
DIRECTOR
OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Competitive
salary and benefits.
DIRECTOR
OF PROGRAMMES
Salary
range £47,328 - £58,172.
The
Company
The Scottish
Aquaculture Innovation Centre is one of 8 Innovation Centres established by the
Scottish Government in the past 18 months. Based at the University of Stirling,
the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre is tasked with promoting and funding
innovation. We support Scottish companies’ success at home and abroad, through
knowledge exchange projects, solutions to aquaculture’s most pressing problems
and skills development. The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre team reports
to an industry led board.
Our areas of
interest include fish and shellfish health and welfare; feeding, quality and
nutrition; breeding and stock improvement; and engineering. In all these areas,
we bring together businesses and researchers, transforming their relationship
and galvanising collaboration.
The aim of
our work is commercial success, economic growth and culture change across the
industrial and academic sectors. Both these new roles offer major opportunities
to contribute personally to transformation in the sector.
DIRECTOR OF
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
The deputy to
the CEO, the newly established Director of Business Development will
proactively build strategic partnerships and relationships, generate new leads
for business, identify commercially relevant opportunities for business
engagement and develop and execute the Innovation Centre’s strategy with a
long-term plan for the industry’s revenue growth and impact. The role holder
will be a key business driver to deliver the KPIs in the Innovation Centre’s
Business Plan.
They will
provide a high level of marketing and customer expertise to develop and
maintain collaborative, positive relationships with all potential business
partners, stakeholders and customers in the global aquaculture sector, and will
also have overall responsibility to the CEO for communications, marketing and
skills development.
They must set
strategy, establish approaches, seek opportunities, develop ideas, facilitate
agreement and negotiate a way forward, and then follow through with action.
They must seek to understand clients’ needs and concerns, address their issues,
maintain their trust and manage expectations. They will be expected
to represent
the Innovation Centre at large international conferences and seminars, set up
and host their own events and forums, and actively promote the aims of the
Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre.
In addition,
this role will set up and grow the business development arm of the Innovation
Centre, at present planned as 2 staff. The role holder will manage up to four
direct reports, including the Head of Skills Development and Head of Marketing
and Communications posts, once in place.
The role
holder will deputise for the CEO with the board, in external meetings,
conferences etc. They will ultimately lead and manage the Innovation Centre’s
Operations Team over 2 locations. The role holder will act as the number 2 role
within the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre and as such will lead by
example coaching staff to maximise team performance.
The
postholder will be degree-qualified (at least a 2:1) and ideally hold a
postgraduate qualification in business, management or a relevant field. They
will have a minimum of 5 years senior management experience leading teams to
deliver against business KPIs. They will also demonstrate a strong track record
of outward focus in meeting customer and client need.
DIRECTOR OF
PROGRAMMES
A senior
position within the newly established Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre
(SAIC), the Director of Programmes will have a mixture of aquaculture industry
and research experience, as well as advanced project and people management
skills.
The new role
will require the role holder to set up contractual procedures and compliant
processes to identify and award research grants that positively impact the
Innovation Centre’s business objectives. Once established, they will evaluate,
monitor and encourage the progress of research projects while managing a team
of Research Managers. They will present funding and research progress to the
Innovation Centre’s Board on a regular basis. They will also support access by
Scottish research bodies and companies to UK and European grant funding
programmes such as are delivered by InnovateUK, the BBSRC and NERC, Horizon
2020 and the Food for the Future 2016 programme.
The role will
involve travelling, primarily in the UK and occasionally to Brussels,
presenting findings to very senior and influential groups of people, and
analysing new applications to ensure the most relevant projects are funded in a
cost effective and timely manner. The post holder will need to establish
personal credibility with senior leaders across Scotland’s academic and
research base, and with industry.
The Director
of Programmes will be at least PhD qualified in a subject relevant to
aquaculture with a minimum of 5 years project and people management experience.
On a personal level they will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, analytical,
detail driven and persuasive.
This role
reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Aquaculture
Innovation Centre and is based in the Innovation Centre’s office in Scion
House, part of Stirling Innovation Park beside the University of Stirling
campus.
APPLICATIONS
To apply
please send your CV including a covering letter describing how you would help
the Innovation Centre deliver its 5 year Business Plan to Anne Marie Picken at ampicken@aol.com
by 12/12/14.
Interviews
are expected to take place in Stirling the week commencing 15th January 2015.
For further
information about these exciting posts, please contact ampicken@aol.com
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