Senior Technology Transfer Manager

Full Job Description

Join us as a Senior Technology Transfer Manager at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). If you're passionate about driving innovation and improving healthcare outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. We work in partnership with the NHS, universities, local government, other research funders, patients, and the public. The NIHR funds, enables, and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth.

Job Description

The NIHR Intellectual Property Unit provides the Department of Health and Social Care with expert advice and support on all NIHR related intellectual property, contractual and commercial issues.

The Senior Technology Transfer Manager will work across the NIHR portfolio to ensure that NIHR funded intellectual property is identified, managed and translated by researchers to produce impactful outcomes that improve the quality, capacity and capability of health care in the UK and overseas.

A key part of the role will be resolving complex due diligence, monitoring and commercialisation issues that require detailed analysis of technical, contractual, stakeholder and commercial factors. The NIHR is a complex system so the successful candidate will need to be comfortable working in a dynamic network of other members of the IP Unit, colleagues throughout the NIHR system, research teams, IP management specialists in research organisations and commercial partners.

The Senior Technology Transfer Manager will also work on projects that will improve the NIHR’s IP management processes and its integration in to the wider UK health research funding ecosystem.

We are looking for individuals with experience of IP and commercial issues:

• Technology licensing and commercial negotiation
• Medical device and diagnostic development
• Artificial Intelligence/”big data”
• Overseas development funding, including “global health” initiatives

The tasks associated with this role include:

• Working with the Head of IP and Commercial and other members of the IP Unit
• Managing a portfolio of commercialisation cases on behalf of DHSC
• Implementation of robust contractual terms for funding health research
• Co-ordinating legal advice for DHSC on all issues relating to research funding

Qualifications & Experience

• Expert knowledge of best practice in intellectual property management
• A degree in a relevant subject (a relevant professional qualification would be desirable)
• Detailed knowledge of life science research
• Knowledge of the regulatory framework for intellectual property management
• An ability to analyse complex commercialisation deals
• Effective negotiation skills and an understanding of technology transfer licensing

Salary & Benefits

£54,500 to £57,500 PA

Bonus - subject to company performance

25 days annual leave, plus public holidays (UK)

Enhanced contributory pension scheme

Life Insurance

Benenden Healthcare

Season Ticket Loan

Laptop, IT equipment and remote IT support

NB: This is an office-based, hybrid role with an expectation for all employees to attend our offices a minimum of 4 days a month, usually worked as 1 day per week, and may increase, subject to team requirements.

To Apply

If you are interested in working with us and feel you have the appropriate background and skills, please apply with your CV, (with the cover letter attached in the same document), outlining your suitability for the role and highlighting your experience against the required criteria.

If you wish to make an informal enquiry about this post, please contact: