Senior Manager Development; m​/f​/d

The New Opportunities Development Team scouts opportunities for EIT Health to engage in collaborative project proposals, diversifying the organisation’s portfolio of grant-funded projects. The Team leads efforts to build strong proposals and bids across a variety of funding instruments, ensuring opportunities are pursued, structured and developed from early ideas into concrete concepts with a high chance of award by the relevant funding bodies.

EIT Health delivers a portfolio of collaborative projects, supported by diversity of funding sources. To ensure a steady pipeline of new opportunities EIT Health is recruiting a Senior Manager, New Opportunities Development. In this role, you will work closely with colleagues in the New Opportunities Development Unit under the Director of Community and Stakeholders Engagement and transversally with relevant business units at EIT Health that have potential to engage in EU funded projects.

This role is not about inventing or delivering the underlying innovation itself, but about designing the structures, partnerships and funding pathways that allow others' innovations to be developed, tested and scaled through European collaborative projects. You will scout and prioritise funding opportunities (EU or national grants, philanthropic foundations, tenders), design new project applications, manage the end-to-end proposal development process, ensuring alignment with business needs target financing schemes.

If you have a track record of orchestrating securing EU funded projects, as a consortium architect or proposed lead, experience in raising philanthropic funding, and the drive to turn bold ideas into concrete implementation plans, we want to hear from you.

• Proactively scout for funding opportunities (European, national, private philanthropic) in collaboration with the relevant internal delivery and support teams and EIT Health’s ecosystem engagement staff.
• Support the prioritisation of EIT Health’s and its partners’ engagement in different opportunities, keeping a consolidated map of the funding pipeline and facilitating the relevant internal endorsement and approval processes for participation in grant applications.
• Lead and coordinate proposal development with different functions in the organisation, including project conceptualisation, proposal writing, budget preparation and consortium partner engagement.
• Act as the connective layer between innovators, funders and implementing teams, ensuring ideas are translated into fundable, well-structured project frameworks.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders (such as higher education institutions, research agencies, small and large companies, policy bodies, network organisations, etc.) to build collaborative consortia for joint proposals and bids, including leading on negotiations and alignment on roles, responsibilities and resources.
• Plan the transfer of awarded project proposals to the implementing units, including via administrative and contracting support.
• Maintain repositories, logs and dashboards of the opportunities pipeline and raise internal visibility of proposals under development.
• Collaborate closely with all business units at EIT Health to secure buy-in in proposals in the pipeline (asset management, profit growth, delivery, communications, stakeholder engagement, operations and finance functions) within the wider team and the overarching EIT Health organisation.
• Support post-project review, for internal learning.

• Master's degree or higher in business administration, innovation management, life sciences, engineering, or a related field, or substantial relevant experience.
• Outstanding stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across multidisciplinary and multinational teams and engage individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and interests through strong interpersonal skills , persua sion and negotiation aptitude.
• Deep understanding of what funding agencies and evaluators look for, including how to align proposal narratives, budgets and work plans with funder priorities and evaluation criteria. Proven ability to act as an…