Commercialisation Manager (Health and Life Sciences

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more. Find out more about our benefits (opens in a new window) and join us to become part of something special.

RPI supports University, Faculty and School priorities for research and innovation: income generation, research excellence, PGR experience, partnership development and knowledge exchange leading to income, impact and commercialisation of IP. Our focus is on delivering professional, value-add advice and support to the academic community. We are a well-connected team which understands the priorities of the organisation and our external stakeholders and customers and the external environment in which we operate.

Team members collaborate, reflect, develop their skills and have a risk-appropriate mindset of continuous improvement to our processes, policy and approach.

You will be an essential part of delivering our Commercialisation Journey, a high-quality programme designed to empower researchers to explore the commercial potential of their work and potentially create spin-out companies, intellectual property licences or social enterprises.

You will be key to the University's strategy, contributing to job creation, impactful research, and regional economic growth. You will provide comprehensive support to innovators through dedicated one-on-one guidance and co-delivery of our training programs. You will support innovators to access funding, mentorship and valuable market research resources on their journey from idea generation to launching their commercial ventures. You will support commercial negotiations with third parties relating to intellectual property licences and will on occasion lead these.

Our dedicated team has a range of technical and commercial experiences and the team collaborates to ensure work is distributed equitably.

You will be supported by the commercialisation team to develop your skills in technical assessment, IP-landscaping, corporate finance and many other areas.

• Provide guidance, training, coaching & mentorship to innovators embarking on the Commercialisation Journey.
• Deliver Commercialisation Journey training to individual teams and cohorts. Maintain and develop training materials in collaboration with other team members.
• Develop and utilise commercial and technical knowledge to support innovators to translate their research discoveries into value propositions with market fit.
• Encourage innovators to undertake high quality market research and discovery and to critically assess their ideas.
• Support commercial negotiations relating to IP-licences, investment terms and shareholder rights while drawing on the experience of internal and external professional services.
• Be accountable for maintaining accurate records in internal databases and systems for the purposes of project management and annual reporting.
• Support innovators to secure internal and external funding and monitor deployment of internal funding.
• Complete project due diligence with respect to IP-ownership, historic funding, third party rights and regulatory compliance under the approval/guidance of senior staff.
• Proactively identify and recommend potential improvements to the Commercialisation Journey and collaborate with the commercialisation team to create new content.
• Support innovators through external pre-accelerator and accelerator programmes.
• Promote and market The Commercialisation Journey as a mechanism for delivering impact from academic research to continue to build a culture of ambition and entrepreneurial motivation within the University.
• Support our partnership with Northern Gritstone by establishing and maintaining a strong relationship with investment directors and other staff.
• Carry out…