Innovation Project Manager - Innovation Unit

Ref.: 24-101_MS_MS

About the unit

The Innovation Unit is a key component of the Business Development and Innovation Area at IDIBELL. This area is dedicated to maximizing the potential of innovative projects emerging from IDIBELL by fostering collaborations between translational research and industry.

The Unit’s primary responsibilities include identifying and promoting scientific and innovative projects across the campus, managing research outcomes through licensing and patents, and cultivating an innovative culture. Additionally, it is tasked with transferring IDIBELL's knowledge to ensure that research results are effectively valorized and translated into real-world applications.

About the role

We are currently seeking a passionate Innovation Manager to support the knowledge and technology transfer process of groundbreaking projects on campus. This role focuses on managing high-potential research projects, guiding them from concept to market, and ensuring they address critical public health needs through public-private collaborations and entrepreneurship. As part of our Business Development and Innovation Area, you will play a pivotal role in translating new knowledge into practical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the evaluation of innovative projects, considering scientific, technical, and market perspectives
• Engage with research groups across the campus to identify and cultivate innovative projects
• Organize, manage, and prioritize projects and patents within the Innovation Unit
• Assess and establish effective technology transfer channels
• Develop roadmaps, provide guidance, and support innovation projects to enhance their market value
• Create compelling commercial arguments for projects
• Develop business cases to demonstrate the viability of projects
• Draft and negotiate collaborative agreements
• Prepare and submit competitive calls for innovation projects
• Maintain regular contact with principal investigators and their teams, offering ongoing support
• Attend innovation conferences and contribute to the technology transfer strategy
• Promote the institution’s innovation portfolio, and network with companies and potential partners

Job requirements

Professional experience

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in a similar role
• Experience in biotechnology or biomedical research fields

Education and training

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences
• Ph.D. in a relevant Life Sciences discipline

Technical & soft skills

• Strong customer and results orientation
• Proactivity, initiative, and a drive for continuous improvement
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• In-depth knowledge and expertise in biotechnology or biomedical research
• Proficiency in project management
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Excellent communication and organizational abilities, with a flexible and responsible approach to autonomous work
• Critical thinking skills
• Team-oriented mindset
• Ability to work independently
• Effective negotiation skills

Languages

• Good command of the English, Spanish, and Catalan languages

We will value, but not require

• Innovation training
• Knowledge or experience in intellectual property (IP) protection
• Previous experience in healthcare research and technology transfer
• Previous experience in innovation management
• Familiarity with intellectual property rights, patents, and market-driven databases
• Business development experience

What do we offer

•  No. of positions: 1
•  Estimated start date: 16/09/2024
•  Contract duration: Permanent linked to projects
•  Estimated annual gross salary: 30.000 €
•  You will be part of a multicultural team. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.
•  Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way.
•  Possibility to work some days in remote - Teleworking
•  26 working days of holiday per year
•  System of accumulated hours for employees, from 88 to 104 hours depending on the year (11 to 13 working days), to attend to personal matters.
•  Paid leave package
•  Benefits of constant training are offered
•  We offer and promote diverse and inclusive conditions. Applicants are made free from any discrimination. Specifically IDIBELL works to improve gender equality in all areas with the aim of achieving gender balance, but maintaining the most scrupulous respect to any choice at the level of gender identity. Please express yourself freely, safely and non-binarily, if that's the case.

Deadline: Please submit your application by 21/08/2024

Data protection notice

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Our institute

IDIBELL is a research center that integrates the biomedical research of the Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB), the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), and the University of Barcelona in the Bellvitge Campus (UB), and the Viladecans Hospital (HV). The research focuses of IDIBELL are cancer, neuroscience, translational medicine and regenerative medicine. Research, innovation and society are the pivots on which researchers work every day in order to improve the quality of life of citizens.

Observations

The 'HR Excellence in Research' award represents IDIBELL’s commitment to the implementation of Human Resources policies, which oversee the attracting and development of talent in an open, transparent, and based on personal merit, in alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment Researchers (Charter and Code).

IDIBELL is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the implementation of open, transparent and merit-based recruitment (OTMR).

This contract is financed by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, with file code PT20/00109, by virtue of a Resolution of the Directorate of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, O.A., M.P. of December 11, 2020, by which subsidies are granted for the Units of the ISCIII Platforms to support R+D+I in Biomedicine and Health Sciences of the Strategic Action in Health 2017-2020. (Co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. FEDER, a way of making Europe). 

This study has been funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the project PT23/00109. Co-funded by the European Union. We thank CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya for institutional support.