Project Manager XarSMART - Business Development Unit
REF: 24-177_MS_MS
About the research group
The Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) is a research center in biomedicine promoted by the Bellvitge University Hospital and the Viladecans Hospital, both from the Catalan Health Institute, the Catalan Institute of Oncology, University of Barcelona and L’Hospitalet de Llobregat city council. In 2017, the Center for Regenerative Medicine of Barcelona (CMR[B]), now part of IDIBELL, launched the Program for Advancing the Clinical Translation of Regenerative Medicine of Catalonia (P-CMR[C]) together with IDIBELL.
IDIBELL research is focused in cancer, neuroscience, translational medicine and regenerative medicine. Research, innovation and society are the axes on which researchers work every day with the goal of improving the quality of life of citizens. IDIBELL is located in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, south of Barcelona.
XarSMART is an initiative of the Catalan life and health sciences ecosystem that aims to enable the region to generate medical technologies and new companies, with the goal of increasing the transfer of high-level projects to the market.
XarSMART was established in 2023, to answer a question shared among the founding members: what else can we do to validate and accelerate the transfer of our researchers’ ideas? Led by the Business Development and Innovation Area at IDIBELL, with the support from a team of renowned advisors and an industry board, XarSMART aims to increase the market value of Personalized Precision Medicine, digital health, and data science projects of our members. It provides new tools for searching funds and for the valorization of ideas, promotes collaboration between different institutions and with the industry, contributes to the skills’ development of the network members and improves the translation of solutions to the National Health System.
IDIBELL is currently seeking a Project Manager for XarSMART who is passionate about innovation and seeks to provide value to researchers and the biomedical research sector. The role is particularly focused on business development activities, either for research projects and for the XarSMART tools, with the aim of consolidating the impact of our network in the Catalan biomedical research sector. This role involves managing cutting-edge research projects with significant potential for market transfer and bringing these ideas from concept to market, as well as coordinating the development and the dissemination and commercialization of specific tools for researchers and KTTs.
About the role
• Project Management for advanced projects: securing funding, budget control for projects, supporting researchers in the execution of activities, transfer to the market, contract management and negotiation.
• Support in providing services to researchers (market analysis, patentability analysis, reviewing the content of competitive grants, and others).
• Attracting new projects for the network.
• Attracting new research groups/institutions for the network.
• Developing consultation documents (guides, infographics, etc.).
• Support in preparing scientific justifications for the XarSMART Project: reports, budget tracking, and monitoring of indicators.
• Coordination of website and Intranet maintenance and optimization.
• Self-assessment kit (a questionnaire for researchers to evaluate the status of their project): updating content and promoting the tool to the community.
• Moodle eLearning platform: identifying new training opportunities and speakers, dissemination, and commercialization of the tool.
• Grant search platform: supporting development coordination, managing pilot tests, dissemination, and commercialization of the tool.
• Marketing Plan execution and monitoring, including event organization.
• Managing the XarSMART contact portfolio (researchers and entities).
Job requirements
Professional experience
- Previous experience in similar roles, minimum 1 year
- Customer and results orientation
- Proactivity, initiative, relational skills and restlessness of improvement
- Good communication abilities, both written and verbal
- Knowledge, skills and professional experience in the areas of Biotechnology or biomedical research
Education and training
- University Degree in life sciences
- Project management training will be a plus
- Knowledge of business development will be a plus
Technical & soft skills
- Project Management
- Good command of Microsoft Office
- Ability to work autonomously
- Communicative and organizing skills, flexible and responsible
- Critical Thinking
- Teamwork
- Negotiation
Languages
- Good command of the English language
- High level of Catalan/Spanish
We will value, but not required
- Previous experience in healthcare research and technology transfer
- Business development experience
- Previous experience in innovation management
What do we offer
- Estimated start date: 03/02/2025
- Contract duration: Permanent
- 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.
- 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 19/01/2025
Data protection notice
In compliance with the obligations established in the General Regulation of Data Protection (RGPD), which is the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, and the Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, it is reported that the Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), CIF G58863317, with address Av. Granvia de l'Hospitalet, 199-203, 08908, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, will process your personal data, as the controller, to apply for the position, maintain communication concerning the status of the candidature, to access the delivered CV; to compare that your data is in accordance with the offers announced by IDIBELL and to verify, where appropriate, that the information provided is accurate. You can find more information in our Privacy Policy at https://idibell.cat/en/privacy-policy-2/, request more information about the data processing carried out and exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion, opposition, portability, limitation of processing by sending a request at email: dataprotection@idibell.cat. If you consider that you have not obtained satisfaction in exercising your rights, you may submit a claim to Catalan Data Protection Authority.
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).
The project leading to this labour contract has received funding from AGAUR under the project code 2021 XARDI 00008
