Business Development Project Manager - Innovation Area

REF: 25-192_MS_GG

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.

The Business Development Unit is part of the Business Development and Innovation Area at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). The Business Development and Innovation Area is responsible for enhancing the value of innovative projects that are generated to IDIBELL to promote the establishment of translational research-industry collaborations.

The Business Development Unit is also in charge of enhancing and following up on private-public partnerships to identify new opportunities and research results that can potentially be valorised as innovation research projects.

This work offer is partially funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the project PT23/00109 (Co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. FEDER, a way of doing Europe). With the institutional support of CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya.

About the role

- Promotion of IDIBELL’s portfolio of services.
- Draft and negotiation of services agreements.
- Generation and follow up on private-public partnerships.
- Consolidation of business relations with external partners.
- Support in assistance and follow up of IDIBELL’s spin-offs and start-ups.
- Regular contact and support to principal investigators and their teams.
- Evaluation of projects from a scientific and market point of view.
- Draft competitive calls to present innovation projects.
- Management of the Innovation Management System of the Area.
- Execution of activities related to the promotion of the Business Development and Innovation Area of IDIBELL, both inside and outside the Campus.
- Provision of business-related services.
- Representation of the institution in national and international congresses and networking events.
- Dynamise and coordinate relations with agents, networks and companies both within and outside Catalonia.

Job requirements

Professional experience

· Previous experience in similar roles, minimum 2 years.
· Customer and results orientation.
· Proactivity, initiative, relational skills and restlessness of improvement.
· Good communication abilities, both written and verbal.

Education and training

· University Degree in life sciences 

Technical & soft skills

· Project Management.
· Good command of Microsoft Office.
· Communicative and organizing skills, flexible, with autonomous work and responsible.
· Critical Thinking.
· Teamwork.
· Autonomy.
· Negotiation.

Languages

· Good command of the English language

· Spanish
· Catalan

We will value, but not required

· Official Master degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration or related.
· Previous experience in healthcare research.
· Previous experience in innovation management.
· Previous experience in business development of scientific services.

What do we offer

• No. of positions: 1
• Estimated start date: 01/01/2026
• Contract duration: Permanent by project.
• Estimated annual gross salary: it is commensurate with qualifications and consistent with our pay ranges.
•  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 30/12/2025

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).

The project leading to this labour contract has received funding from the European Union's Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking under the grant agreement 101172825. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or e European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. We thank CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya for institutional support.