Assistant Business Development Manager

Inner London location £34,463-£41,478

Outer London location £32,469- £39,532

National location £30,473- £37,215

UKHSA's mission is to make the nation health secure. We provide strategic leadership and vision for protecting and improving the nation's health, by preventing, detecting and mitigating eternal threats to health. Our ambition is to lead health responses nationally, and enable locally, in partnership with local authorities, the NHS, academia, industry and others. We will achieve this through the application of research, knowledge and skills. As an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care, UKHSA is a distinct delivery organization with operational autonomy to advise and support government, local authorities and the NHS in a professionally independent manner.

This role sits within UKHSA's award-winning Commercial Directorate, which played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Truly dynamic, our teams operate at significant pace in a commercially complex environment to procure a diverse range of goods and services in a highly competitive global market.?

UKHSA's Commercial teams continue to play a central role in priority activity, supporting responses to health threats as they occur, and ensuring enduring, resilient scientific and technical capabilities that secure the UK in the strongest position to protect the public from future threats to health.

About the team:

The Business Development Department supports achievement of UKHSA's goals by helping win external funding for research, and commercialising services created through the agency's wide-ranging scientific and public health expertise. In particular the department manages and exploits the agency's strong Intellectual Property portfolio, realising a financial return on the investment of public funds to generate high quality public health interventions and assets, and reducing the cost to the government of cutting-edge public health capabilities.

Business Development must constantly adapt to meet the changing needs of the organisation and, in particular, continually seeks to strengthen its skills base in the spectrum of capabilities represented by UKHSA. The team aligns with Department of Health and Social Care and HM Treasury commercial policies related to managing public money and knowledge asset management, thus ensuring the organisation meets its obligations under the current legislation and case law. The team also coordinates the response to external audits and external enquiries related to income generation fulfilling statutory requirements such as freedom of information requests.

Location

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) operates a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of the following UKHSA's locations - Porton Down, Colindale or Chilton. For certain roles, some additional flexibility may be possible, which will be agreed upon with the hiring manager based on individual requirements and business needs.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.

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