Do you want to be a key part of a successful and focused international team?
Do you have experience of working with growing businesses and supporting their international expansion aspirations?
Do you have experience of building mutually beneficial relationships with overseas partners?
If you’ve answered “yes” to these questions the role of Partnering & Innovation Adviser could be for you.
About the Role
You will be a business and partnering coach, mentor, critical friend and champion to a portfolio of innovative start up clients. You will support them on their journey to growing their business to enable further investment and take steps towards becoming a high growth business of the future. In addition, you will work with high growth clients to provide tailored support to encourage international collaboration and partnering that will help businesses enter new markets.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Connecting companies to the right complementary innovation and internationalisation services and other forms of support
- Account managing a portfolio of clients to engage in IUK Business Growth partnering services including the publication of profiles and their participation in international programmes and brokerage events
- Delivering meaningful and impactful Partnering Agreements (PAs) and Advisory Outcomes (ASs) to innovating growth capable SMEs
- Using holistic analysis tools, assessing and understanding the specific needs of clients and supporting them effectively
- Providing robust advice to a portfolio of innovative start up clients by establishing facts, weighing up pros and cons, examining consequences, and then delivering on the agreed action plan
About you
We are looking for someone with business experience within a growth business environment. In addition, you will have:
- active listening skills, with non-confrontational challenging of business assessment
- experience of international collaboration and partnering in global markets
- capability of being a combination of coach, mentor, critical friend and champion to start up clients
- ability to understand and communicate the key business issues affecting profitability and growth, along with the factors leading to success in commercialising innovative ideas
- ability to gain and hold the respect of business owners and senior staff in innovative growing businesses
- ability to work independently as well as part of a team, and use own initiative/self-motivation
What do we offer?
This is a full time, permanent position with an expectation of some UK and occasional European travel. While we operate in a remote first environment, you do need to live within easy commutable distance from our head office in Hatfield, or elsewhere as required, where we meet as a team and to collaborate with others across the business.
- We are more interested in finding the right person but we are loosely looking in the region of £37,870 – £48,551pa FTE
- Car allowance
- Broadband allowance
- Generous, up to 10.5% non-contributory pension scheme
- Ill-health income protection
- Life assurance (Death in Service)
- 26 days holiday (rising to 28 after 2 years’ service, pro rata for part time)
- Flexible and supportive working culture including access to mental health first aiders
- Wellbeing services for employees including access to discounts, employee assistance programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Doctorline and more
- Modern, open space and technology enabled working environment
- Flexible benefits including holiday-buy scheme, eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccination, Cyclescheme.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and value diversity in our workforce. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
About us
We are one of the UK’s foremost business support organisations and for over 25 years, we have provided business advisory services to more than 500,000 small to medium sized businesses on behalf of Government and Private sector organisations. As part of our expert team, you can expect to be empowered to be the best you can and share our company values of Openness (I am keen and willing to engage), Inspiration (I want to be the best that I can be), Conviction (We win, or lose, together) and Accountability (I will take responsibility and ownership). As a business we recognise that giving a superior service to our clients depends on making the most of our people and we aim to give our teams challenging opportunities, recognition for achievement, job enrichment and the maximum flexibility we can.
The fine print
- Please note we are not a Home Office visa sponsorship licence holder and therefore you must be currently eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this role.
- Please read our recruitment privacy notice available on Exemplas website for information about how we process your personal data.