Senior Innovation Consultant

Building on the continued growth and success of the business, we are looking for an Innovation and Grant Writing Consultant to join our experienced consultancy team in the UK.
PNO Consultants Limited are the UK operation of the PNO Group Europes largest innovation and funding consultancy. Our team of consultants have extensive experience of all principal national and European funding programmes to support start-ups, established SMEs, large enterprises and universities across all research disciplines and sectors (including ICT, energy, environment, transport, chemistry, biotechnology and health). The aim is to identify and secure grant funding for the development of innovative products, processes and services, which address key societal, environmental and economic challenges.Your mission (What are you going to do)Operating across all functions of PNOs core consultancy business, this is a client facing role that will involve:

• Working with clients to qualify their ideas for alignment to available UK national and European funding programmes and the proactive scanning of new grant opportunities for strategic projects. This will extend across a range of industry sectors including ICT, energy, environment, transport, chemistry, biotechnology and health, and depending on the background of the successful candidate, there will be opportunity to specialise in a particular technology domain.
• Once an opportunity for funding has been identified, conduct primary research including market analysis and literature/patent searches to qualify the competitive landscape and true innovation of a particular idea.
• Working directly with the client to prepare high quality grant applications. This will include innovation project scoping, the compilation of information required for the submission, and writing of the grant proposal covering all aspects of information required by a grantor body from the analysis of the business and market opportunity available, the advancement beyond current technologies offered, the innovation, route to market strategy and impact.
• Working with the client to prepare documents for the grant agreement, reports and claims to comply with the Grantor body requirements.
• The ideal candidate will have the desire to develop their own client base within the UK. This could include attending industry events to promote PNOs services through to the development of relationships with multipliers such as Venture Capital companies, tech incubators and accelerators, IP attorneys and industry networks.

Your profile (About you)

• Scientific university degree, Masters and/or PhD.
• Knowledge of the innovation funding landscape with recent experience of Innovate UK and/or Horizon Europe is essential (i.e. 1-2 years experience in strategic consultancy or technology transfer role).
• Attributes: flexible team player, creative, hands-on, entrepreneurial, ambitious, go-getter, professional communicator, drive and energy, and the ability to work effectively under pressure towards deadlines.
• English written and oral skills with a proven ability to write professional technical documents with clarity, efficiency, and flair, whether that be in the form of reports or as part of a dissertation, is critical.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Affinity and preferably experience with commercial account management and networking skills would be a plus.
• Available to travel within the UK and Europe on occasions would be a plus.

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