Salary range: £
£52,560 - £59,135
Term: Fixed (3 years)
FTE: 1.0 (35 hours/week)
Closing date: Friday 7 August 2020
The Continuous Manufacturing
and Advanced Crystallisation Hub (CMAC; www.cmac.ac.uk) is a world-class centre of excellence for
advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing research and training. As an EPSRC
Future Manufacturing Research Hub, led by the University of Strathclyde we
work in close collaboration with a number of spokes at leading UK academic
institutions (Bath, Cambridge, Imperial College, Leeds, Loughborough,
Sheffield) and linking with international centres in the US, Europe and Far
East.
Working in
partnership with industry, CMAC’s purpose is to transform the development and
manufacture of medicines through advanced design and manufacturing technologies
including the development of digital twins and microfactories. CMAC’s demand
led vision has been developed through close collaboration with our Tier 1
industry partners (GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Bayer, Takeda,
Lilly, Pfizer, Roche) and a wide range of technology companies. Building on
significant capital investments CMAC has established the National Facility
team to broaden our ability to support and engage a wide user community within
the £90M Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC) at Strathclyde.
As CMAC Funding Manager, you will be responsible for the development of proposals and grant
applications for CMAC projects where external funding and investment is
sought; working with relevant stakeholders to identify relevant opportunities
and sources of investment; provide expert advice in the development of the longer-term
sustainability plan, particularly with regard to InnovateUK, EPSRC and EU
investment; have a lead role in disseminating funding intelligence; provide expert
advice on the preparation and costing of collaborative research bids;
scrutinise grant agreements, support electronic submissions and liaise with
external funding bodies and other collaborators.
As part of CMAC’s management team you will lead the CMAC
Funding Committee working with partners to develop collaborative proposals
that will grow the activities across the CMAC Hub and spokes, increase grant
income, leveraging the EPSRC Hub award, create new opportunities for impact
from our research and contribute to delivery of CMAC business plan. You will
also be required to build engagement with SMEs across the Scottish Central
Belt in order to establish networks and identify possible collaborations for
translation activities.
It is envisaged that the post-holder will work with 5-10
major external proposals per annum. Knowledge of the UK manufacturing research
and innovation funding landscape is crucial as will be relevant experience of
the pharmaceutical sector whether from academic, industry, project management,
research or knowledge exchange administration as well as higher education
experience in pre-competitive collaboration technology application projects,
the UK funding landscape and working with academics, innovation centres,
government, technology companies, CMOs and large pharmaceutical companies. An
understanding of and experience of working on pharmaceutical manufacturing
research and associated innovation challenges is essential.
Please note this is a 3 year fixed term appointment.
Informal
enquiries about the post can be directed to Andrea Johnston, CMAC Hub Programme Manager (andrea.johnston@strath.ac.uk).
It is anticipated that formal interviews for this post will likely
be held by mid-August 2020.
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