Commercialisation Programme Analyst

The Faraday Institution is the UK's independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis and early-stage commercialisation. It brings together research scientists and industry partners to work on large projects with commercial potential that will reduce battery cost, weight, and volume; improve performance and reliability; and develop whole-life strategies including recycling and reuse. The organisation manages large research programmes across 25 universities and spanning a network of 500+ researchers and 140+ industry partners across the UK.

The Role

Working within the Faraday Institution's Commercialisation team with links to the Research Programme team and the Technology Transfer team, this role will support:

• the commercial analysis and early stages of commercialisation of the inventions and opportunities arising from the FI's funded research, and
• the delivery of the Faraday Institution's application targeted Transformational Challenges that seek to maximise economic impact in new markets for battery energy storage.

The role will report to the Commercialisation Director and will work closely with Commercialisation Principals, Technology Transfer Principal and Research Programme Managers as well as other members of The Faraday Institution team and wider community. The role will include developing working relationships with academia, industry and investors.

Objectives and responsibilities of the role:

• Commercialisation analysis of Faraday Institution funded research projects, enabling the Faraday Institution to prioritise and deliver world class early-stage commercialisation of electrochemical energy storage inventions and opportunities with the potential to be translated and scaled up by industry to deliver economic and environmental benefits. This would include working with Faraday Institution's TSCAN methodology.
• Supporting market analysis and techno economic modelling for batteries in applications including automotive, aerospace, defence and grid energy storage.
• Supporting the delivery of the Faraday Institution's Transformational Challenges: Ultrastore and HighPerCell. Co-ordinating the monitoring of KPI's, working with stakeholders across the Challenges to ensure data is captured and updated.
• Facilitating future research competitive calls for Transformational Challenges.
• Working with our operations team to, schedule and co-ordinate review processes, collating and administration of feedback processes.
• Support continual improvement of the programme management process by suggesting improvements to current processes and implementing for greater efficiency.
• Build relationships with our community of researchers, project managers and co-ordinators

Skills and Experience:

• An appreciation of economics, commercialisation, social benefits, science and engineering of batteries and other forms of energy storage. At least a degree/MSc in a related technical subject.
• Experience of delivery, lean/agile projects and appropriate targets with a focus on delivering improvements with minimum paperwork/ bureaucracy.
• Microsoft Office Suite, Project Management tools, experience in data visualisation
• Strong planning, analytical and communication skills.
• Experience with engaging (or at a minimum the ability to engage) with relevant sectors including academia, industry, investors and national facilities.

Personal Attributes:

• Proactive, inquisitive, goal and delivery based mind-set; desire to learn and develop.
• Energetic and able to balance short and long-term objectives.
• Engaging behaviour and an understanding of how to engage with a range of stakeholders with different and complex needs including industry, investors, academics, engineers and Government.
• Perseverance and sensitivity to deliver new, more commercially influenced ways of working in research environments.
• The ability to build community, influence and negotiate with others.
• Passion for developing and enabling UK economic impact in energy storage.

The Faraday Institution are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community and to being an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

• Location: Blended working from home and based at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, near Oxford, UK, with UK travel required to support research project meetings and possible international.
• Salary: £40k-£55k (depending on skills and experience)