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As the Business Development Manager Space and Astronomy (S&A) you will engage with early partnering conversations to clarify and align stakeholder goals, identify scaling opportunities, and build strong, effective relationships. You will support major impact and revenue initiatives within the Research Unit, while also contributing to cross-organisational opportunities developed through the broader research portfolio. Working closely with Partnerships and Business Development (P&BD) colleagues and Enterprise Units, the position helps coordinate and prioritise projects to ensure consistent, strategic approaches that strengthen CSIRO’s overall opportunity pipeline.
Job Responsibility:
Actively contribute to influence and implement a Partnerships and Business Development (P&BD) strategy that drives impactful innovation and science
Through confident guidance, articulate the value of early engagement with partners to optimise the scope, scale, business model, and impact of research partnerships up to the level of ecosystem coalitions, in a way that crosses CSIRO boundaries and empowers the P&BD team and wider organisation
Act at the program on a page level, partner with researchers across boundaries to grow the scale of CSIRO’s partnering and business development activities including research partnerships with universities, industry and government up to enterprise level coalitions
Represent CSIRO in engagements with relevant stakeholders and engage strategically with priority industry and government relationships
Working collaboratively with Research and Enterprise Unit colleagues, ensure optimised business and commercial outcomes are negotiated and managed for all relationships, including strategic partnerships and stakeholder engagement
Undertake activities that successfully support project ideation, development and execution
Implement programs and initiatives to improve how CSIRO engages with relevant stakeholders, industry, universities, and the broader innovation community
Develop and implement business development plans and partnerships that align with CSIRO short-term requirements and long-term strategy to drive business growth and research impact
Requirements:
Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience in a relevant science area relevant to the Domain, and/ or with business and commercial qualifications
Demonstrated business acumen, including in the functioning of publicly funded research organisations, scaling, business modelling, and negotiating successful multi-stakeholder partnerships with industry, government, and other research institutions, how industry and/or governments (large and small) adopt technology, and technology commercialisation pathways including licensing and venture creation
A demonstrated history of professional and respectful behaviours and attitudes aligned to CSIRO values in a complex working environment with both internal and external clients/partners and colleagues that encourages new ideas, builds trust and supports the development of beneficial outcomes
Strong relationship management skills and the demonstrated ability to use complex influencing strategies, to advise and support colleagues, internal & external stakeholders to achieve CSIRO’s strategic objectives
Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, including experience working with a broad range of stakeholders, and science, commercial or engineering staff and a proven ability to work with and influence outcomes across all levels in an organisation
A growth mindset, proven ability to anticipate, manage and develop appropriate solutions to complex problems, effectively manage ambiguity and readily adapt to changing circumstances
Proven ability to develop, advance and maintain and client/partner leads to achieve specified outcomes to achieve significant opportunities in partnership with Research Units
Demonstrated experience in successful project management, including planning, engagement, monitoring and reporting to meet or exceed specified outcomes and timeframes