Experience

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  Hays accountancy & finance

  Sept 2007 - Dec 2008

  Recruitment consultant
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  University of cumbria

  Jan 2009 - Apr 2010

  Web services assistant

  In my role I provided support and development skills for the website and other web enabled projects across the University; as well technical, design and communication support to the web services and Marketing team. I was responsible for coordinating web projects and delivery within the Web Services Team and assisting the development team with design and technical solutions

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  Infolab21

  Apr 2010 - Jul 2013

  Business relationship officer

  InfoLab21 is Lancaster University's world-class ICT Centre of Excellence, whose focus is to encourage Digital & Creative research growth with impact and stimulate sustainable innovation, drawing value out of the existing knowledge and working to support the growth of local companies.In my role at InfoLab21 I worked within the Knowledge Business Centre to specify and co-ordinate the delivery of knowledge exchange projects for companies throughout the North West. I also worked to identify and develop research that was suitable for commercialisation. Show less

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  Business growth hub/ creative england

  Jul 2013 - Mar 2014

  Digital & creative media sector development manager (contract)

  Working in a joint role for both organisations I developed a sector strategy to stimulate growth through innovation, by enabling the realisation of ideas and encouraging early adoption of emerging technologies. This was backed up by addressing the skills need and funding requirements. I led on the £1m Greater Manchester Creative and Digital Launchpad competition in partnership with the Technology Strategy Board.Creative England invests in and supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media and I worked directly with them to develop and deliver a dynamic strategy and range of suitable services. I engaged with the Business Growth Hub’s clients and partners to ensure that they were able to fully support companies in the Digital & Creative Media Sector with their growth plans. Show less

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  University of manchester

  Mar 2014 - Jan 2015

  Business engagement officer

  I worked within the Business Engagement Team, based in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, to support the development and implementation of strategies and operational plans for business engagement; as well as promoting and brokering opportunities for collaborative and contract research projects with external partners.With over 500 academic staff and a similar number of post-doctoral research staff, the breadth and volume of our research is unsurpassed. The research is world-leading in terms of quality, as shown by the results of the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2008, and by the award of the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics to two of our professors, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their highly publicised discovery of graphene. Show less

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  Northwest ehealth

  Jan 2015 - Jul 2018

  Business development manager

  A spin out company formed from a partnership between the university of Manchester and the NHS.NWEH changed the landscape of clinical trials by pioneering novel ways to bring new medicines to the right patients, quicker and cheaper by using innovative software that unlocks the value of health and care data in electronic health records for the benefit of patients. NWEH is the only organisation in the world to have evaluated the safety and effectiveness of a pre-license medicine in a real-world setting; developing the technology platform that enabled the delivery of the GlaxoSmithKline Salford Lung Study.Their customers are global pharmaceutical companies and technology partners as well as NHS and government. Woking collaboratively with regulators, payers, health technology agencies and local healthcare ecosystems and they are continuing to lead the way in developing and delivering improvements in health care and research. As business development manager I contributed to the commercial development of strategic and operational planning, balancing the requirements of key stakeholders and our multifaceted technology . I developed the lead generation plan and worked directly with clients to develop project proposals and take overall account management.A key part of my role was to manage the global and UK branding and marketing of NorthWest EHealth, including strategic planning, social media, PR and communications. Show less

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  Lancaster university

  Jul 2018 - now

  The Health Innovation Campus is an international centre focused on tackling the biggest challenge in healthcare today – helping people to live as long and as healthily as possible.It presents a unique open innovation platform where we are bringing health and care providers, world leading academics, third sector organisations and service users together with industry to develop solutions to health and care problems, driving new market opportunities and business growth.The campus is being built as a globally leading centre for supporting the development of new innovative products, processes and services through the significant cross-sector market opportunities presented by an ageing population and the need to drive cost effectiveness, efficiencies and improved service delivery across health and care providers.Health Innovation at Lancaster University will enable significant opportunities for industry, in particular SMEs, through collaboration with researchers across a range of academic disciplines. Show less This role was responsible for overseeing the design and delivery of a £4 million European Region Development Fund (ERDF) SME Health Innovation Programme. Building on the expertise within the Health Innovation Campus and complementary research from across the whole University, it provided funding for 450 SMEs to explore health innovation and catalyse the delivery of new health product and services into the region. Strategically it aligned with the ambitions of the new £41m Health Innovation One building, to be an inspirational space acting as a focal point where diverse stakeholders are able to physically and virtually come together to take an integrated approach to improving health, in line with the aims of the UK’s Industrial Strategy and the NHS long-term plan.The landmark building is also the new home for Lancaster University’s Medical School and Division of Health Research – offering state-of-the-art teaching facilities, including a simulated hospital ward in the Clinical Skills Centre and cutting-edge anatomy suite.Development of the new campus has been supported by Lancashire Enterprise Partnership Growth Deal funding, as well as the European Regional Development Fund. Show less

  • Commercial Programme Manager - Health Innovation Campus

    Oct 2021 - now

  • ERDF Programme Manager - Health Innovation Campus

    Jul 2018 - Oct 2021