Career Opportunities at Queen's

About the job:

Part of Momentum One Zero, an AI and Cybersecurity focussed innovation centre, this role focuses on opening and developing early-stage commercial conversations with industry, engaging senior technical stakeholders (e.g. CTOs), supporting the early-stage assessment and qualification of opportunities, and providing high-quality market intelligence, pipeline insight and operational recommendations to support the effective delivery of agreed commercial priorities. The post holder will proactively engage with potential clients to generate leads, schedule meetings, and promote Momentum One Zero’s value proposition to industry.

About the person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Degree, (or equivalent qualification), in a relevant subject OR substantial demonstrably relevant experience.
  
• A minimum of 3 years’ recent relevant experience within a business development, sales or business engagement role(s) to include demonstrable evidence of:
  
  • Building strong relationships and networks with, and effectively managing, a wide variety of business stakeholders
    
  • Generating relevant business development leads and contributing to productive outcomes (projects, events, collaborations)
    
  • Planning, coordinating and tracking sales or business engagement activity, including reporting and follow-up within defined processes.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/. 

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity. 

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport. 

Candidate Information