Closing Date: 26/09/2025

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and covering letter to brchr@babraham.co.uk

About us:

The Babraham Research Campus is considered to be the UK’s leading campus to support early-stage bioscience enterprises. World class research and business come together to promote innovation and strengthen links between academia and the commercial world.

Babraham Research Campus (BRC) is the company that manages and develops the Campus, supporting and promoting the regional and UK bioscience ecosystem. It has responsibility for the administration and commercial development of the site for the benefit of all the tenant companies including the Babraham Institute. The Campus provides emerging and growing biotech companies laboratory and office space together with access to outstanding scientific facilities in an ideal geographical location at the core of the Cambridge cluster. Our aim is to be the most successful bioincubator campus in Europe and to support the Cambridge region and the UK bio-science communities.

We are situated on an attractive 430-acre parkland estate, seven miles south west of Cambridge City Centre. The campus blends modern laboratory facilities with historic buildings in a spacious, beautifully landscaped setting. The campus offers the companies excellent amenities: fully-equipped meeting rooms and conferencing facilities, bar, coffee shop, a sports and social club, gym, tennis court and football pitch. A large component of the estate grounds including the wood, grass, grazing meadows and park land are opened for both the campus and the wider community to walk through and use.

Role

Babraham Research Campus are co-delivering the Cambridge NeuroWorks ARIA Activation Partners Fellowship Programme, together with other Cambridge organisations including the Milner Therapeutics Institute, the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge University Health Partners and are seeking to appoint a Commercialisation & Impact Builder.

The Cambridge NeuroWork’s programme aims to:

1. Support an end-to-end scientific entrepreneurship journey: From ideation of highly speculative ideas to investment-ready propositions, providing tailored support and mentorship to maximise the chances of success.

2. Create a safe place to do risky things: By harnessing the vibrant innovation ecosystem of Cambridge, the programme aims to accelerate the delivery of globally affordable neurotechnology.

3. Broaden participation: Targeting diverse backgrounds, including engineers, scientists, clinicians, other medical professionals and those from industry with the purpose to minimise barriers to participation.

4. Activate a UK-wide neurotech network: Through structured stages that spark innovative ideas, de-risk speculative science, and accelerate innovations to impact.

5. Foster collaboration: Bringing together well-acquainted partners as a single consortium to build on the connections, expertise, and infrastructure of Cambridge University Health Partners and other institutions.

The Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme offers two streams: Blue Sky Fellowships for early-stage ideas needing further development, and Frontier Fellowships for more mature concepts ready for validation. Both streams aim to support talent, enabling quick adaptation when hypotheses are disproved and accelerating innovation when validated, focusing on interfacing with the human brain at scale.

We are seeking an ambitious and impact-driven Commercialisation and Impact Builder to take a lead role in turbo-charging the development and sustainability of a neurotechnology strand of our Accelerate@Babraham programme. This is a high-potential focus area within our wider fellowship and venture-building initiatives—critical for both addressing urgent UK and global patient needs and securing the long-term sustainability and expansion of a standalone neurotech accelerator programme. The role will also lead the off boarding of current CNW Fellows and enable their continued commercial development.

The successful candidate will bring energy, urgency, and strategic thinking to accelerate the development and adoption of neurotechnology solutions emerging from academia and early-stage innovation. You will work closely with researchers, founders, industry & healthcare stakeholders, and investors to shape and scale breakthrough ideas into investable, impactful ventures.

We see no ceiling to the scalability or ambition of this work. This is a role for someone who wants to build something truly transformative—combining deep patient impact with significant economic growth potential aligned with the UK Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy and Life Science Sector Plan.

The Campus has an ambitious strategy to maintain its leading position in Europe as the preferred location for early stage and start-up companies. The role-holder will play a critical part in commercial impact of this fellowship programme which is a catalyst for expanding our campus-wide support activities which encourage the exploitation of science commercialisation, entrepreneurship and scale-up and nurture the ecosystem, enhancing connections, collaboration and engagement within the campus community.

The role will report to the Chief Scientific & Innovation Officer, working closely with the Senior Lead for Science & Entrepreneurship, LiveLabs Manager and the CNW Fellowship Operations team based at Babraham Research Campus in addition to the wider Cambridge NeuroWorks ARIA Activation Partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve the neurotechnology strand of the Accelerate@Babraham programme, ensuring its success, scalability, visibility, and long-term sustainability as a future standalone neurotech accelerator.

• Work with scientific founders to define clear commercialisation strategies, validate markets, and strengthen value propositions.

• Cultivate partnerships with industry, investors, and health system stakeholders to accelerate development and adoption.

• Contribute to the ongoing design and scaling of the wider CNW fellowship and translational programmes across geographies.

• Act as a champion for the neurotechnology field, internally and externally, positioning Babraham Research Campus as a national and international leader in this space.

• Identify and support high-potential ventures with mentorship, connections, and commercial insights.

This list is not exhaustive, and the successful candidate would be expected to undertake reasonable additional duties in support of the site operations as and when required.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Relevant undergraduate degree in the life sciences or other qualification with an equivalent combination of relevant experience, education and training

• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject or significant post graduate experience.

• MBA (desirable)

Experience

• Commercial experience in the healthtech or life sciences industry, ideally with exposure to neurotechnology or adjacent sectors.

• A clear passion for translating science into real-world patient benefit and scalable commercial outcomes.

• Strategic and hands-on: able to set direction and work directly with early-stage founders.

• Proven ability to work across academic, commercial, and clinical boundaries.

• Experience of working with diverse stakeholders at all levels internally and externally.

• Experience of contracting and budgetary oversight.

• Scientific or technical background relevant to neuroscience, neurotechnology, or digital health.

• Previous leadership in accelerator programmes, translational initiatives, or innovation support roles.

• A track record of entrepreneurship and early-stage venture development.

Skills and Abilities

• Can work under pressure and to tight timelines.

• Approachable, friendly, helpful and supportive team player.

• Ability to think strategically and work proactively and on own initiative.

• Understanding of the UK and global innovation and healthcare ecosystems.

• A strong network within healthtech, biotech, venture capital, or research institutions.

• Ability to work across a matrix management structure.

• Experience in business development, technology transfer, or venture-building environments.

• Supportive of the entrepreneurial journey and willing to provide a listening ear.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Use of Microsoft word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and other packages.

• Able to demonstrate our company values (passion, teamwork, customer focus, commercial awareness and continuous improvement)

Company Benefits

• Pension Allowance - Babraham Research Campus Ltd. offers a Group Personal Pension Scheme and currently contributes 10.5% of salary subject to a staff contribution of 3%.

• Holiday Entitlement - 25 days p.a. plus bank Holidays and 3 privilege days for Christmas Shutdown.

• Discretional Annual Bonus - Employees may be eligible for a discretional performance related bonus.

• Private Healthcare.

• Employee Wellbeing Service - The scheme offers confidential support, information, expert advice and specialist counselling service to all BRC employees

• Restaurant Facilities.

• Skills training is encouraged.

• Onsite Accommodation - There are a number of hostels, flats and houses that can be rented.

• Social - Sports & Social Club and onsite Gym.

• Nursery and Holiday Playscheme on site. (Availability of places is dependent on demand).

• There is free car parking on the Campus (please note that the Campus actively pursues a green transport policy).

Any offer of employment will be subject to security screening and may be subject to health screening.