/Strategic Partnership Manager

Strategic Partnership Manager

Management - Leuven | More than two weeks ago

As Strategic Partnership Manager in IMEC’s Corporate Strategy Office, you play a key role in managing relations with internal and external stakeholders of imec’s internal deeptech innovation portfolio.

Strategic Partnership Manager

What you will do

As Strategic Partnership Manager in IMEC’s Corporate Strategy Office, you play a key role in managing relations with internal and external stakeholders of imec’s internal deeptech innovation portfolio. You will support the project teams of aspiring projects towards achieving their milestones and organize the report-out of results to imec’s strategic partners. To this end, you will work together with many internal stakeholders including imec’s portfolio management and business development teams. The projects will stretch over the broad imec technology and application spectrum (compute, connectivity, health, automotive, energy,...). The interaction with imec stakeholders of technical, industrial and public authority background will provide a challenging learning environment.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Serve as account manager for a range of public and private stakeholders involved in imec’s internal innovation pipeline.
  • Establish efficient workflows and reporting structures to keep internal and external stakeholders informed on key technical, operational, and business milestones.
  • Consolidate project progress into audit-proof data systems for accurate external reporting.
  • Drive urgency and transparency across internal innovation projects by coordinating follow-ups and overseeing corporate reporting.
  • Ensure project success by managing valorization milestones in collaboration with portfolio and business development teams.
  • Support project teams throughout the innovation lifecycle by building and managing funding partnerships with companies and universities.
  • Gain deep insight into imec’s mission, strategy, business focus, product lines, organizational structure, and key decision-makers.

What we do for you

We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you’ll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will define the society of tomorrow.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, 'our corporate university', we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth. 

We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits. 

Who you are

  • You are a technology enthusiast and holder of a degree in sciences, engineering or business engineering with ≥5 years experience in the industry of advanced semiconductor technology development, integration and realization of semiconductor-based devices.
  • You have a keen interest in innovation management and driving technology to impact.
  • You get energy from working with innovative teams and you can drive them to higher performance through a constructive and participative approach.
  • Your enthusiasm stimulates people to pursue high-impact, high-gain research projects.
  • You have strong English communication, presentation and leadership skills.
  • You have a curious and critical mind that is eager to understand and challenge new concepts.
  • You can manage a wide variety of technical topics simultaneously and are diligent in project follow-up and report-out.
  • A lot of cross-disciplinary analyses are needed to perform the above tasks, which implies a strong maturity, a broad scientific interest and a large knowledge basis

 

IMEC and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. IMEC will consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes submitted by vendors such as search firms, staffing agencies, professional recruiters, fee-based referral services and recruiting agencies (hereafter “Agency”) to have been referred by the Agency free of charge. IMEC will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have a prior written agreement with IMEC, validated by its HR department, in place regarding a specific job opening and allowing to submit resumes.

 

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