Innovation Consultant - Life Sciences & Health - India Amsterdam-Duivendrecht • Catalyze

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Location: Working remotely from India
Experience required: Minimum 5 years in a consultancy environment writing business proposals and experience working with International clientele
Education background: Masters in Sciences preferably with business focus study

About us

At Catalyze we commit ourselves to accelerate innovations that have a positive impact on the world. We are the driving force for innovations across the fields of Life Sciences and Sustainability. Our offerings of strategic consulting services, funding consulting, project management and more, deliver impactful expertise in all development stages of an innovation. With a proven track record and the highest quality and success rate in the industry, we aim to be the consulting partner of choice to drive the success of meaningful innovation projects.

Catalyze was founded by researchers and entrepreneurs that truly understand business and know how to bring an innovation to success. We lower the thresholds to resources for companies and academics, with consistent success. To date, we have raised over €2B and built a network of more than 6000 projects and investment partners. Thus, we have affirmed our status as a key player in the innovation ecosystem, headquartered in Amsterdam and operating worldwide. In our commitment to make impact, we strongly believe that the best and most meaningful innovations deserve the best chance to succeed.

Clientele

Our clients include world-leading experts and great entrepreneurial minds that work on cutting-edge innovations. This allows us to be at the forefront of technological innovations, creates a highly inspiring environment that fosters continuous growth. As innovation consultants we closely collaborate with our clients to support them along their innovation journey, helping them to turn their innovations into reality. As innovation consultants, we take a leading role in defining, shaping and co-developing innovation plans, financing strategies, developing roadmaps and planning commercialization. As the trusted guide and critical partner to our clients, it is our mission to lead them towards success.

India Team

We have started building our teams in India from 2019. We currently have a small but highly qualified team of consultants with international experiences working from different cities in India. We work through a payroll agency to employ our India Consultants. Our India based consultants worked previously from our small office in ICRISAT in Hyderabad but currently we are working on a fully hybrid model and it is possible to work from any city in India. We have 3 consultants who have backgrounds such as PhD and working experiences from leading European, American and Asian universities and corporations. Our India based consultants are integrated into our teams based in the Netherlands and work on the same projects together with our consultants based in Netherlands.

INNOVATION CONSULTANT - LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTH - INDIA

Are you passionate about being a part of a young and professional team that is committed to make a positive difference in human health? As an innovation consultant, you work closely with our clients to transform their innovative ideas into projects and set-up valuable partnerships. You take a leading role in conceptualizing and co-developing their project plan, development pathway and commercialization strategy. You act as the trusted guide and critical partner of our clients to lead them towards success. You will report to the Managing consultant and have the opportunity to grow into a Senior Consultant position.

Responsibilities

• Independently developing project proposals for our clients in the field of Life Sciences & Health
• Coordinate and manage the project application process with client and (large) stakeholder groups.
• Writing project proposals, business cases and business plans for clients.
• Providing strategic advice on the positioning of projects towards funding agencies.
• Actively thinking with clients about business, commercialization and/or development strategies and positioning of their innovations and technologies.
• Performing market research and desk research within the diverse fields of our clients.
• Bringing together companies, universities, and research institutes to establish long-term partnerships.
• Actively follow new developments and innovations in the industry and contribute to strengthen our expertise.
• Guiding and coaching of fellow team members.
• Establish and maintain long-term client relationships and identify and act on new funding opportunities for our established clients.

• Proven ability to work in international organization and international experience
• Passion for innovations and commercial / business sense.
• A relevant Master’s degree, with science background and/or business focus.
• Substantial experience (5+ years) in grant writing, writing strategic plans or business plans, science communication, or in managing and coordinating large projects.
• At least 3 years of work experience in a commercial environment, preferably in an advisory/consulting role
• Demonstrable insights into the development of Life Science & Health innovations from ideation to commercialization.
• At least a general understanding of funding programs.

• Excellent analytical, conceptual, and critical thinking skills
• Highly organized, independent, and result-driven with a strong commercial awareness
• Personal and situational leadership qualities
• Excellent social, communication and people-management skills
• Pro-active and client-oriented attitude
• Excellent English communication skills (written and spoken)

• A competitive gross salary based on experience with excellent secondary conditions.
• Permanent position after successful temporary (1-year) appointment.
• Opportunity to grow into a Senior Consultant position
• Performance based bonus structure
• 27 vacation days per year
• Monthly working from home allowance
• Health Insurance
• Laptop and working from home supplies
• Fully remote position from India
• A professional and dynamic working environment that values independence, entrepreneurship, and self-development.