Director of Innovation

EIT Health – a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) designated by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) – is focused on promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, and education in the domain of healthy living and active ageing. EIT Health brings together leading organisations along the entire value chain from smaller companies to larger industry, excellent academic and research institutions, as well as public sector organisations, to promote healthy living, support active ageing and improve healthcare by removing barriers to innovation, promoting talent and education, leveraging enabling technologies and exploiting big-data. As an EIT-designated KIC, EIT Health can utilise European Commission/EIT funding and leverage the resources of its partner organisations in order to achieve its goals.

EIT Health headquarters will be located in Munich and will develop its activities across a network of co-location centres in six cities: Paris, London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Heidelberg. Those co-location centres are the home-base to 52 core partners and 92 associate partners, some of whom are also located in Hungary, Wales, Poland, Portugal, Croatia and Slovenia and will begin operations in mid-2015.

EIT Health is now seeking to appoint a Director of Innovation. The post holder, who will be a member of the Management Board, will provide overall direction in innovation activities for the EIT Health Supervisory Board, CEO, Directors and colleagues, taking executive responsibility for the development and implementation of innovation strategy. Candidates must demonstrate a deep understanding of translational research and have significant experience of working with academic researchers and entrepreneurs. The successful candidate will demonstrate proven leadership skills and a strong track record in the successful development and implementation of initiatives to support innovation activities.

Qualified candidates from all sectors are invited to apply. The position is to be filled by around mid-year and the salary and benefits package will be attractive and commensurate with experience.

Further information, including details of how to apply, can be downloaded atwww.perrettlaver.com/candidates quoting reference 1985. For an initial informal discussion on the role, please contact Dr Goran Gregorovic via +44 (0) 207 340 6202 or goran.gregorovic@perrettlaver.com The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon CEST on Wednesday 1^st July 2015.