[Hiring] Defence Manufacturing Partnerships Consultant @WLG

Role Description

An international defence organisation is piloting a network that connects manufacturers with spare production capacity to scale-ups and SMEs that need somewhere to industrialise their products - especially in additive manufacturing, engineering services and manufacturing as a service. It is looking for manufacturing innovation expertise to get that pilot moving and to show how it can grow. The work is remote, with occasional travel within Europe.

• Analysing the production capacity offered by manufacturers and the production needs of scale-ups and SMEs
• Assessing how ready participating companies are to manufacture at scale
• Defining matching criteria and objectives and key results that track introductions and completed business-to-business arrangements, without becoming a party to them
• Finding and engaging suitable scale-ups and facilitating introductions with manufacturers
• Designing and running expert workshops and sprints with manufacturers, start-ups and the organisation's own teams
• Spotting what blocks partnerships between large manufacturers and young companies, and turning it into a final report with practical recommendations and tools

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in manufacturing innovation, with recent work helping scale-up companies industrialise their products
• A record of facilitating partnerships between corporates and scale-ups in production or manufacturing
• Experience designing repeatable procedures or frameworks that work across many organisations
• Comfort in heavily regulated industry such as aerospace and defence, and creative ideas for using civilian factory capacity for defence needs
• Experience in complex multi-stakeholder settings - defence, government or international organisations
• Excellent written and spoken English

Benefits

• It is a chance to shape a brand-new initiative from its first matches, fully remote, at the point where innovation, industry and defence meet.