Lead Consultant
Clarivate Analytic
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
The position offers challenging hypothesis-driven projects for professionals with an innovation and commercialization background and leadership experience. Closely working with various subject-matter experts (SMEs), the lead will have responsibilities that include, but are not limited to:
Define the TRL advancement plan and experiment matrix for early-stage teams, with clear hypotheses and exit criteria.
Develop relationships with stakeholders, policymakers, and decision-makers within target client groups.
Design laboratory test protocols (methods, acceptance criteria, instrumentation setup) and establish verification/validation routines.
Lead day-to-day lab operations especially in the early-stage TRL: scheduling, equipment readiness, safety and quality procedures, sample handling, and vendor/test-house coordination.
Supervise execution of experiments, troubleshoot technical issues in real time, and coach teams on good experimental practice.
Maintain requirements-to-tests-to-results linkage; run technical reviews and drive risk burn-down across critical subsystems.
Translate findings into actionable design iterations and recommend the next TRL step with a grounded rationale.
Coordinate with SMEs and mentors: scope targeted engagements with clear objectives, deliverables, and acceptance criteria; schedule at key inflection points.
Design and run small process pilots; evaluate outcomes with robust measurement and attribution.
Institutionalize successful practices by translating pilot results into standard operating procedures and governance.
Guide teams in adopting improved ways of working and sustaining change
Desired Candidate Profile
About You experience, education, skills, and accomplishments
Master s degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline
At least 10 years of experience consulting with government and academic clients or start-ups or incubators, including portfolio reviews and programme delivery or experience in innovation consulting
Previous experience in either Government, Innovation Agencies, Incubators,br>Accelerators, University Technology Transfer Offices, Entrepreneurshipbr>Support Organisations, or Innovation-focussed corporate sectors.
Demonstrated experience in reviewing TRL stages, evidence and testbr>results to pass stage gates
Track record within start-up and innovation ecosystems (accelerators/ incubators, venture, corporate partnerships) translating research into market outcomes.
Knowledge of process innovation and operating-model design (process mapping, KPI design, change management, adoption).
It would be great if you also had . . .
MBA
Advanced training in innovation or technology management is an advantage.
Experience in SQL, R, or Python for analysis and dashboarding.
Prior experience establishing or strengthening technology transferbr>offices (TTOs), including invention disclosure, IP triage, andbr>commercialization pathways
Previous experience in academia and/or industry R&D
Experience working with patents databases analytics tools
Company Industry
- IT - Software Services
Department / Functional Area
- Engineering
Keywords
- Lead Consultant
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Clarivate Analytic
About the Team Clarivate s Academic and Government Consulting is a diverse group of practitionersbr>working across the global delivering consulting revenue globally. The Academic andbr>Government Consulting group is made up of three practice areas: Researchbr>Analytics, Reputation, and Evaluation & Assessment. Across our practice areas,br>there is also a wide range of skill sets (e.g., data scientists, bibliometricians,br>visualisation specialists, analysts, etc). Across our different practice areas there isbr>also a wider variety of capabilities and services we provide to clients along withbr>different commercial and go-to-market models. The MENA Academic andbr>Government Consulting team works at the crossroad between academia andbr>industry to facilitate collaborations and drive innovation practices