About usCosting and Pricing Awareness and Advisory Manager (Secondment) Grade: 8 (£51,474 - £60,521 inc LWA) Departments: Innovation & Enterprise & Research & Innovation Services Location: Tottenham Court Road Please note this roles duration lasts until 31st July 2025 only. About Us UCL is one of the UK’s leading universities, a world-class multidisciplinary research and teaching institution. With over 29 Nobel Prize winners and a legacy of pioneering innovation, UCL is dedicated to tackling global challenges and fostering academic excellence. Our dynamic community is at the forefront of research and innovation, creating impactful solutions to complex global problems. Business Innovation UCL Innovation & Enterprise is a group of specialist teams working with students and staff to foster innovation and enterprise, create links with the outside world, and accelerate UCL’s innovation and impact. Business & Innovation Partnerships (BIP) focuses on engaging with industrial partners, government entities, external organizations, and stakeholders, linking them with UCL’s community and experts. The work of UCL Innovation & Enterprise is central to UCL’s mission to change the world for the better and plays a vital role in addressing global challenges. Research Innovation Research & Innovation Services (RIS) provides dedicated, specialist support throughout the research and innovation lifecycle, helping to sustain and advance UCL’s position as a world-class, research-led university. The team’s remit covers awards, contracts, compliance and assurance, planning, insight, and improvement, ensuring that UCL’s research and innovation activities are conducted to the highest standards and have maximum impact. About the roleContext We seek a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our team as the Costing and Pricing Awareness and Advisory Manager. This role involves developing and delivering training programs and an advisory service to embed new costing and pricing practices for industrial collaborations across UCL’s faculties. The successful candidate will identify advisory needs, provide support and training on negotiations, and foster a culture of best practices in costing and pricing. Main Purpose of the Job
Key Working Relationships Work with stakeholders across UCL’s faculties, including the TRO, Life and Medical Sciences, Brain Sciences, and Population & Health Sciences, as well as the wider Innovation & Enterprise team, Deans, Vice Deans of Enterprise, Faculty Managers, Operational leads, and PIs. About youDuties and Responsibilities Raise Awareness
Costing and Pricing Policy Training
Advisory (Governance and Continuous Improvement)
What we offerAs well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: • Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 41 days of holiday, including 27 days of annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 6 closure days.
• Annual Leave Purchase Scheme: Have the option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual leave.
• Pension Scheme: Benefit from our defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE).
• Employee Wellbeing Initiatives: Take advantage of our cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and immigration loan.
• Relocation Support: We offer a relocation scheme for certain positions to assist with the transition.
• Work-Life Balance: With on-site nursery facilities and an on-site gym, we support your wellbeing inside and outside the workplace.
• Family-Friendly Policies: Enjoy enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay to support you during important life moments.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Access our Staff Support Service for confidential assistance with personal or professional challenges.
• Medical Insurance: Benefit from discounted medical insurance for you and your family.
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Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
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