The posting
Join us at EIT:
At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
- Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
- Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate Change & Managing CO₂
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.
Your Role:
At EIT we are looking for a Clinical Operations, Partnership Manager to join the Commercial Projects team within the Legal, Commercial and Compliance division of EIT on a fixed term 12-month contract. This role leads management from EIT’s side of the partnership with our clinical services delivery partner, and co-ordinates operational delivery to ensure we successfully build, launch, deliver and grow our EIT Oxford Clinic to deliver impactful and innovative healthcare services to the local community.
Your Responsibilities:
Liaison and Partnership Stewardship
- Serve as the primary point of contact for EIT’s Clinic operating partner, and their affiliates, ensuring regular engagement and communication.
- Develop and maintain trusted, senior-level partner relationships through proactive outreach, relationship management, and stewardship of key partnerships based on agreed governance structures.
- Negotiate to deliver on EIT’s preferred position on scopes of work, amendments to the delivery frameworks, and establishment and monitoring of performance expectations
- Identify opportunities to expand and strengthen the partnership, for example to facilitate collaboration on innovation or clinical research proposals to advance medical humane endeavours.
- Working with existing best practices (Asana, Confluence etc.) where available, establish a robust Partnership Management Framework to drive the appropriate rhythm, tracking, reporting and visibility of the progression to shared goals.
Management of Operations to deliver on the EIT Clinic Partnership
- Act as trusted EIT representative for external meetings with our EIT Clinic partner regarding operational delivery of the clinic in Oxford, and any additional agreed programs or active partnerships.
- Provide clear communication and reporting to the Clinic Committee, Collaboration Leads, EIT Central Operations leadership (Legal, Commercial, Compliance, Finance, other) on a regular basis and other internal stakeholders upon request.
- Manage internal stakeholder communications regarding Clinic Operational performance and progress and act as a main point of contact across EIT for any concerns or escalations.
- Working hand in hand with EIT Delivery stakeholders (Estates, Facilities, IT etc.) regularly monitor and evaluate operational pre-opening and post-opening progression against the agreed project priorities and timelines and manage deviations as appropriate based on the escalation process.
- Support business planning for ongoing clinical operations and infrastructure, based on agreed terms.
- Working with central communications team and following agreed scheduling, lead or co-lead EIT communications and narratives (internal and, if required, public facing) regarding clinical operations and programme progress.
- Week to week, oversee Clinic program budgets and operational expenditure.
- Provide support for Clinic-related financial forecasting and resource planning.
- Where required for EIT Clinic-related procurement, act as a nominated approver and/or requisition raiser.
- Act as the main point of contact regarding EIT Clinical operations, for the EIT Finance Team and, with the Director, Commercial Projects review month to month Clinic budget performance.
- Provide industry expertise to support and oversee the design, launch, and management of EIT’s Clinic marketing and launch activities, led by our Clinic partner.
Requirements
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
- Clear and confident communicator.
- Proven stakeholder and partnership management skills within clinical operations, with the credibility to engage senior leaders.
- Strong negotiation and influencing capability, ensuring agreed frameworks, scopes, and expectations are effectively secured.
- Commercially and financially astute, with the ability to oversee budgets, monitor expenditure, and support accurate forecasting.
- Understanding of UK healthcare systems and regulatory frameworks, leading or overseeing clinical operations across a team, department or programme.
Benefits
We offer the following benefits:
- Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.
- Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%
- Life Assurance.
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan
- Employee discounts
- Electric car scheme
- Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Family Planning
- Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments
- Coaching & Therapy services
Working Together – What It Involves:
- You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
- You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).
