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About the Role

The BioInnovation Institute (BII) is seeking a Principal to join its Planetary Health team in London. This role involves scouting and assessing early-stage innovation for the green transition, supporting researchers and founders from lab to spinout, and collaborating with ARIA to commercialize cutting-edge UK research.

Responsibilities

Build relationships with key academic and commercial stakeholders and institutions in the UK to establish and develop BII’s venture creation support as ARIA’s Activation Partner within Planetary Health.
Drive day-to-day business activities and operations together with local colleagues in London, in close collaboration with the Planetary Health team in Denmark.
Engage with ARIA, academics, and founders to identify early-stage innovation and opportunities for the acceleration programs across BII’s broad planetary health remit.
Support selected startups and projects in BII’s acceleration programs – from application and evaluation to progress monitoring, milestone delivery, connecting to relevant networks and the transition to independent spinouts.
Map the landscape to identify gaps and emerging trends within Planetary Health relevant to the startups and projects in the programs.
Help establish and maintain partnerships across the UK innovation ecosystem, including corporate and industrial partners, investors, and public funding bodies.
Represent BII at relevant conferences, events, and networks.
Provide support across BII, help optimize processes and approaches, and offer professional sparring and coaching to colleagues.

Requirements

An MSc or PhD relevant to planetary health, e.g. biotechnology, food and agricultural science, or chemical, materials or energy engineering; an MBA or equivalent business experience is a plus.
10+ years of relevant experience, including a demonstrated track record of supporting and/or driving the commercialization of life science or deep tech innovations, e.g. at a VC/investor, start-up, accelerator or TTO.
Experience maturing translational, early-stage, research-backed planetary health or deep tech projects towards spin-out and investment, e.g. from universities, incubators, accelerators or investors – including an understanding of scale-up, capital intensity and routes to market in industrial sectors.
The ability to evaluate and develop planetary health innovation from scientific, technical and commercial perspectives, and to distinguish research projects from venture-backable projects.
A demonstrated ability to build networks and maintain relationships within the UK research and innovation ecosystem as well as the wider EU area.
Excellent communication and presentation skills in English.
Comfortable driving projects independently as well as working collaboratively in a team.
Thrive on collaborating across BII’s hubs.

Skills

Venture building
Commercialization of life science or deep tech innovations
Maturing translational, early-stage, research-backed planetary health or deep tech projects
Scale-up
Capital intensity
Routes to market in industrial sectors
Evaluating and developing planetary health innovation
Building networks
Maintaining relationships
Communication
Presentation

Location

London, UK

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years of relevant experience

Education Level

MSc or PhD
MBA or equivalent business experience is a plus

About the Company

The BioInnovation Institute (BII) is a non-profit foundation established by the Novo Nordisk Foundation in 2018.
Its mission is to accelerate research and startups to bring forward bold solutions that improve human and planetary health.
BII supports collaborative, interdisciplinary innovation across Life Sciences and Deep Tech, helping transform cutting-edge research into viable companies so that new discoveries can deliver real impact for people and society.
BII is an Activation Partner of the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) – a partnership that gives us access to a strong pipeline of ambitious UK research and helps turn breakthrough science into companies with real-world impact.
BII offers a purpose-driven community where science and innovation create meaningful change and impact in society.
BII’s entrepreneurial environment is shaped and nurtured every day by our employees, start-ups, and everyone who joins us in bringing science to life.
This role offers a unique opportunity to join Europe’s largest innovation and incubation initiative within life sciences and deep tech.
BII is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, at Ole Maaløes Vej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N. From Copenhagen, the Secretariat supports strategy, governance, and coordination across BII’s international activities.

Equal Opportunity

At BII, we believe innovation starts with people.
As a community of changemakers, we believe the best ideas emerge when people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences come together around a shared purpose.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace built on equal opportunities, where everyone can thrive and where pay is fair, equitable, and based on the principle of equal pay for equal work.
We welcome all applications regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or socio-economic background.