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About the Role

The Director of Technology Transfer and Venture Building (TT&VB) is a foundational, senior leadership role within the new TT&VB team, part of UCLP’s Invention Unit. This role is responsible for co-developing, operationalizing, and delivering the commercialization and venture-building strategy for innovations emerging from the UCLPartners partnership. The Director will lead a portfolio of NHS-originated technologies, managing the process from opportunity assessment and IP strategy through to licensing, partnerships, spin-out formation, and venture growth.

Responsibilities

Line manage the Principals, TT&VB, setting clear and measurable objectives and supporting their professional growth.
Demonstrate leadership and mentorship within a high-performing team and across matrices, fostering an inclusive culture.
Build effective relationships at all levels across the external ecosystem and set the tone for the TT&VB function.
Grow UCLP’s reputation as a tech transfer and venture building leader externally and strengthen collaboration across NHS, academic, industry, investor, and funding communities.
Contribute materially to the positioning, development, communication, and rollout of the TT&VB strategy.
Lead the development and effective integration of the TT&VB operating model across one or more Trusts.
Take ownership of senior stakeholder relationships within their Trust(s).
Set objectives and KPIs for the capability within the Trust(s) under leadership, supporting the overarching strategy.
Ensure KPIs are consistently met or exceeded on time, within budget, and with measurable value and impact.
Model excellence in execution, evidenced through strong stakeholder feedback and tangible results.
Ensure robust portfolio, programme, and project governance is developed and adhered to.
Manage risk, monitor progress, and demonstrate sound judgment regarding escalations.
Ensure accurate and timely reporting to the Executive Leadership Team, Board, partners, Trust leadership, and investors/funders.
Work closely with other UCLPartners Directors and teams to align priorities, share capability, and provide a consistent end-to-end offer.
Serve on the UCLP Senior Leadership Team/ Leadership Forum.
Exercise sound judgment, professional maturity, and emotional intelligence in complex and ambiguous situations.
Develop, deliver, and/or support others in delivering impactful technology transfer and venture-building strategies for NHS-originated innovations.
Contribute to the definition of clear portfolio entry, stage-gate, investment, and exit criteria.
Lead, or support others to lead, commercial, market, and competitive assessments.
Determine the optimal route to impact, including licensing, collaboration, strategic partnership, spin-out formation, or other venture models.
Own intellectual property strategy across patents, software, data assets, designs, trademarks, and know-how.
Oversee IP protection, freedom-to-operate analysis, and risk management with specialist advisers.
Lead and/or support others to lead the development, structuring, and negotiation of commercial agreements.
Lead venture-creation activities, developing propositions, business models, founding teams, governance, financing strategies, and investment-readiness plans.
Work with Innovation Unit, Invention Hubs, and partner organizations to identify promising innovations early.
Shape evidence and development plans, and resolve barriers to commercial progression.
Develop trusted relationships with industry partners, entrepreneurs, investors, funders, professional advisers, and the wider innovation ecosystem.
Ensure commercialization is responsible, transparent, and aligned with patient benefit, NHS obligations, partner interests, and benefit sharing.
Deliver and report measurable portfolio outcomes, including deals completed, revenue and investment secured, ventures formed, pipeline conversion, partner value, and patient or system impact.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (preferably in a health-related subject) and postgraduate qualification or equivalent senior professional experience.
Substantial applied knowledge and leadership capability gained through senior roles in technology transfer, life sciences commercialization, venture building, investment, innovation funding, or a related field.
Evidence of continuing professional development.
A strong track record of delivering impact and commercial outcomes from early-stage health, life sciences, digital, or data-enabled innovations.
Significant experience of intellectual property identification, protection, commercialization, licensing, strategic partnerships, and/or venture creation.
Experience assessing technologies, markets, business models, development risk, and routes to market, and making robust portfolio-prioritization decisions.
Successful negotiation of complex collaboration and commercial agreements with industry, academic, NHS, investor, or funding partners.
Experience building investment cases, securing external funding or investment, and supporting ventures through formation and early growth and/or equivalent experience from the funder/investor side.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, either through direct line-management or matrix leadership, and developing professional capability.
Experience operating credibly with senior stakeholders across NHS providers, universities, industry, investors, and funders.
Strong financial management capability, including budget oversight, forecasting, resource planning, and commercial performance management.
A record of representing an organisation externally and building productive networks within an innovation ecosystem.
Designing and implementing end-to-end innovation funding or investment processes is desirable.
Alignment with the organisation’s mission, values, and commitment to better health for all.
Practical experience of embedding equality, diversity, and inclusion in leadership, decision-making, and delivery.

Skills

Deep understanding of intellectual property strategy, technology transfer, venture building, and the commercialization pathways relevant to healthcare innovation.
Strong understanding of the development path(s) and regulatory landscape for early healthcare innovation development.
Knowledge of, and networks in, the innovation investor/funder ecosystem in the UK.
Strong knowledge of the ecosystems our innovators and partners are working in; understanding the different drivers, priorities, and challenges of different stakeholders.
Strong commercial judgement, entrepreneurial thinking, and deal-making capability.
Ability to interpret complex technical, clinical, market, financial, and legal information and translate it into clear decisions and action.
Understanding of the health and care system, NHS innovation context, and the requirements for responsible commercialization of NHS-originated assets.
Strong strategic, portfolio, and programme leadership, including governance, risk, performance, and assurance.
Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to explain complex propositions to diverse audiences.
Ability to operate effectively under uncertainty, balance competing interests, and maintain momentum through complex decisions.
Ability to identify opportunities for partnerships, income, investment, and organizational growth.
Understands strategic priorities and how to translate them into effective operating models.
Demonstrates accountability, integrity, and a commitment to high-quality outcomes.
Builds trust with colleagues at all career levels and brings partners together around shared decisions and goals.
Encourages constructive challenge, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Leads and mentors inclusively, champions equality, diversity, and inclusion, and develops others.
Remains adaptable and resilient in a changing environment while making timely, evidence-based decisions.
Acts with integrity and consistently champions organisational values.
Works collaboratively and inclusively, with a commitment to learning and innovation.

Location

London

Work Type

Permanent
Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior leadership
Grade 6

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree
Postgraduate qualification or equivalent senior professional experience

Salary/Compensations

Competitive depending on experience

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

About the Company

We are a health innovation company powered by a world-class ecosystem of founders, clinical innovators, leading healthcare organisations and universities.
We work across London and beyond, helping innovations move from promise to real-world impact.
Our work spans the full innovation journey: we forecast emerging healthcare challenges and opportunities, develop and prove breakthrough solutions, adopt what works in real clinical settings, and scale innovations so they improve and transform care.
By combining deep clinical insight with the ability to test, adopt and scale through our world-class ecosystem, we make health innovations work in practice, not just in theory.
Our vision is a world where innovation creates better health for all.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and a sense of belonging; and for our work to help tackle wider health inequalities.
UCLPartners is committed to equal opportunities and all people acting on its behalf must perform their duties in a manner that supports and promotes this commitment.
We welcome applications from candidates who are neurodiverse, have a disability or long-term health condition.