Business Development Manager - Agriculture & Food, CSIRO

CSIRO

Location:

Australia, Adelaide ▼

Category:

Research and Development

Contract Type:

Employment contract

Salary:

131113.00 - 153639.00 AUD / Year

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Job Description:

As the Business Development Manager - Agriculture and Food, you'll play a key role in guiding research opportunities from planning to market impact. You will work closely with researchers to identify the best commercialisation pathways, business models, and strategic partners for success.

Job Responsibility:

Actively contribute to influence and implement a Partnerships and Business Development (P&BD) strategy that drives impactful innovation and science
Through confident guidance, articulate the value of early engagement with partners to optimise the scope, scale, business model, and impact of research partnerships up to the level of ecosystem coalitions
Act at the program on a page level, partner with researchers across boundaries to grow the scale of CSIRO’s partnering and business development activities including research partnerships with universities, industry and government up to enterprise level coalitions
Represent CSIRO in engagements with relevant stakeholders and engage strategically with priority industry and government relationships
Working collaboratively with Research and Enterprise Unit colleagues, ensure optimised business and commercial outcomes are negotiated and managed for all relationships, including strategic partnerships and stakeholder engagement
Undertake activities that successfully support project ideation, development and execution
Implement programs and initiatives to improve how CSIRO engages with relevant stakeholders, industry, universities, and the broader innovation community

Requirements:

Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience in a relevant science area relevant to the Food Security and/or, Farming Systems and/or Agriculture Sustainability, with business and commercial experience in the Australian agriculture R&D innovation sector
Demonstrated business acumen to successfully engage with public and private funded organisations to identify, develop and execute commercial path-to-market strategies, and innovative business models
Demonstrated ability to lead, co-design and coordinate large and complex programs of work, including the ability to facilitate and drive collaboration across CSIRO research teams, national R&D providers, Federal and State government in the Australian agriculture R&D innovation sector
A demonstrated history of professional and respectful behaviours and attitudes aligned to CSIRO values in a complex working environment with both internal and external clients/partners and colleagues
Strong relationship management skills and the demonstrated ability to use complex influencing strategies, to advise and support colleagues, internal & external stakeholders to achieve CSIRO’s strategic objectives
Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, including experience working with a broad range of stakeholders, and science, commercial staff and a proven ability to work with and influence outcomes across all levels in an organisation
A growth mindset, proven ability to anticipate, manage and develop appropriate solutions to complex problems, effectively manage ambiguity and readily adapt to changing circumstances
Demonstrated experience in successful project management, including planning, engagement, monitoring and reporting to meet or exceed specified outcomes and timeframes

What we offer:

Flexible working arrangements
Diversity and inclusion
Up to 15.4% superannuation

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

March 28, 2025

Expiration:

April 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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