Chief Industry Officer, Mental Health Mission

We want to appoint a Chief Business Officer to take accountability for facilitating and driving interactions for he MH-TRC aligned Psychological Well being Mission (MHM), funded by the Workplace for Life Science (OLS) and NIHR   https://www.nihr.ac.uk/information/427-million-funding-boost-for-mental-health-research/33559.   You’ll report back to Professor Husseini Manji.   The put up is full-time and relies within the Division of Psychiatry on the Warneford Hospital, Oxford.    

The put up is for a set time period (funded to 31 January 2028). 

You’ll companion intently with trade to grasp the boundaries and alternatives for enhanced non-public sector analysis exercise and funding into the UK psychological well being methods. You may be answerable for working with numerous stakeholders throughout the Psychological Well being Mission, the NIHR Psychological Well being Translational Analysis Collaboration (MH-TRC), regulators and different related our bodies to develop strategic plans to handle trade must advance their product portfolio for the advantage of psychological well being sufferers throughout the UK. 

You should have a Ph.D/DPhil with vital post-qualification analysis expertise, together with direct expertise within the ‘finish to finish’ means of Neuroscience drug discovery and improvement (Discovery, Translational Analysis, Scientific improvement).   With demonstrated expertise creating and main partnerships between trade, academia, and the healthcare sectors and of offering specialist recommendation to exterior trade, college, or analysis councils you should have a longtime worldwide publication report in Neuroscience R&D. 

You may be required to add a overlaying letter/supporting assertion and a CV as a part of your utility.

The cut-off date for this put up is 12.00 noon on 2nd October 2023.