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Deep Tech Accelerator Lead
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Deep Tech Accelerator Lead
RECRUITMENTiQ is working in partnership with a development agency to assist in their search for a Deep Tech Accelerator Lead to provide strategic and operational leadership in Hawick.
Are you a commercially minded leader with experience to turn robotics, automation, or deep tech innovation into practical business growth and scale up? Can you bring together businesses, universities, investors, and partners to accelerate technology adoption and support regional growth?
What You'll Do Day-to-Day
- Develop and lead the delivery of the Deep Tech Roadmap
- Establish a commercially sustainable accelerator model
- Support businesses to adopt robotics, automation, and other innovative technologies
- Work closely with universities, investors, industry, and national partners
- Translate research and innovation into practical, scalable business opportunities
- Improve productivity and growth
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The Skills, Experience, and Personal Attributes You'll Need to Have
- Confident, collaborative leader
- Strong relationship management, influencing, and commercial skills
- Experience in robotics, automation, manufacturing, or technology adoption
- Comfortable working with SMEs and senior stakeholders
- Able to diagnose business challenges, design practical adoption pathways, and deliver programs that deliver measurable impact
- Hands-on, innovative, delivery focused
- Motivated by the opportunity to strengthen the innovation ecosystem
What We'll Offer
- Competitive and varied reward package
- Designed to cover your wellbeing, your lifestyle, your working life, and your future
- Generous annual leave entitlement and pension contribution
- Salary ranges are designed to be competitive, and new entrants will normally start on the minimum of the pay range, except in exceptional circumstances
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Location and Working Conditions
- Based in Hawick, Scottish Borders
- Approximately 70% of active working time enabling close collaboration with entrepreneurs, partners, and colleagues across the innovation ecosystem
- Regular travel across Scotland required, so access to a vehicle or other means of transport is essential
Role Details
- Full-time and permanent position
- Alternative working patterns will be considered
If you are an Inclusive, Responsible, and Bold individual who is always Striving for success and believe you have something to offer as a Deep Tech Accelerator Lead, then we would love to hear from you.
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