Connected Places Catapult
Head of Enterprise Support Technical
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Application Deadline: 13 August 2026
Department: Built Environment & Local Growth
Location: London and Milton Keynes
Compensation: £80,920 - £89,472 / year
Description
Head of Enterprise Support Technical
Contract type/Duration: 12 months Fixed Term Contract
Working hours: Full time
Band: 4.3
Salary: £80,920 to £89,472 (depending on office location and proven ability)
Reports to: Enterprise Innovation Director
Location: London or Milton Keynes (minimum of two days a week in the office. You can do more than two days if preferable)
Closing date: 10am on the 13th of August 2026
The Role
You will be the technical expert for innovation and business growth programmes and support new bids and propositions
- Ensure any new solutions proposed or client delivery uses a broad technical perspective and understanding
- Provide excellent thought leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive others to meet revenue targets by providing specialist and technical knowledge, and coaching to help qualify ideas and proposals with thought leadership.
- Ensure the development and presentation of client proposals is technically accurate.
- Lead the development of thought leadership collateral to support ‘go to market’ solutions and service offerings.
- Work with account leads and teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and contracting from a technical point of view.
- Identify opportunities from a technical point of view to ensure pipeline is future proofed.
- Solve complex problems, identify new solutions using a broad technical perspective and understanding.
- Lead innovative solution design activity.
- Lead on significant and high-profile projects from a technical perspective.
- Assure quality of technical standards.
- Act as SRO on technical aspects of programmes and projects.
- Provide end to end technical project leadership and accountability.
- Lead technical aspects of stakeholder engagement to build confidence in CPC.
- Develop senior client buy in across a range of stakeholders.
- Hold face off accountability at senior management levels.
- Update CRM system with contact and client information.
- Be a recognised thought leader.
- Support the development of professions member's technical skills to ensure high standard of solutions delivery and expertise.
- Actively coach and mentor colleagues.
- Drive high attendance at Profession Communities activities.
- Maintain own professional development.
- Ensure an ethos of equity, inclusivity and diversity underpin your work activity, contribute to inclusive innovation across all Catapult activities.
- You may be required to undertake any other reasonable duties to support the Catapult in achieving its strategic outcomes and ensure effective business operations.
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Drive identification of innovative solutions.
- View the problem from multiple perspectives and ensures a connected response.
- Tap into expert internal and external networks.
- Powerful influencing across internal and external stakeholders.
- Has trusted adviser status with customers and able to represent the needs of customers internally.
- Communicate complex ideas clearly across a variety of audiences and channels and represent CPC as an expert at a variety of events and organisations.
- Use insight and experience to ensure effective allocation of work, based on expertise and requirements.
- Create an environment that ensure teams can respond to changing needs and to move beyond constraints.
- Apply inclusion and sustainability thinking across projects, activity, teams, events, and supplier activities.
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Benefits
- 9 day fortnight for everyone, we have a full company shutdown every other Friday.
- 23.5 holiday entitlement for everyone, with pro-rata calculations for part-time employees, along with a Christmas shutdown period for additional days off.
- Competitive pension, up to 10% company contribution to help you save for your future.
- Two paid days of volunteering leave per year (pro-rata for part-time employees) to support charitable activities.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing 24/7 confidential work/life support services to you and your immediate family members.
- Cycle to Work Scheme encouraging a healthy and sustainable commute.
- Cash Health Plan, offering reimbursement for a wide range of essential and everyday healthcare expenses, promoting your well-being.
- Payroll Giving scheme, allowing regular charitable contributions from pre-tax income, maximizing the impact of your donations.
- Discounts and offers from a wide variety of retailers, enhancing your purchasing power and providing savings opportunities.
- Mortgage Advice benefit, delivered in partnership with Charles Cameron & Associates – provides employees with free, expert mortgage advice and end-to-end mortgage support from the application process through to completion.
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