Plexal
Innovation Lead Cyber
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Job Title
This role is central to Plexal’s innovation and technology consulting services, helping organisations navigate the emerging technology landscape, make strategic and operational decisions and de-risk their potential investments.
As an Innovation Lead, you will lead consulting and research projects, in addition to managing accounts with public and private sector organisations who want to know how emerging technologies can help solve their challenges. You will be hands-on in mapping how emerging technologies are evolving, identifying relevant capability in the UK and beyond, and analysing the risks, opportunities and trade-offs of these technologies. You will also analyse the market forces and wider drivers impacting technologies, and translate this into actionable insights. Your work will also include helping clients futureproof through horizon scanning activities to identifying potential upcoming technological developments.
You will also support cross-functional teams to deliver excellent client work, while maintaining an up-to-date understanding of relevant technologies and threat landscapes.
In doing so, you will contribute to Plexal’s mission of advancing the UK’s innovation ecosystem by ensuring the new technologies are well-understood and brought in for deployment where relevant.
Responsibilities
We are a diverse and cross-disciplinary team, interested in candidates with strong experience with Cyber. Key responsibilities include:
- Managing teams of consultants and associates to design and deliver end-to-end research projects for clients, with a focus on emerging technologies. This includes; supporting clients in scoping research questions, using qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, interpreting and analysing results, and sharing findings via impactful reports and presentations.
- Acting as a relationship manager, building partnerships and commercial relationships to help grow our initiatives and Plexal’s innovation services business.
- Leading the creation of high-impact outputs that help clients make decisions on their emerging technology strategy.
- Monitoring emerging technology trends and market needs to guide our work and shape our innovation strategy as we grow.
- Consulting clients on the best way to engage with the emerging technology ecosystem.
- Proactively managing regular interaction, communication and collaboration with external stakeholders.
- Mentor and upskill team members through training, playbooks and practical demonstrations.
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Skills
- Research and analysis skills including strong analytical reasoning, methodological thinking, ability to frame ambiguous problems and intellectual curiosity.
- Demonstrable and applied expertise in modern cybersecurity concepts, threat landscapes and system architectures. Ability to interrogate vendor claims and assess technology robustness.
- Ability to translate technical concepts, trade-offs, risks and opportunities for audiences ranging from executive senior leaders through to technical specialists.
- Engaging and accurate written work suitable for advising and making recommendations to senior leaders, using your own intuition and judgement.
- Ability to work proactively - planning and organising your own work with reference to appropriate strategies, policies, processes and protocols.
- Commercial awareness and an aptitude for building relationships, nurturing opportunities and structuring mutually beneficial business partnerships.
- Excellent listening, facilitating and influencing skills, including influencing senior leaders and external stakeholders and negotiating to achieve desired outcomes.
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Qualifications
- Higher Education degree, or equivalent knowledge gained via work experience. (Essential)
Experience
- Innovation, startup, research or technology background, with a passion about emerging technology and some domain expertise or interest in technology policy.
- Experience with a range of research methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative), and an ability to critically assess this research to draw insightful conclusions and recommendations for the client, presented in an accessible and compelling narrative.
- Experience of working successfully through collaboration, contributing to the success of a delivery team.
- Evidence of building trust-based relationships with a wide range of senior internal and external stakeholders such as startups and corporate clients as well as understanding the practicalities of working in a small and growing company.
- A proven ability to be able to provide an outside-in perspective to clients with regards to emerging market needs, trends, opportunities and technologies of interest to explore.
Character
- Energised by solving problems.
- A passion for and understanding of emerging technologies (e.g. AI, quantum, biotechnology, cyber, IoT) and the innovative startups that exist in this space.
- Flexible when it comes to working within a matrix structure with changing organisational and operational requirements.
- Team player and motivated self-starter.
- Personal resilience and the ability to remain focused on the overall objective, responding to challenges in a calm and measured manner.
Other requirements
- This role may require some national travel for delivery of projects and travel to all Plexal sites.
- Due to the nature of this position, our work, and our client engagements, you must hold valid SC or DV clearances.
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