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.
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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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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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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.
At Connected Places Catapult, we are on a mission to create better connected places across the UK and beyond. We believe that innovation is the key to unlocking the potential of our towns, cities, and transport systems, making them more sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous for everyone.
When connected places work, it benefits:
People: wellbeing, access and inclusion for everyone.
Planet: sustainable and increasingly regenerative living and moving.
Prosperity: prosperous local economies and trade.
From supporting SMEs to develop clean transport technologies to helping local authorities unlock innovation in public procurement, our work is making a tangible difference. We help businesses secure millions in investment, create jobs, and drive forward solutions that address climate change, social isolation, and economic inequality.
