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Salary range: £47, 389 - £58, 255

FTE: 1 

Term: Open-ended

Closing Date: 07 September 2025

Location: NMIS, Renfrew 

Shape the Future of Manufacturing – Join NMIS as a Senior Relationship Manager
The University of Strathclyde is a globally renowned technological institution with a proud history of driving business growth through groundbreaking research and innovation. At the forefront of this mission is the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)—a beacon for advanced manufacturing innovation that empowers businesses of all sizes to boost productivity, embrace digital transformation, and deliver on net-zero ambitions.

At NMIS, we don’t just transform industries—we help shape a more sustainable economy, nurture future-ready talent, and deliver meaningful impact. Our dynamic and diverse team collaborates closely with industry, academia, and the public sector to solve real-world challenges and inspire innovation in manufacturing.

We’re now seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Relationship Manager to play a critical role in managing and deepening strategic partnerships with some of our most significant industrial collaborators—typically major manufacturing and engineering organisations committed to innovation, R&D, and skills development.

In this outward-facing, high-impact role, you will lead a small, high-performing team dedicated to delivering exceptional value to NMIS’s priority industrial clients. You will own relationship and account strategies, champion customer satisfaction, identify new collaborative opportunities, and help shape and deliver complex commercial and R&D projects.

This role is ideal for someone with strong relationship-building skills, a strategic mindset, and a deep understanding of innovation within manufacturing and engineering.

What You’ll Do:

• Cultivate partnerships with strategically important industry partners: in Scotland, the UK, and globally.
• Work with, and be seen as a strategic partner to, cutting-edge businesses, helping them enhance their productivity, competitiveness, and innovation.
• Identify and shape collaborative R&D projects with industrial partners, to develop and deliver high-impact R&D and innovation projects in the manufacturing sector.
• Monitor customer satisfaction and proactively address challenges to ensure long-term, high-value partnerships.

What We Offer:

• A dynamic, mission-driven working environment supporting Scotland’s manufacturing transformation.
• Opportunities to work at the forefront of industrial innovation with world-class partners.
• Generous holiday entitlement and competitive pension contributions.
• Access to a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities, including leadership and technical training.
Join us in redefining what’s possible in manufacturing—apply today and help shape the future.

For further information about the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), please refer to www.nmis.scot.

For informal enquiries, please contact Steven Halliday, NMIS Head of Business Development & Strategy - steven.halliday@strath.ac.uk.
 
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Salary range: £37,694 - £46,049 per annum

FTE: 1 

Term: Open-ended

Closing Date: 07 September 2025

Location: NMIS’s facility in Aberdeen’s ETZ EnergyWorks

Shape the Future of Manufacturing in the North East – Join NMIS as a Business Development Executive

The University of Strathclyde is a world-class international technological institution with a proud history of driving business growth through cutting-edge research and innovation. At the heart of this mission is the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)—a beacon for advanced manufacturing innovation that empowers businesses of all sizes to accelerate productivity, adopt cutting-edge digital technologies, and achieve net-zero targets.

At NMIS, we are not just transforming industries—we are building a stronger, more sustainable economy, nurturing future-ready talent, and driving real-world impact. Our diverse, passionate team collaborates with industry leaders, academia, and the public sector to solve challenges, inspire innovation, and shape the next generation of manufacturing excellence.

We’re looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to play a pivotal role in building NMIS’s footprint in the North East of Scotland, based in the ETZ EnergyWorks facility. This new facility is due to open in November 2025, and is an opportunity for NMIS to play an active role in the transformation of the region, and the transition from oil and gas to sustainable energy. This is an opportunity to shape the future of manufacturing in the region through forging powerful partnerships and driving meaningful change.

What You’ll Do
• Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships with industry leaders, SMEs, scale-ups, academia, and public sector bodies in the North East of Scotland.
• Work with cutting-edge businesses to help identify how NMIS can help them enhance their productivity, competitiveness, and innovation.
• Lead the development and delivery of high-impact R&D and innovation projects in the manufacturing sector.
• Drive collaboration locally, and within Scotland’s Innovation community to accelerate industrial transformation.

What We’re Looking For
• A dynamic, proactive, and ambitious professional with a passion for business development and innovation.
• An ability to advocate with credibility and authority about NMIS’s technological capability.
• A track record of successfully building and managing industry partnerships.
• The ability to navigate complex business and innovation landscapes to drive tangible results.
• Knowledge about the Scottish and UK and EU manufacturing sector and funding landscape.

Why Join Us?
• You will be:
o Working in a vibrant, fast-paced environment at the forefront of technological innovation.
o Part of a mission-driven organisation that is making a real difference.
o Collaborating with some of the most influential players in manufacturing, engineering, and research.

For further information about the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), please refer to www.nmis.scot.

For informal enquiries, please contact Siobhan Campbell, Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer - siobhan.campbell@strath.ac.uk
 
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Salary range: £37,694 - £46,049 per annum 

FTE: 2

Term: Open-ended

Closing Date: 16 September 2025

Location: Renfrew

The University has been successful in attracting capital support for the establishment of the National Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Integration Centre (NASPIC), based within our new facility close to Glasgow Airport. The line is one of a kind as it has been designed to allow for a broad range of present and future devices. Its open access governance model is unique in Europe and very rare elsewhere. NASPIC will explore and develop disruptive packaging and integration technologies to make next-generation systems at lower cost and with more energy and packaging efficiency.

NMIS is seeking to appoint a motivated and skilled Process Engineer to support advanced semiconductor packaging and integration activities, with a focus on process manufacturing, assembly, and reliability for power electronics, photonics and advanced CMOS applications. As a key member of the engineering team, you will work under the guidance of the Principal Engineer and Senior Packaging Engineer to deliver high-quality process development, prototyping and scale-up projects. You will play a vital role in establishing robust back-end processes, ensuring technical excellence and supporting the transition of packaging technologies from lab-scale innovation to pilot production.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Gladys Benghalia, Head of Programmes - Electrification Manufacturing, gladys.benghalia@strath.ac.uk