{"data":{"id":118125,"slug":"affarsradgivare-life-science-karolinska-institutet-innovation","type":"job","title":"Business Advisor \u2013 Life Science, Karolinska Institutet Innovation","description":"Karolinska Institutet Innovation is an independent organization wholly owned by Karolinska Institutet, with the mission to transform world-leading research into real businesses and societal value. They are located in the heart of Hagastaden on Campus Solna, one of Europe's fastest-growing Life Science clusters, with close connections to Karolinska University Hospital, SciLifeLab, and a broad network of investors and industry partners.\nThey work across the entire innovation chain: from identifying and validating early-stage ideas in their Innovation Lab, to building and strengthening companies in their Incubator, to connecting start-ups with capital and the right partners. KI Innovation is not a passive support structure but a proactive actor working closely with researchers and founders to transform promising science into attractive, investable, and sustainable businesses.\nThe organization is currently recruiting two roles; a Business Advisor \u2013 Life Science and a Senior Business Advisor \u2013 Medtech (see separate job posting for more information).\nAbout the Role\nAs a Business Advisor, you work closely with researchers, entrepreneurs, and early-stage startups on their journey from idea to sustainable business. In practice, this means you will meet researchers and founders at a very early stage, where you are responsible for making an initial assessment of uniqueness and market potential to ensure viability, ownership, patents, etc. You are an operational force in the early phase and help the team structure their thinking, understand their market, and take the next concrete step.\nYou work with an established methodology and concrete tools within customer discovery, market analysis, risk assessment, and business modeling, and contribute to companies actually starting to work with their business, not just their technology. The role is varied, autonomous, and requires the ability to juggle multiple projects at once. You are responsible for your own early-stage cases and work in close collaboration with the team's other business advisors and report to the CEO. Your colleagues bring broad experience as well as complementary specialist knowledge. The pace is sometimes high, projects are numerous, and there is a fantastic sense of contributing to real value creation.\nYour responsibilities:\nCoach and support researchers, entrepreneurs, and early-stage projects.\n\n\nContribute to the evaluation of ideas, projects, and companies.\n\n\nFollow up on progress and help identify the next steps in development.\n\n\nActively contribute to and support business development work in customer insights, business models, and market analysis.\n\n\nParticipate in and lead workshops, programs, and training initiatives.\nAbout Your Profile\nThis role is suited for someone with at least a couple of years of experience from the private Life Science sector, preferably in business development or product development, and with an academic degree in a relevant field. You thrive at the intersection of science and business and are driven by seeing ideas develop into profitable operations.\nYou are action-oriented and experienced at managing multiple parallel assignments. You don't need to have all the answers, but you are curious and inquisitive and therefore find the answers needed to move forward. You are flexible, meet people where they are, and adapt to what each situation requires. The most important thing is that you take ownership of your tasks and drive them forward. You are never alone\u2014you have colleagues to bounce ideas off and an accessible manager\u2014but you are expected to be self-driven and find your way forward even when facing obstacles.\nQualifications:\nAt least 5 years of relevant work experience from the private Life Science sector, for example in business development and\/or product development (R&D).\n\n\nAcademic degree in Life Science, preferably with research experience.\n\n\nAbility to quickly grasp new technologies and business situations.\n\n\nSelf-driven, action-oriented, and experienced at managing parallel assignments.\n\n\nFluent Swedish and English in both speech and writing.\nDesirable Qualifications:\nTechnical or scientific expertise in diagnostics, medtech, healthtech, or labtech.\n\n\nExperience with international business or international collaboration.\n\n\nKnowledge of intellectual property rights, patents, and the patent system.\n\n\nRegulatory expertise in Life Science.\n\n\nExpertise in AI and data-driven solutions.\n\n\nExperience from a startup environment.\n\n\nDoctorate (PhD) in Life Science.\nWhy KI Innovation?\nHere you meet one of the world's strongest research environments and get to put it into practice. The organization is flat with short decision-making paths and a high degree of independence. Each business advisor works with their own portfolio responsibility but collaborates closely with colleagues and shares tools, frameworks, and experiences.\nThe culture at KI Innovation is open and down-to-earth. People help each other here, and it is perfectly okay not to have all the answers. At the same time, the pace is high and people are genuinely engaged in what they do. It is an unusual combination of deep academic knowledge and practical business experience, and you notice this blend in your daily work. Here you make a real difference, one company at a time.\nApplication\nDoes this role sound like you? Submit your CV and a brief description of why you are interested in this opportunity. Interviews will be conducted in August.\nFor questions about the role or the process, please contact Sandra Bydell Sveder at sandra.sveder@sallyq.se or +46 73 199 96 88.","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Aff\u00e4rsr\u00e5dgivare \u2013 Life Science, Karolinska Institutet Innovation","description_original":"Karolinska Institutet Innovation \u00e4r en frist\u00e5ende organisation hel\u00e4gd av Karolinska Institutet, med uppdrag att omvandla v\u00e4rldsledande forskning till verkliga aff\u00e4rer och samh\u00e4llsnytta. De har sitt kontor mitt i Hagastaden p\u00e5 Campus Solna, ett av Europas snabbast v\u00e4xande Life Science-kluster, med n\u00e4ra koppling till Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, SciLifeLab och ett brett n\u00e4tverk av investerare och industripartners.\nDe arbetar med hela innovationskedjan: fr\u00e5n att identifiera och validera tidiga id\u00e9er i deras Innovation Lab, till att bygga och st\u00e4rka bolag i deras Inkubator, till att koppla samman start-ups med kapital och r\u00e4tt partners. KI Innovation \u00e4r inte en passiv st\u00f6dstruktur utan en proaktiv akt\u00f6r som arbetar t\u00e4tt med forskare och grundare f\u00f6r att omvandla lovande vetenskap till attraktiva, investerbara och h\u00e5llbara verksamheter.\nVerksamheten rekryterar just nu tv\u00e5 roller; en Aff\u00e4rsr\u00e5dgivare \u2013 Life Science och en Senior Aff\u00e4rsr\u00e5dgivare \u2013 Medtech (se separata annons f\u00f6r mer information).\nOm rollen\nSom Aff\u00e4rsr\u00e5dgivare arbetar du n\u00e4ra forskare, entrepren\u00f6rer och tidiga startups i deras resa fr\u00e5n id\u00e9 till h\u00e5llbar aff\u00e4r. I praktiken inneb\u00e4r det att du kommer tr\u00e4ffa forskare och grundare i ett v\u00e4ldigt tidigt skede d\u00e4r du ansvarar f\u00f6r att g\u00f6ra en f\u00f6rsta bed\u00f6mning av unikitet och marknad f\u00f6r att s\u00e4kerst\u00e4lla potential, \u00e4gandeskap, patent etc. Du \u00e4r en operativ kraft i den tidiga fasen och hj\u00e4lper teamet att strukturera sitt t\u00e4nkande, f\u00f6rst\u00e5 sin marknad och ta n\u00e4sta konkreta steg.\nDu jobbar med ett etablerat arbetss\u00e4tt och konkreta verktyg inom customer discovery, marknadsanalys, riskbed\u00f6mning och aff\u00e4rsmodellering, och bidrar till att bolagen faktiskt b\u00f6rjar arbeta med sin aff\u00e4r, inte bara sin teknologi. Rollen \u00e4r omv\u00e4xlande, sj\u00e4lvg\u00e5ende och kr\u00e4ver f\u00f6rm\u00e5gan att h\u00e5lla m\u00e5nga bollar i luften samtidigt. Du ansvarar f\u00f6r egna case i tidig fas och jobbar i n\u00e4ra samarbete med teamets \u00f6vriga aff\u00e4rsr\u00e5dgivare och rapporterar till VD. Dina kollegor har en erfarenhetsbredd men ocks\u00e5 kompletterande specialistkunskap. Arbetstempot \u00e4r stundom h\u00f6gt, projekten m\u00e5nga och det finns en fantastisk k\u00e4nsla av att bidra till att v\u00e4rde skapas p\u00e5 riktigt.\nDina arbetsuppgifter:\nCoacha och st\u00f6tta forskare, entrepren\u00f6rer och projekt i tidig fas.\n\n\nBidra i utv\u00e4rdering av id\u00e9er, projekt och bolag.\n\n\nF\u00f6lja upp framdrift och hj\u00e4lpa till att identifiera n\u00e4sta steg i utvecklingen.\n\n\nAktivit bidra och st\u00f6tta aff\u00e4rsutvecklingsarbete inom kundinsikter, aff\u00e4rsmodell och marknad.\n\n\nMedverka i och leda workshops, program och utbildningsinsatser.\n\nOm profil\nRollen passar dig som har minst ett par \u00e5rs erfarenhet fr\u00e5n den privata Life Science-sektorn, g\u00e4rna inom aff\u00e4rsutveckling eller produktutveckling, och med en akademisk examen inom ett relevant omr\u00e5de. Du trivs i gr\u00e4nslandet mellan vetenskap och aff\u00e4rer och drivs av att se id\u00e9er ta form l\u00f6nsamma verksamheter.\nDu \u00e4r handlingsorienterad och van vid att hantera flera parallella uppdrag. Du beh\u00f6ver inte ha alla svar, men du \u00e4r nyfiken och vetgirig och hittar d\u00e4rf\u00f6r de svar som kr\u00e4vs f\u00f6r att ta sig vidare. Du \u00e4r flexibel, m\u00f6ter m\u00e4nniskor d\u00e4r de \u00e4r och anpassar sig efter vad varje situation kr\u00e4ver. Det viktigaste \u00e4r att du tar \u00e4gandeskap om dina arbetsuppgifter och driver dem fram\u00e5t. Du \u00e4r aldrig ensam utan har kollegor att bolla med och en chef som \u00e4r tillg\u00e4nglig, men du f\u00f6rv\u00e4ntas vara sj\u00e4lvg\u00e5ende och hitta v\u00e4gen fram\u00e5t \u00e4ven n\u00e4r du st\u00f6ter p\u00e5 hinder.\nKvalifikationer:\nMinst 5 \u00e5rs relevant arbetslivserfarenhet fr\u00e5n den privata Life Science-sektorn, t.ex. inom aff\u00e4rsutveckling och\/eller produktutveckling (R&D).\n\n\nAkademisk examen inom Life Science, g\u00e4rna med forskningserfarenhet.\n\n\nF\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att snabbt s\u00e4tta dig in i nya teknologier och aff\u00e4rssituationer.\n\n\nSj\u00e4lvg\u00e5ende, handlingsorienterad och van vid att hantera parallella uppdrag.\n\n\nFlytande svenska och engelska i b\u00e5de tal och skrift.\n\nMeriterande:\nTeknisk eller vetenskaplig spetskompetens inom diagnostik, medtech, healthtech eller labtech.\n\n\nErfarenhet av internationella aff\u00e4rer eller internationellt samarbete.\n\n\nKunskaper om immateriella r\u00e4ttigheter, patent och patentsystemet.\n\n\nRegulatorisk kompetens inom Life Science.\n\n\nKompetens inom AI och datadrivna l\u00f6sningar.\n\n\nErfarenhet fr\u00e5n startupmilj\u00f6.\n\n\nDoktorsexamen (PhD) inom Life Science.\n\nVarf\u00f6r KI Innovation?\nH\u00e4r m\u00f6ter du en av v\u00e4rldens starkaste forskningsmilj\u00f6er och f\u00e5r vara med och oms\u00e4tta den i praktiken. Organisationen \u00e4r platt med kort beslutsv\u00e4g och h\u00f6g grad av sj\u00e4lvst\u00e4ndighet. Varje aff\u00e4rsr\u00e5dgivare arbetar med ett eget portf\u00f6ljansvar men samarbetar t\u00e4tt med kollegor och delar verktyg, ramverk och erfarenheter.\nKulturen p\u00e5 KI Innovation \u00e4r \u00f6ppen och jordn\u00e4ra. H\u00e4r hj\u00e4lper man varandra och det \u00e4r helt okej att inte ha alla svar. Samtidigt \u00e4r tempot h\u00f6gt och folk \u00e4r genuint engagerade i det de g\u00f6r. Det \u00e4r en ovanlig kombination av djup akademisk kunskap och praktisk aff\u00e4rserfarenhet, och den blandningen m\u00e4rks i vardagen. H\u00e4r g\u00f6r du skillnad p\u00e5 riktigt, ett bolag i taget.\nAns\u00f6kan\nL\u00e5ter den h\u00e4r rollen som dig? Skicka in ditt CV och en kort beskrivning av varf\u00f6r just du \u00e4r intresserad av den h\u00e4r m\u00f6jligheten. 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