Alien Technology Transfer empowers top-class innovators to transform visionary product concepts into commercial realities. We do this by helping companies with concrete growth ambitions to secure funding for their product development through our innovation consulting expertise. To date, we have raised more than $700 million for our clients - Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) - across many domains, including agri-tech, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, clean-tech, cyber-security, quantum computing, space, and transport.
We are seeking an entrepreneurial and analytical Senior Innovation Consultant to join our hub in Las Palmas to support the operational roll-out and execution of a new, high-growth business line currently in active development. In this role, you will step beyond traditional grant schemes to shape, deliver, and scale our next generation of innovation consulting services. You will combine deep scientific acumen with advanced grant preparation capabilities to structure complex funding and commercialization strategies for international deep-tech clients.
Working in close collaboration with leadership, you will lead the end-to-end design and submission of high-value proposals under this new service offering, define delivery frameworks, interface directly with C-level client stakeholders, and help build the methodologies that will define this strategic division.
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Hybrid Work Modality: Monday to Thursday at the Office (Las Canteras area) and Friday Work from Home
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Service Delivery & Proposal Architecture: Lead the technical, commercial, and financial drafting of high-impact funding and strategic project proposals tailored to the newly established business unit.
- Deep-Tech & Commercial Due Diligence: Perform in-depth assessments of emerging technologies, commercial feasibility, IP positioning, regulatory pathways, and market dynamics to build bulletproof business cases.
- Project Roadmap & Financial Modeling: Engineer comprehensive execution plans, including multi-year GANTT schedules, risk mitigation matrices, work package structures, and detailed project cost/budget models.
- Strategic Client Management: Serve as the primary strategic interlocutor for client founders, Chief Technology Officers, and Lead Scientists, driving strategic alignment workshops, technical deep-dives, and milestone reviews.
- Practice Building & Mentorship: Guide, train, and review the work of junior consultants as the team scales, upholding scientific rigor and narrative quality across all project deliverables.
- Funding Landscape Intelligence & Opportunity Selection: Continuously monitor and analyse the international public and private funding landscape (e.g. EU, US federal, national and regional programmes, and blended or co-investment instruments). Assess emerging schemes against the profiles, technology readiness levels and growth ambitions of our target clients, and recommend which opportunities the company should pursue, with clear rationale on eligibility, competitiveness, funding size and strategic fit.
- Internal Training & Knowledge Transfer: Design and deliver training for internal teams on newly identified funding opportunities, their evaluation criteria and the best approaches to positioning clients for them. Maintain up-to-date guidance materials so this knowledge is shared and applied consistently across the company.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Education: Master's Degree required (PhD preferred) in a STEM field, including:
- Life Sciences: Bioengineering, Biomedical, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Biology, Botany, Zoology, Neurosciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related disciplines.
- Engineering: Electronics, Mechanical, Industrial, Medical, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Physics, Materials Science, or related disciplines.
Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in grant writing and innovation consulting, with a proven track record of securing funding across competitive funding schemes.
Languages: Full professional proficiency in English (both spoken and written).
Skills: Exceptional written communication and technical report writing skills.
Please note: Due to the high volume of candidates, we are unfortunately unable to provide individual feedback regarding the outcome of every single application.