Digital Health Business Development Manager

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The opportunity

• ​​​​​​Join CSIRO - Australia's National Science and Innovation Agency
• Lead early-stage partnerships to drive market-ready digital health innovations
• Align stakeholders and scale opportunities for greater impact and revenue

CSIRO is seeking a Digital Health Business Development Manager to join the Partnerships & Business Development (P&BD) team. In this role, you’ll work closely with researchers to guide the planning, evaluation, and validation of research opportunities, identifying the best pathways to market, business models, and key partners to engage for impact. 

You’ll lead early-stage partnering discussions, align stakeholder interests, and help scale opportunities by leveraging internal and external capabilities. The role supports both specific Research Units and broader cross-organisational initiatives, contributing to significant impact and revenue growth. 

Your duties will include:

• Actively contribute to influence and implement a P&BD strategy that drives impactful innovation and science.
  
• Through confident guidance, articulate the value of early engagement with partners to optimise the scope, scale, business model, and impact of research partnerships up to the level of ecosystem coalitions, in a way that crosses CSIRO boundaries and empowers the P&BD team and wider organisation
  
• Acting with the broad scope of digital health, partner with researchers across boundaries to grow the scale of CSIRO’s partnering and business development activities including research partnerships with universities, industry and government up to enterprise level coalitions. 
  
• Represent CSIRO in engagements with relevant stakeholders and engage strategically with priority industry and government relationships.
  
• Working collaboratively with Research and Enterprise Unit colleagues, ensure optimised business and commercial outcomes are negotiated and managed for all relationships, including strategic partnerships and stakeholder engagement.
  
• Undertake activities that successfully support project ideation, development and execution.
  
• Implement programs and initiatives to improve how CSIRO engages with relevant stakeholders, industry, universities, and the broader innovation community.

Location: All AU CSIRO Sites in Major Cities will be considered

Salary: AU$131,113 - AU$153,639 plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Indefinite

Reference: 99613

To be considered you will need:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience in a relevant science area relevant to digital health, and/ or with business and commercial qualifications. 
  
• Demonstrated business acumen, including in the functioning of publicly funded research organisations, and negotiating successful multi-stakeholder partnerships with industry, government, and other research institutions.
  
• Demonstrated business development experience in digital health technologies, including digital health and genomics for human and/or animal health applications.
  
• Demonstrated experience in commercialisation of digital health technologies for human and/or animal applications, including how industry and/or governments (large and small) adopt technology, and commercialisation pathways including licensing and venture creation.
  
• Demonstrated understanding, networking, and engagement with the Australian health sector including the digital health technologies ecosystem.
  
• Demonstrated experience in supporting funding applications to Australian research and development agencies or the private sector for digital health and/or genomics research projects.
  
• A demonstrated history of professional and respectful behaviours and attitudes aligned to CSIRO values in a complex working environment with both internal and external clients/partners and colleagues that encourages new ideas, builds trust and supports the development of beneficial outcomes.
  
• Strong relationship management skills and the demonstrated ability to use complex influencing strategies, to advise and support colleagues, internal & external stakeholders to achieve CSIRO’s strategic objectives.
  
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, including experience working with a broad range of stakeholders, and science, commercial or engineering staff and a proven ability to work with and influence outcomes across all levels in an organisation.
  
  

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents, Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Flexible working arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. 

Diversity and inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish. 

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact. 

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications close

 16 July 2025 11:00pm AEDT