Industrial Relations Officer

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has around 44 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.


Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.




Industrial Relations Office
The industrial relations team is responsible for the MAX IV activities towards industry.

We are assisting industrial users and are actively promoting the facility towards different industry sectors together with our collaboration partners, such as universities, mediator companies and institutes. We are a team of four persons working closely with the User Office, the beamline scientists, management, and our external partners to create value for industry through the tools available at MAX IV.

 

MAX IV is looking for an Industrial Relations Officer that will take part in developing and driving the industrial user program at MAX IV. 

We are developing our internal services as well as a strong network of partnerships that will help us guide Swedish and international companies to the experimental capabilities at MAX IV, including academic research groups and centers, mediator companies and research institutes. We are engaging industry both directly through our offers at MAX IV and through external activities towards all relevant industry sectors in the Nordics. We are currently strengthening our activities within the life science sectors with this new position.


Your main work tasks will be

- Coordinate and drive our life science activities within the industrial relations office and identify and engage in strategic collaborations
- Work with Swedish and Nordic stakeholders to create an ‘ecosystem’ of academic and commercial partners around MAX IV to provide industry with an easy and high-quality access to synchrotron-based methods
- Guide potential customers to the right techniques and support them during their journey at MAX IV
- Develop new offers and business models for industrial use at MAX IV together with the beamline teams and our industrial user community
- Take active part in developing and driving the work within the industrial relations team


To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications

- You have a solid scientific background with a Ph.D. degree, and a research background within life science/soft matter/biotechnology/food science.
- You have first-hand experience using synchrotron light techniques.
- You can express yourself freely in both spoken and written English.
- You can speak Swedish


Below are seen as merits

- You have a background from an industrial research group or from an academic research environment with extensive industrial collaborations.
- Experience from working with research funding organizations and writing applications
- Strong interest in public science communication
- Existing network within science communities


As a person you are an outgoing and socially skilled person with a keen interest to guide companies in their effort to solve R&D challenges with the help of the advanced research tools available at MAX IV. You have strong communication and interpersonal skills thus are capable of establishing trustworthy relations and create the necessary partnerships.



What we offer
When you join our MAX IV family, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientist from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!

For further information, please visit:
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university
https://sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careerjobs/comp_and_benefits/

 

Probationary period may apply.

On call services may apply in the future.



MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Fully developed it will receive more than 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

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