Over the last two years ICOMAT has run 15+ grant applications. We are now scaling that engine. You will own it end-to-end.

This role exists to do two things at once. First, find and build the partnerships that put ICOMAT into the most important consortia in European advanced manufacturing, aerospace, defence, automotive and space. Second, run the grants machine that turns those relationships into funded programmes that move our technology, our customers and our roadmap forward.

• Partner and consortium development. Identify, qualify and convert new partners across primes, Tier 1s, RTOs, universities and SMEs. Build consortia where ICOMAT leads, and consortia where ICOMAT is the partner of choice.

• Proposal writing and submission. Lead the writing with your team. Own the narrative, the technical case, the market sizing, the costs, the work breakdown, the risk register, and the submission.

• Internal orchestration. Pull in the right senior people from Engineering, Design, Operations and Commercial. Make sure they know what is needed, by when, and at what quality. Hit every deadline.

• Programme governance. After award, hold accountability for any programme that brings ICOMAT funding. Reporting, milestones, claims, partner coordination, audit readiness.

• Ecosystem visibility. Represent ICOMAT at the right tables: cluster bodies, trade missions, consortium meetings, EU/UK funding events. Build the relationships before the call opens, not after.

• Map the European and UK funding landscape against our technology and commercial priorities, and turn it into a quarterly funding plan signed off by the executive.

• Open new doors. Meet new businesses, primes, RTOs and SMEs across the UK and Europe to qualify them as potential consortium partners or co applicants.

• Lead bid kick offs internally. Set the win theme, the work breakdown, the resource asks, the timeline and the named owners across every internal team.

• Draft and own the proposal end to end with the support of your team. Technical narrative, innovation case, market and impact, costings, partner descriptions, risk register, project plan, exec summary.

• Coordinate senior stakeholders across Engineering, Design, Operations, Finance and Commercial so that every input lands on time and at the standard the bid needs.

• Manage post award reporting and partner coordination on funded programmes. Make sure milestones land, claims go in, and partners stay aligned.

• Track scoring feedback, win and loss patterns, and turn them into a sharper playbook each quarter.

• Work shoulder to shoulder with Business Development to ensure grant funded programmes feed and accelerate the commercial pipeline, not run parallel to it.
  

• A strong track record with European and UK grants. ou have written, won and delivered funded programmes.

• Outstanding research skills. Meticulous, structured, fast. You can read a 60 page call document and have a sharp view of fit and win probability the same day.

• A consortium builder’s instinct. You map ecosystems quickly, find the right partners, and broker the conversations that get them on the bid.

• Senior stakeholder management at pace. You can pull an Operations Director and a Head of Manufacturing into the same room, set a deadline, and have the work in your inbox on time.

• Excellent writing. Clear, precise, persuasive. Technical when it needs to be, commercial when it needs to be.

• Mobility across UK and Europe. Comfortable travelling for partner meetings, consortium workshops and funding events.

Nice to have:

• Discipline over excuses. We commit. We follow through. We hold ourselves and each other to the highest standard, especially when the pressure is on.

• Push the edge. iCOMAT was built on a refusal to accept that curved fiber could not be manufactured at scale. We innovate where others hesitate.

• Aligned and accountable. Everyone owns their lane, communicates openly, and delivers without being chased. No silos. No ambiguity.

Why iCOMAT?