Manager - Innovation and Strategy Consulting

NOTE: THIS POSITION IS NOW CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS.

Overview

Company: Cambridge Future Tech
Location: Cambridge
Role (part-time / full time): Full-Time

• About Us

  We’re a deep tech venture studio and corporate innovation consultancy, helping some of the world’s largest organisations unlock strategic advantage by engaging with frontier science and technology.

  Our venture studio has been commercialising cutting edge science from UK and European research labs for the past four years and now builds eight new deep tech companies every year. Our consulting division leverages this research scouting, market validation, company building, and investing expertise to help industry giants discover emerging innovation, make sense of its impact, and launch their own science-backed strategic initiatives. We don’t just deliver PowerPoint, we deliver future capabilities, sustainability goals, and other transformative outcomes by building new companies, establishing commercial partnerships, collaborating with startups, and far more.

  More details can be found here: https://www.camfuturetech.com/consulting

• The Role

  This is an opportunity for you to be part of building something from the ground up. As a Manager at Cambridge Future Tech, you’ll play a pivotal role in scaling our consulting practice, defining how we work, delivering high-impact projects, shaping our future, and sharing in the success. You’ll lead projects end-to-end, structuring work, coordinating internal teams, and owning the quality of what we deliver to clients. You’ll help us to secure new business and new clients, accelerating our progress.

  This is a hands-on leadership role. While you’ll run engagements and coordinate other team members, you’ll also personally contribute to delivery, especially in the early stages as we scale.

• Key Responsibilities

  Lead & deliver impactful projects

  • Own & lead consulting projects from kickoff to final delivery

  • Translate complex and/or ambiguous briefs into structured workplans and clear deliverables; shape and deliver compelling narratives that link deep science to strategic impact

  • Build trusted relationships with clients and manage project communications and expectations across all levels, including with senior leadership

  Lead teams & collaboration

  • Coordinate interdisciplinary teams, which as we grow, will include individuals across technical, operational, commercial, and strategic roles

  • Drive project progress and pace; hold responsibility for deadlines and quality

  • Mentor and support team members, building an inclusive and empowering consulting team culture

  Hands-On Consulting & Delivery

  • Conduct commercial and strategic analysis to refine project direction and to develop client recommendations

  • Perform outreach and join external interviews with startups, researchers, industry leaders, and other domain experts

  • Shape and write deliverables including presentations, models and reports; share or own the delivery of project outputs to clients

  Build our Practice

  • Define and refine internal tools, frameworks, and ways of working

  • Track and report project costs; help to drive engagements that exceed client expectations and deliver profitable growth

  • Contribute to growing our capabilities, reputation, and evolution of our service offerings

  • Help to secure business from existing and new clients

  Flexibility and work-life balance is core to our culture at CFT, and we want all our colleagues to feel that their work is both exciting and long-term sustainable. As part of this, we offer the potential to work a mix of home and office in Cambridge (expected minimum 3 days per week). This role will require occasional travel, including to locations in the UK and overseas, in support of project delivery and related activities.

• About You

  You’re excited by the opportunity to work at the intersection between some of the world’s largest companies and breakthrough technologies, and want your work to have real world impact. You want your work to have real world impact. You want to have a stake in success and the agency to help shape it. You may thrive in this role if you:

  • Bring experience in strategy consulting, corporate innovation, or equivalent

  • Have led complex consulting projects and small teams in fast paced environments

  • Are an experienced communicator, able to effectively synthesise complex ideas for senior stakeholders

  • Are comfortable with a hands-on-role; enjoy analysing commercial, strategic, and market dynamics; enjoy rapidly building relationships with and interviewing external stakeholders

  • Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy proactively shaping your work

  • Bring bonus experience in science/tech – this is a plus but not required, we value transferable skills

• What We Offer

  • A chance to build: help us as we create a new kind of innovation consultancy

  • A share in the upside: with compensation linked to the performance of our efforts

  • Cutting-edge exposure: work with breakthrough science and frontier ventures

  • Purpose & impact: collaborate on partnerships that create tangible change at scale

  • Autonomy & ownership: join a close-knit team with real impact and low bureaucracy

Notes

Applications for this position have now closed, but we’re always interested in hearing from exceptional people. Get in touch via our expression of interest form, join our mailing list or contact us directly - we’d love to hear from you.