Your Role
The Center for Biosolutions DTU is seeking a dynamic Innovation and Translation Manager to serve as a key driver of translational impact and operational ecosystem engagement. Working as a peer alongside the Head of Strategic Communications and Partnerships and reporting directly to the Center Director, you will translate DTU's scientific excellence into tangible innovation pathways, operationalize strategic relationships across sectors, and build the collaborative infrastructure that makes biosolutions actionable. This role combines internal coordination with hands-on external representation, requiring scientific literacy, entrepreneurial mindset, relationship execution, and translational storytelling. You will have domain ownership over innovation pathways, operational partnerships, and the day-to-day building of DTU’s biosolutions ecosystem—empowered to forge connections, demonstrate impact, and turn research breakthroughs into real-world outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Internal Coordination & Translational Strategy
Map and synthesize biosolutions-related activities across DTU to identify translational opportunities and external-facing strengths. Build internal bridges across DTU Bioengineering, DTU Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, DTU Food and DTU BRIGHT with DTU Science Park, DTU Skylab / Entrepreneurship, DTU Sustain, and other relevant departments to strengthen a shared biosolutions agenda. Translate complex scientific work into clear value propositions and innovation narratives that create alignment internally and resonate externally with industry, investors, and policymakers. Develop workflows, frameworks, and touchpoints that prepare DTU for coordinated engagement, fostering an internal culture that is confident, aligned, and outward-facing in line with the Center's mission.
Operational Partnerships & Ecosystem Building
Serve as a core outward-facing representative of DTU's biosolutions efforts, operationalizing strategic relationships through hands-on engagement with ministries and governmental actors (day-to-day level), industry clusters and companies, innovation hubs, and international partners. Build and nurture operational partnerships by proactively initiating conversations, facilitating collaborations, and connecting specific actors across industry, public bodies, academia, and innovation ecosystems. Act as a knowledgeable, approachable point of contact for external stakeholders navigating DTU and Denmark's biosolutions landscape. Create the network infrastructure that transforms strategic vision into active collaboration, strengthening Denmark's biosolutions identity internationally—particularly within the EU and the U.S.
Innovation Pathways & Impact Demonstration
Champion innovation pathways that transform biosolutions research into real-world outcomes through spinouts, scaleups, and industrial collaborations. Use startups and innovation cases as compelling proof points of DTU's biosolutions leadership, generating success stories that demonstrate tangible impact. Develop and deliver translational storytelling and stakeholder-specific messaging that makes scientific breakthroughs understandable, compelling, and actionable for targeted audiences. Ensure the Center's efforts embrace the principle of "start with the end in mind," creating innovation outcomes that deliver meaningful societal impact and position DTU's leadership as widely recognized across Europe and globally.
Collaboration: This role works in close partnership with the Head of Strategic Communications and Partnerships, with clear domain ownership over innovation translation, operational partnerships, and ecosystem operationalization. Together, you will ensure DTU's biosolutions leadership is both strategically positioned and tangibly demonstrated through real-world impact.
Our expectations of you
What we offer in return
We offer an interesting and challenging job in an international atmosphere with the focus on innovation for the benefit of the surrounding community. We place emphasis on a high level of professionalism and skill development is an integral part of our organization. We offer a great flexibility in the position. In the area of technical and natural sciences, DTU is one of the leading research and education institutions in Europe.
Salary and appointment terms
Appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).
The position is a full-time and permanent position. Start date is 01.01.2026.
Application and contact
Please submit your online application no later than 16 December 2025
. Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form and attach your motivated application, CV and exam certificates.
If you would like additional information about the position, please contact Andreas Worberg at andwor@dtu.dk
Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.
Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.