Are you ready to take the next step in your career and join a company that works with the newest innovations and ideas in a cross-functional team of experts with diverse backgrounds? Are you passionate about disruptive, world-changing innovations and co-creating new business opportunities that will shape the future? 

Who we are:

Spinverse is the Nordic leader in innovation consulting, helping customers grow and solve global challenges with innovations. We are committed to support customers to secure public funding, find partners for collaboration and make an impact with ground-breaking projects. We envision a strong Europe solving global problems. Our purpose is to bring companies towards that vision. Solving global challenges with innovations is at the heart of everything we do and believe in!

What you will do:

• Design and build project concepts together with the customer and Spinverse team
• Create large project entities, write project plans with business context and impact
• Assess technological, financial and business information and concepts
• Run multi-year, multi-party collaborative projects for our clients
• Communicate and build trust between project participants
• Establish and seek new business opportunities.

What we expect from you:

• 5+ years of working experience in a technical field (manufacturing & energy, chemicals, battery technologies or similar) and relevant academic background
• Experience in consulting work and consultative sales
• Experience in project management
• Strong interest towards industry, technological innovations, and their commercialisation 
• Excellent networking skills, ability to listen, observe and facilitate problem solving
• Ability to put things together and synthesize texts.

What you can expect from us

• A unique chance to develop and embrace your consultancy and project management skills in an encouraging and global work environment
• A front seat to participate in interesting projects developing groundbreaking technologies and innovations
• A growing team of 70+ professionals that provides you with the support you need to succeed
• Flexibility for remote working.

How to apply
Please submit your application letter and CV by 1st October 2021.

Feel free to contact Timo Ropponen, Director, Energy & Manufacturing team, tel. +358 50 588 0440 (available on 22.9.2021 at 14–15).

ABOUT SPINVERSE

Spinverse is the Nordic leader in innovation consulting, helping customers grow and solve global challenges with innovations. Our experts are committed to support customers to secure public funding, find partners for collaboration and make an impact with groundbreaking projects. Digitalisation and sustainability are driving the need for our customers to renew and grow through innovation. These customers range from the most disruptive large enterprises to smartest growth companies throughout Europe. www.spinverse.com

Contact person:

Timo Ropponen +358 50 588 0440

Spinverse is the Nordic leader in Innovation Consulting, specialized in creating open innovation ecosystems, funding, corporate renewal and boosting growth. We drive innovation in all key industries: health, electronics, ICT & security, circular bio-economy, manufacturing and energy to solve the major global challenges.

Our customers range from largest corporations to the smartest growth companies in the Nordic countries and other parts of Europe. We help our clients to manage innovation portfolios, build project plans, select partners, find funding and lead the projects. Together with our clients we build new businesses from €100 M upwards.

Spinverse employs some 50 international professionals at its offices in Finland, Sweden and Germany.

To increase our delivery capacity and client reach, we are looking for experienced freelancers around Europe. You will be involved in a wide range of consulting assignments, typically in the areas of Open Innovation, corporate renewal and growth.

Our value proposition for the freelance partners is a win-win relationship that allows the freelancer to:

1. better focus on assignments in their core areas of expertise and together win assignments that neither of the partners alone could sell or deliver;
2. increase the sales and the share of billable hours by leveraging the Spinverse brand as well as marketing and sales resources;
3. leverage Spinverse’s capacity of delivery support and administration to reduce the time spent on supplementary activities.

We are looking for different freelancers for a variety of roles, including:

1. Bid writing expert, with successful track record in national and EU funding instruments and proposal preparation;
2. Multi-party program and ecosystem expert, with good project work and management skills in certain industries or across industry boundaries;
3. Customer relationship guru, capable to act as the interface between the client and Spinverse’s program execution team.

Relevant Competencies:

• M.Sc. or D.Sc., for example in engineering, industrial management, economics or natural sciences
• Excellent writing and presentation skills in English (especially technology-related), other European languages are a plus
• Business and / or industrial experience especially within bio-refining, ICT (e.g. 5G, cyber security, FinTech, AI/ML, BigData) or Industry 4.0 (e.g. digital twins, sensors, data analytics) sectors as well as private fundraising and public funding applications (National/EU instruments)
• Understanding of business cultures of entrepreneurs, corporate executives, scientists etc.
• Good social skills and ability to interact with customers and project stakeholders in a client-oriented way
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to challenge the customers
• Prioritization capability and attention to detail

To express your interest in the freelancer relationship, please send your LinkedIn Profile URL or resume, cover letter (max 500 words) with an indication of your typical daily rates in relevant projects. We would also appreciate you to fill in the Freelancer Profile sheet for matching experts to client assignments. We will be contacting you as soon as we have reviewed your proposal.

Contact person:

Mikko J. Salminen +358 50 387 0007