Corporate Relations Manager for ELEC

Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs across disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow, and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community of 14,000 students, 400 professors and 5,200 staff work on a vibrant, low carbon campus in Otaniemi, Espoo. Diversity, equity and inclusion are part of who we are, and we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.The Aalto School of Electrical Engineering (ELEC) promotes high-quality science, technology and innovations for the benefit of the Finnish society and humanity. In our research environment, natural sciences, engineering, and information technology intertwines to form smart systems and innovations that save energy and promote well-being. With our research, we seek to respond to many challenges posed by sustainable development and the results are applied, for example, in mobile devices, electrical networks, health care, and in satellites. School’s special strength is linking the research with the Finnish and international business sector. We enroll currently approximately 2000, and award around 250 master’s and 50 doctoral degrees annually. Our staff consists of over 700 individuals, including more than 70 professors.We are now looking for a Corporate Relations Manager for the School of Electrical Engineering (ELEC)Are you passionate about building impactful partnerships in research, education, and innovation? Join us to strengthen and grow the collaboration ecosystem around ELEC. Your role and goals: In this role you will support ELEC and its leadership team in their mission to systematically foster the mindset and engagement of professors and their research teams toward innovation and corporate cooperation activities. You will oversee at least one Aalto level strategic partnership, characterized by a long-term collaboration history and significant research collaboration volume. You will also support and grow other existing partnerships as a key account manager and prospect new partners. Your day-to-day job includes also onboarding new professors to corporate activities and helping academics in building research partner consortiums when applying for public research funding. You will be part of Aalto level Corporate Relations unit where your supervisor and colleagues support you in your daily activities. You will do daily work at ELEC where you work closely with ELEC’s leadership and research teams, other staff members, and external partners. ELEC gives you strategic and practical guidance, and you will report in matrix to the dean of ELEC. Your key responsibilities will be to: Drive partnership development, elevate existing industry collaborations and identify new partner companies across relevant sectors (e.g., electrical engineering, microelectronics, semiconductor, energy, automation,...