Innovation to Market Manager | Innovation to Market Manager (m/f/d)
EIT Health
Job Summary
As an Innovation to Market Manager at EIT Health, you will lead the end-to-end lifecycle of high-impact funding programmes designed to accelerate healthcare solutions across Europe. Your day-to-day responsibilities include managing programme conceptualization, call design, project selection, and active portfolio management for a diverse ecosystem of start-ups and research institutions. You will serve as the primary contact for funded projects, monitoring their progress, addressing execution risks, and providing tailored advisory support to connect them with European ecosystem opportunities. This role is ideal for a proactive professional with a background in health technology and innovation management who enjoys cross-functional collaboration. The position offers a unique opportunity to work in a remote-first, agile environment at the forefront of European healthcare transformation, providing exposure to a vast network of senior industry influencers and the chance to contribute to projects of significant societal interest.
Required Skills
Education
Master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Health Economics, Innovation Management, or Biomedical Sciences.
Experience
- At least 5 years of professional experience in technology and innovation within a company, consultancy, fund, or public–private organization
- Proven experience in managing complex, multi-stakeholder programmes or initiatives
- Professional experience with product development and emerging technologies
- Experience with the European start-up and scale-up ecosystem
- Experience with grant funding and European research and innovation funding mechanisms is preferred
Languages
Additional
- Willingness and ability to travel within Europe approximately once per quarter. Must be located in Germany, France, Spain, or Poland for remote-first hiring.