.From: Bax & CompanyLocation: Barcelona, Spain with regular travel to North West Europe particularly NetherlandsOpen position: Innovation consultant with specific focus on innovating with and in the Creative IndustriesThe company: Bax & Company is a strategy consultancy firm specialized in innovation management, supporting clients across Europe in leveraging innovative technologies and concepts into real value and societal transitions.
We work for the three types of innovation actors, including industry (large corporations, high-tech smaller companies), academia (universities, RTos) as well as public authorities.
We support our clients by combining our knowledge, experience, methodology, and network with a powerful drive to turn vision into tangible strategies and projects in the complex world of partnering, emerging technologies, new market opportunities, and shifting policy frameworks.
We are specialized in a variety of focus areas allowing us to support our clients by leveraging deep content knowledge and specific sector networks.
Within those focus areas, we deliver a broad portfolio of consulting services spanning all stages of the innovation cycle, from mobilizing resources to develop (collaborative) R&D activities, to supporting the widespread adoption of innovative solutions and maximizing their impact.The position: We are currently offering a position as an innovation consultant with a focus on Creative Industries.
This sector is both undergoing deep innovation and re-invention, while also increasingly being leveraged to catalyze change and new ideas in interaction with other sectors of the economy and society.You will be working at our Barcelona headquarters with fellow team members taking responsibility for the execution and management of consultancy assignments.
You will be working in 2-3 small teams for several clients in parallel.
Given the substantial demand for our services in this area in North-West Europe (especially The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany) the position will involve regular travel to and short-term stays in these countries.The main tasks you will work on are related to the services we deliver, potentially including:Conceptualization and implementation of large scale innovation and transition initiatives (projects, networks, programs), often supported under EC innovation programmes (typically Horizon Europe and Interreg)Assessment of economic, environmental and societal impact of innovative pilots, defining future data collection and analysisBusiness modeling and definition of exploitation strategies to support the implementation of new solutions and services.We offer a compensation level that is fully competitive which includes a fixed and a variable component.
Our team furthermore enjoys a very positive and entrepreneurial company culture and respect for work-life balance