Senior Analyst (801099)

Salary Range: £47,389 - £58,225

FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)

Term: Open Contract

Closing date: 05/04/2026

The University of Strathclyde has a long history of working with industry to deliver strong business growth from access to

research and innovation expertise. The latest major initiative continuing to deliver on this track record is through the

National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).

As a magnet for innovation in advanced manufacturing, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) group of

specialist R&D centres, supports manufacturing, engineering and associated tech businesses of all sizes, to thrive

domestically and internationally through accelerating productivity, embracing new digital technologies and achieving net-

zero targets.

We turn smart ideas into reality and deliver ground-breaking research.

Coming from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, our passionate team works alongside industry, academia, and the public

sector to solve problems, train the workforce of the future and generate the creative ideas that will transform

manufacturing.

Ultimately, we are growing the economy, developing a vibrant and skilled talent pool and helping create prosperous,

sustainable communities.

As a member of the NMIS CTO group the Senior Analyst will support the development and delivery of NMIS’s

programmes ensuring that NMIS remains at the forefront on manufacturing innovation nationally and internationally

through leading the market and technology analysis supporting the strategic outlook. They will oversee the coordination

of the analysis activity required to deliver input for the sector and technology strategies working collaboratively with the

sector and technology champions, providing support to the vision, leadership and drive to ensure NMIS delivers

transformational capabilities to Scottish Technology Landscape in line with Industry needs, working with the wider HVM

Catapult network to deliver similar improvement across the UK. The NMIS senior analyst will support the CTO and

Deputy CTO to embed processes and promote a culture that will deliver a well-informed and bold research strategy

while celebrating the NMIS technical community.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for a senior analyst to support acceleration of digital manufacturing innovation and

industrial application across a wide range of manufacturing technologies, many of which are currently failing to change at a

pace that will allow them to remain globally competitive or even survive.

This role will require candidates who have the right blend of technical understanding, strategic vision, people skills and

business acumen to deliver programme commitments and achieve the impact expected from our government, academic

and industrial stakeholders.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Coreen McCubbin, Chief Technology Officer([email protected])

Formal interviews for this post will be held on a date to be confirmed.