Marine New Ventures Director
Marine New Ventures Director
Advert close date: 5th October 2026
Purpose of Role: As Marine New Ventures Director, you will lead The Crown Estate’s efforts to identify, develop and commercialise new opportunities that create long-term value from the seabed and lead the commercial proposition for the Marine Delivery Routemap. Working across sectors and specialist teams, you will shape new ventures, products, and market opportunities that align with The Crown Estate’s strategic objectives and support sustainable growth.
In this role, you will develop and deliver Marine’s innovation and new venture development strategy, building a coherent pipeline of opportunities from concept through to implementation. You will work with sector, technical and digital teams to identify, assess and commercialise new opportunities and products, develop innovation leasing approaches and identify intellectual property and business models that create strategic, environmental and commercial value.
You will also play a key role in informing Marine’s investment strategy, developing market insight, horizon scanning emerging opportunities, and ensuring that promising ventures are prioritised, matured and progressed through the Marine Delivery Routemap and Strategic Delivery Plan.
Main accountabilities:
Develop and implement a business development and innovation plan that supports market creation, business scale-up, and technology leadership
Identify, evaluate and develop emerging opportunities, technologies and market propositions that could create future value from The Crown Estate’s Marine portfolio, including new sectors, business models, products and strategic partnerships
Sponsor and shape new leasing opportunities for marine innovation, creating proportionate routes to seabed access that support testing, demonstration and commercial scale-up
Identify, develop, and commercialise TCE’s marine IP from Marine Delivery Routemap, creating new revenue streams, working with colleagues in Planning & Technical and Digital
Use the Marine Delivery Routemap to identify, develop and prioritise commercial and investment opportunities for Marine, maintaining a coherent, strategically aligned pipeline of investable and deliverable propositions. This role leads the front-end opportunity thinking, working with sector and delivery teams to shape propositions before they move into delivery
Act as the focal point for coordinating new venture opportunities across Marine, connecting sector insight, innovation activity, investment priorities and delivery planning to maximise value and avoid duplication
Collaborate closely with internal teams to ensure alignment and avoid duplication with other strategic or operational roles
Most important skills based requirements:
Demonstrated experience in business development, venture development, innovation or market creation
Strong understanding of marine sectors, infrastructure, technology and policy development
Proven track record of developing and commercialising new opportunities, products or services
Experience building strategic partnerships and developing complex propositions involving multiple stakeholders
Proven ability to identify and assess emerging market opportunities
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, enabling impactful engagement
Experience developing investment cases and progressing opportunities from concept to implementation
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly.
- Department
- Marine
- Locations
- The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
Our Perks & Benefits
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28 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore, we offer everybody 28 days paid holiday, 2 volunteering days and the option to purchase further holiday.
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Flexible working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible & hybrid working policies.
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Market leading family friendly policies
We want the support we offer to be inclusive of everyone, reflective of the wide range of situations people face in life.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
It’s our ambition to be an inclusive organisation that reflects our society, one where all feel welcome, able to be themselves and belong.
A workplace where you’re empowered to be yourself, diverse thinking is encouraged, and a place where you can realise your potential.
About The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.