DataSpaceLab Business Expert – Health & Future Industry - DVE – 22-month Fixed-Term Contract

Joining Mines Saint-Étienne means committing to an institution where science and innovation build a more sustainable future. An institution of excellence where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential and contribute to meeting the challenges of tomorrow.

Ranked among the best engineering schools in France and recognized worldwide, our school, a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, trains tomorrow's talents while actively contributing to meeting major industrial, digital, and environmental challenges. With us, you join a community of 500 employees, 2500 students, and participate in an ambitious project: combining academic excellence, cutting-edge research, and positive societal impact.

The Institut Mines-Télécom federates French Grandes Écoles around major industrial, digital, energy, and ecological challenges. With its 8 public Grandes Écoles and 2 subsidiary schools, it is the leading public institute dedicated to engineers and managers. Together, we imagine and build a sustainable future, training the actors who will shape the transitions of tomorrow.

🎯 Job Description - What We Expect From You

As a DataSpaceLab Business Expert, you are at the heart of our development, research, and innovation missions, attached to the Directorate of Development and Business Relations (DVE). You will combine partnership development, innovation, and societal impact in service of major industrial and health challenges.

The Data Space Lab is the operational component of the Gaia-X French Hub, the leading European initiative for data spaces and digital sovereignty, supported by the Institut Mines-Télécom.

At Mines Saint-Étienne, it is supported by the School's research centers and their areas of excellence: health engineering (CIS), future industry and microelectronics, materials and processes, energy and environment.

The challenge: to develop business data spaces to serve these sectors, primarily health and future industry, in conjunction with the industrial and territorial ecosystem.

This recruitment aims to provide Mines Saint-Étienne with a business expert capable of structuring, within the territory and in conjunction with the national Gaia-X ecosystem, use cases and demonstrators of data spaces, by leveraging the School's areas of excellence, primarily health and future industry.

• You will ensure the development and animation of the Data Space Lab in Saint-Étienne, by explaining Gaia-X and data spaces to companies (SMEs and ETIs), local authorities, and stakeholders in the region.

• You will participate in the setup of regional, national, and European projects (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, Bpifrance 'data spaces') with IMT teams and industrial and territorial partners.

• You will contribute to the specification of use cases and the emergence of concrete demonstrators of business data spaces, in Mines Saint-Étienne's areas of excellence — health and well-being (CIS), future industry, energy and environment, transport and logistics, as well as structuring and animating a partner ecosystem (events, IMT scientific communities, Caisse des Dépôts).

• You will report to the Development Director and work in close functional liaison with the two other sector development managers (IMT Atlantique and DG IMT) and the national coordinator of the Data Space Lab.

• Your ability to work in a project-based approach and to facilitate dialogue between research, industry, and territorial actors will be essential for success.

🔍 What We Are Looking For

You hold a:

· Master's degree (Bac + 5) or equivalent

And ideally:

· A degree from an engineering school or business school (Bac+5)

· With 3 to 5 years of experience in setting up collaborative projects or developing partnerships

· Junior candidates accepted: No (experienced profile preferred)

• Significant experience in setting up national and/or European collaborative projects

• Proven experience as a business developer or in sales development

• Demonstrated expertise in project management and coordination of stakeholder ecosystems

• Proficiency in English (C1 level) and excellent writing skills

Your additional assets:

• Knowledge of the academic ecosystem, competitiveness clusters, and industry

• Interest in data issues in one or more industrial sectors (health, future industry, energy, mobility…)

• Knowledge of IT and data management

📩 Apply Now!

Application Deadline: 11/05/2026

Start Date: 01/01/2027

🔗 Application files (CV, cover letter, letter of recommendation if applicable, ID) must be submitted on the RECRUITEE platform:

https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/une-experte-ou-un-expert-metier-dataspacelab-sante-industrie-du-futur-dve-cdd-22-mois

As part of its Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy, Mines Saint-Étienne is an employer committed to fair treatment of all applications.

Candidates selected after review of their application file will be interviewed in Saint-Étienne during November.

ℹ️ Additional Information:

· Public law fixed-term contract for 22 months

· Full-time

· Position based in Saint-Étienne at the École des Mines.

· Proposed salary range: €37,000 to €53,000 gross/year depending on profile -> Salary is determined based on the candidate's profile (profession, age, employment category, salary guarantee duration), in accordance with the rules defined by the Institut Mines Télécom management framework.

· Positions offered for recruitment are open to all, with, upon request, accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

· Position open to public servants and/or contractual employees

Any application may be subject to an administrative investigation.

For internal use:

o Category – Job Category: II G

o Category and professions of applicants: Cat II professions C, D, E, F, G H, I, P, R / Cat III professions J1, J2, K, L, M

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📞 Contacts:

· Regarding the job content:
Antoine LAVIGNOTTE – Development Director
Email:

· Regarding administrative/HR aspects:

Servane ARRES - HR Manager

Email:
Tel: +33 (0)4 42 61 66 12

🌍 Why Join Mines Saint-Étienne?

We support each of our employees on the path to excellence, with the conviction that together, we can have a lasting and significant impact on our world.

Joining Mines Saint-Étienne offers the opportunity to find:

· A stimulating environment: cutting-edge experimental resources, a strong international network (T.I.M.E., EULIST), and human-sized campuses within an urban setting.

· Real impact: contract research projects worth €11 million/year, primarily with industrial partners, a scientific culture center, La Rotonde, which has been involved in science outreach for 25 years, welcoming over 50,000 visitors/year.

· Incomparable quality of life: between 46 and 49 days of leave and RTT, partial remote work, 75% public transport reimbursement, financial support for carpooling and cycling, and a social barometer where 83% of employees praise the quality of work life.

Let's build a more sustainable future through science, engineering, and meaningful projects.

Useful links:

School:

https://www.mines-stetienne.fr/

IMT:

https://www.imt.fr/

Data protection:

https://www.mines-stetienne.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Informations-des-candidats-sur-les-traitements-de-donn%C3%A9es-personnelles.pdf

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