Public Funding Manager

Public Funding Manager

Phlair

Munich, Germany

Your Mission at Phlair

You are part of the commercial team and are responsible for identifying and securing new grant initiatives and leading existing consortia with blue-chip customers and industrial partners. You act as the central interface between customers, projects, finance, and engineering.

• Own and execute Phlair’s public funding strategy, translating company milestones into a clear pipeline of partnerships, and funded projects. You own the strategy, roadmap, and execution;
• Grant administration, application and reporting: prepare, review and submit reports for various public funding projects, manage scope and change requests;
• Project coordination: set-up and track milestones and deliverables, cost allocation, resource planning and secure compliance across projects;
• Stakeholder communication: coordinate with technical work streams, finance work streams and external stakeholders to execute smooth reporting;
• Support in RFPs and wider commercial, customer-facing efforts.

What You Bring to the Team

• A BSc or MSc in a STEM or business-related field, with exposure to technology and engineering topics;
• Early experience in commercial roles such as business development or sales, ideally in deep tech or the energy sector, with a strong preference for fast-paced startup and scale-up environments;
• Strong understanding of funding regulations, compliance requirements and reporting obligations;
• Strong interest in climate policy and regulatory frameworks and how they translate into demand, budgets, and purchasing decisions for climate technologies;
• Strong communication skills in German and English, both written and spoken.

Essential Traits

• Proven ability to deeply understand customer problems, build trust at senior level, and translate complex technical concepts into clear, credible value propositions;
• Solid technical grounding, with a basic understanding of engineering, ideally process engineering and chemistry, and the ability to bridge technical and commercial discussions;
• Strong sense of end-to-end ownership, with the judgment to decide what is worth pursuing and what is not.