Business Development Manager - Biotech CDMO

Newton Colmore; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotechnology company in Cambridge is seeking a Business Development Manager to drive its commercial goals. The role requires a blend of hands-on experience in biotechnology and business development skills, focusing on client engagement and project leadership. The ideal candidate will have a robust scientific background, with a strong emphasis on biomanufacturing and cellular agriculture. This position offers significant autonomy and opportunities for career advancement.

Benefits

Excellent training and development

Profit sharing

State-of-the-art labs and workspaces

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in the biotechnology sector, especially in biomanufacturing or synthetic biology.
• Experience in business development in a commercial setting.
• Ability to communicate technical needs effectively to internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive new commercial goals and strategies.
• Develop business plans for biotechnology products and services.
• Lead consultative conversations with clients.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Scientific background in biotechnology

Consultative selling skills

Education

Degree in Biological Sciences or related field

Job description

Business Development Manager – Biotech CDMO

A market leading biotech CDMO in Cambridge is actively looking for a Business Development Manager to drive new commercial goals and strategies.

Working as the face of the business, your responsibilities will include working out the best business development plans for products and services that combine biology and engineering, executing those plans, having consultative conversations with new clients and leading obtained projects. With these duties you will need to have a hands‑on scientific background in the biotechnology sector, ideally within biomanufacturing and/or synthetic biology.

You’ll be working with customers across the globe and often across multiple sites at once in this expansive role. It will be your responsibility to translate the needs of the customer and to relay this information to key people within the business.

This role is ideal for a commercial‑minded scientist who has both hands‑on research experience and business development experience.

This is a key role for the company, and you will be afforded the autonomy to really make this role your own. This autonomy will come with guidance from senior people in the organisation and there will be a defined career path for you to follow.

The company offers market‑leading, tailored packages to secure the right people for their roles. This is coupled with excellent training and development, profit sharing and state‑of‑the‑art labs and workspaces for their scientists.

We are open to people who are already in a senior role and people looking to take a step up in responsibility.

The client is ideally looking for people who have experience within cellular agriculture, bio‑based chemical manufacturing, or more generally, biomanufacturing.