Director, Business Development (Europe, Comms)

Syneos Health, Inc.; Greater London; À distance; GBP 77 000 - 128 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Syneos Health Communications is seeking a Director of Business Development for Europe, with a focus on communications, medical affairs and public relations agencies. Remote location in Europe (Germany preferred) with international travel about 50% of the time.

You will identify new opportunities, manage key accounts across biotech, pharma and medical devices, and lead strategic outreach to grow the business across the UK, France and Germany.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or science-related field.
• Extensive BD experience with track record of sales success.
• Experience in an agency, medical publisher or relevant pharma service provider.
• Deep understanding of biopharmaceutical industry including commercial and medical affairs.
• Ability to work and travel internationally (primarily Europe and USA).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent in English and German; other major European language preferred.
• Experience developing and executing sales and prospecting strategies.
• Strategic mindset and thought leadership.

Responsabilités

• Identify opportunities within assigned accounts and prospect additional suitable companies.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of accounts, contacts, and Syneos Health footprint.
• Generate personalised outreach daily via email, phone, social, and events.
• Record outreach in CRM and report activity to BD leadership.
• Deliver engaging presentations in person or virtually, 1:1 or to groups.
• Build relationships across the commercial BD organisation for cross-selling.
• Position oneself as an industry thought leader through research and networking.

Connaissances

Sales experience

Strategic thinking

Effective communication

Multilingual English-German

Networking

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in business or science

Description du poste

Director, Business Development (Europe, Comms)

Updated: September 28, 2026
Location: Remote, Germany
Job ID:16345

As the Director, Business Development you will identify, grow and expand new business opportunities within an assigned list of biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device accounts for Syneos Health Communication’s creative, medical communications and public relations agencies located in Europe (primarily UK, France and Germany).

Reporting into the VP, Business Development, you are competitive, proactive, and passionate about business development. You display a hunter mindset and ability to think strategically about complex client organizations of all sizes to unlock new business opportunities in those accounts through strong prospecting skills coupled with deep seated curiosity and expertise. You will leverage your existing industry network combined with extensive understanding of the agency and wider healthcare industry landscape to identify client challenges that can be addressed by the unique solution set of our agency network.

This position can be located within commuting distance of one of our European office locations in London, Paris or Munich.

International travel is required 50% of the time to attend meetings at client offices, represent our agencies at industry events and attend internal meetings in our offices in Europe as well as the USA.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Performance in this role will impact Syneos Health Communication’s financial performance in three key elements:

1) Pipeline opportunity generation.

2) Converting identified opportunities into business in partnership with the Growth (conversion) team and internal agency SMEs

3) Expanding contacts and relationships within assigned and newly identified accounts

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS ROLE INCLUDE:

• Actively work to identify opportunities within the list of assigned accounts as well as display the initiative to prospect other companies where you have identified business opportunities that align to the BD strategy and agency competencies.
• Maintain high levels of knowledge on your assigned accounts including pipeline assets, key contacts, overall Syneos Health footprint and organisational structure.
• Generate high levels of personalised outreach daily to potential prospects and leveraging all available channels i.e. email, phone, social media, events, etc.
• Record all outreach activity in the CRM and maintain regular reporting of activity to the VP, BD and senior agency leadership – able to discuss outreach trends and adjust outreach messaging and approach quickly based on response patterns observed.
• Be a strong presenter – able to switch between in-person and virtual presentations with ease and comfortable presenting 1:1 or to large groups of clients.
• Maintain strong relationships with the Communication and agency leaders to understand current business footprint and client map including revenues, nature of engagements, scope of offering, existing relationships, potential opportunities, etc.
• Work closely with the Region Europe Growth Group to convert identified opportunities through successful agency KO, proposal development and pitch delivery.
• Develop strong relationships across the wider commercial BD organisation including Consulting and Deployment solutions to identify and deliver relationships that can be leveraged and/or opportunities for cross selling to a particular client.
• Position yourself as an industry thought leader, actively networking to develop brand awareness and solutions to challenges. Be a trusted, credible leader internally and externally. Actively research, synthetize and communicate current trends and changes in our industry.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a science related field.
• Extensive related BD experience with track record of sales success.
• Extensive experience within an agency, medical publisher environment or relevant service provider to the pharmaceutical industry.
• Deep understanding of the biopharmaceutical industry including commercial and medical affairs organisations.
• Ability to work and travel internationally (primarily Europe and USA) is essential.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Fluent in English and German and have the ability to speak another major European language (French, Spanish, Etc) is preferred.
• Experience with developing and executing successful sales & prospecting strategies.
• Must have a strategic mindset along with being a thought leader and a strategic partner with clients.

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