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Newton Colmore Consulting Ltd
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3 months ago
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A market leading biotechnology services company based in Cambridge are actively looking for a Business Development Lead 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 said 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 bioprocessing and/or synthetic biology.

You'll be working with clients 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 client 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 very important role for this company, and you will be afforded the autonomy to really make this role your own. This autonomy will of course come with guidance from senior people in the organisation and there will be a defined career path for you to follow.

The company are offer market-leading, tailored packages to secure the right people for their roles. This is coupled with excellent training and development as well as profit sharing as well as providing state-of-the-art labs and workspaces for their scientists, who work on highly complex development projects.

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

For more information, make a confidential application now and a member of our team will be in touch with more details.

Newton Colmore Consulting is a highly specialist recruitment consultancy operating within the Medical Devices, Scientific Engineering, Scientific Software, Robotics, Science, Electronics Design, New Product Design, Human Factors, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Field Service Engineering sectors throughout Europe and the US.

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