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Drug Delivery Systems - Head of Business Development - Cambridge

Our client requires a Business Development Head to join thier team based in Cambridge
Main purpose of the job

You will lead all business development activities for our clients Drug Delivery Business. Your responsibility will be to set the strategy for the business and execute significant personal sales, marketing and client management activities that result in continued growth of this major sector of our business. Our client has been a world class centre of excellence for the development of inhalation devices for many years, and is expanding this reputation to other drug delivery platforms.

Type of work undertaken by the group

The development of innovative healthcare devices and equipment from concept through to prototype manufacture to transfer to production. The projects often incorporate considerable technical challenge. The Medical Technology Division undertakes development projects in the three focus areas of:

? Drug delivery systems
? Medical diagnostics and instrumentation
? Surgical products and medical systems

Our client combines highly creative lateral thinking with excellent technical skills and a broad base of industry experience to form a powerful development team. Their work ranges from undertaking complete product developments to providing consulting services for their clients on their technology, strategy or development processes.

The group undertakes both client funded and internally funded projects.

Specific responsibilities

You will be responsible for all aspects of Business Development for our Drug Delivery Business. You will
? Identify companies that are potential clients for our client
? Develop strong commercial relationships with senior executives in potential client companies
? Personally close substantial sales
? Identify global sales opportunities, work with and guide our clients technical teams in Cambridge, UK and Boston USA to maximize sales conversion
? Feedback market information to the technical teams to support product and service development
? Interact with teams across the broad technical base of our client which includes:
- Mechanical engineering
- Product design
- Software and electronics
- Informatics
- Regulatory affairs
- Manufacturing technology
- Process automation
- Life sciences

You will also use your strong technical skills to make a significant contribution to the overall direction of development projects, often working on more than one concurrently, and to participate in consultancy work within client companies.

Whilst this position is based in Cambridge, UK, there will be international travel.
Minimum requirements

To meet the demanding requirements of this role you will be able to provide the following:
? Track record of successful Drug Delivery Device development
? Success in developing business in the Drug Delivery sector with substantial contract values
? Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
? Minimum ten years commercial experience in medical product development, sales experience with a design and development services company or sales experience with a medical products company
? Bachelor?s degree in engineering or in physical sciences required
? Up to 25% foreign travel

Our client is committed to developing its employees? careers and has a flexible policy for individual capabilities and preferences.

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