Business Development Lead - Alderley Park

Bruntwood SciTech owns and manages the largest portfolio of science and technology assets in the UK including prestigious locations like Manchester Science Park in Manchester, Alderley Park in Cheshire and Platform in Leeds.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Lead to join our team at Alderley Park, the UK’s largest bioscience campus. Located just outside of Manchester and surrounded by idyllic Cheshire countryside, Alderley Park is a unique and sought-after business location with exceptional amenities allowing business and science industries to flourish. Alderley Park is an exceptional office, lab space, conference and event space for a thriving community of progressive businesses that challenge the norm.

In the role, you will leverage your knowledge and background in life sciences to identify and attract businesses to the site that are aligned with Alderley Park’s vision and growing ecosystem. This is a pivotal role in growing the UK’s largest single site Bioscience campus and to deliver the vision for the site as a world leading life science and technology campus. You will develop and review the Business Development strategy.

What you’ll be doing:

- You will build understanding of AP businesses including their commercial barriers, routes to market and growth aspirations
- Evaluating existing approaches to business development and recommending changes where required. This includes (but not limited to) the evaluation of the return on investment of different business development activities and monitoring the sources (and productivity of those sources) of leads & opportunities
- Actively networking to develop potential opportunities and promote Alderley Park
- Building and maintaining relationships with shareholders, stakeholders, industry bodies and DIT to ensure they understand the Alderley Park proposition and availability
- Managing the planning, attendance and reporting on prospecting trips to conferences in the UK, Europe and other international destinations as needed
- You will develop your social media profile (with assistance from Marketing where required) to enhance your visibility and connections with prospects and the wider life sciences industry
- Selling the wider benefits of being an Alderley Park customer (Science services, Accelerator, Scitech portfolio sites, shareholder network etc.) and the additional services Alderley Park can offer which makes moving to our portfolio attractive
- Being an effective participant in the sector and building a profile through genuine interest and engagement with the sector.

What’s important to us:

- A passion and knowledge of life sciences, with PHD or equivalent experience
- A proven track record of success in a business development role
- To have excellent presentation and networking skills and an interest in attending and
hosting sectoral events
- Strong relationship building skills with a genuine, natural disposition
- A collaborator, team worker and effective communicator
- The desire to succeed and the drive to deliver results in a demanding market
- Commercially aware
- Flexibility and creativity
- An ability to focus on customer service and develop and maintain good relationships

If you want a challenge and to gain wide ranging experience within a fast paced team, this role will tick all the boxes.

To apply for this role please send us a letter about you outlining why you would be the right candidate for this position.

This role is paying £40,000 - £45,000.

Bruntwood are an equal opportunity employer.

Application Instructions: 

To apply, you can use the link below which will take you straight through to our careers website. If you have any questions about the role or the application process, you can email talentacquisition@bruntwood.co.uk.

https://tinyurl.com/w6tfzuk

Application Closing Date: 
20 December 2019