Senior Business Developer - Consumer
Our client, based in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Business Developer with a strong technical background and experience in an R&D or design role.
Main Purpose of the Job
As a Senior Business Developer, you will be the dynamic leader of business development activities in the rapidly growing Health and Fitness market. Taking a leading role in the Consumer team, you will be responsible for significant personal sales, marketing strategy, client initiation and development, key client management and contract negotiation.
Working alongside world class project managers and technical leads, you will also take commercial responsibility for the delivery of successful innovative projects to clients.
Specific Responsibilities
You will be responsible for all aspects of business development for the Consumer Health and Fitness market, working alongside other business development, project management and technical staff.
* Identify companies that are potential clients
* Identify sales opportunities, work with and guide our technical teams to maximise sales conversion
* Personally close substantial sales
* Develop strong commercial relationships with senior executives in client and potentials client companies to enable further sales opportunities
* Actively utilise market information to guide the technical team, inform strategy, and internal investments
* Lead marketing activities in your specific area - this includes PR, social media, and events
* Interact with teams across the diverse market and technical teams
You will also use your strong technical or design skills to help communicate what the company can deliver to potential clients. Your background skills will also help you to make a significant contribution to the overall direction of development projects, often working on more than one concurrently.
Whilst this position is based in Cambridge, UK, there will be some international travel.
Minimum Requirements
Having a strong technical education including a good degree, your career will include significant experience in an R&D or design role. You will have already been successful in a business development, innovation management or NPI role creating breakthrough products and bringing them to market.
You will have had a successful role in either:
And FMCG or consumer medical company
A consumer electronics company developing products in this space
A sports and fitness company
Another fee for service design and development company
Experience of high volume consumer product development in a medical other highly regulated market would be advantageous.
[ Cambridge,, Salary £neg. | vacancy reference : 24874 ]
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