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HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTCAMBRIDGESHIRE CAMBRIDGEMEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL

Employment Type Permanent
Location Cambridgeshire , Cambridge
Industry Sector Medical/Pharmaceutical
Start Date N/A
Salary/Rate £excellent package
Reference J004635
Date Advertised 30-05-2008 - 12:59

This vacancy is out of date and no longer accepting applications.

Description

Commercial experience in medical product development, sales experience with a design and development services company or sales experience with a medical products company.

Head of Business Development - Drug Delivery Systems -

Our Client is seeking a Candidate with proven commercial experience in medical product development, sales experience with a design and development services company or sales experience with a medical products company.

A Bachelor's degree in engineering or in physical sciences is required

To meet the demanding requirements of this role you will be able to provide the following;
Success in developing business in the Drug Delivery sector with substantial contract values.
Track record of successful Drug Delivery Device development
Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
50 - 70% travel required (including international travel)

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 the business. The Company 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.

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

The succesful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of Business Development for our Drug Delivery Business.
You will;
Identify companies that are potential clients.
Develop strong commercial relationships with senior executives in potential client companies
Personally close substantial sales
Identify global sales opportunities, work with and guide technical teams in Boston, USA & Cambridge, UK to maximize sales conversion
Feed back market information to the technical teams to support product and service development

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.