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

Your responsibility will be to support 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 their business.

The Division undertakes development projects in the three focus areas of:

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

You will be responsible for supporting all aspects of Business Development for their Medical Diagnostics and Instrumentation business. You will:

· Identify companies that are potential clients
· Develop strong commercial relationships with senior executives in potential client companies
· Personally close substantial sales
· Work with and guide our technical teams and business development and technical teams to maximize sales conversion
· Feed back market information to the technical teams to support product and service development
· Interact with teams across the broad technical base which includes:
o Mechanical engineering
o Product design
o Electronics
o Software
o Regulatory affairs
o Manufacturing technology
o Process automation
o Life sciences

You will also use your strong commercial and technical skills 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, there will be some international travel required (typically up to 25% of time)

Minimum requirements

To meet the demanding requirements of this role you will be able to provide the following:

· Proven success in developing business in the Clinical Diagnostics and Instrumentation or broader Medical Products sector with substantial contract values
· Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
· Significant 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 a relevant engineering discipline or in the physical sciences

A fantastic opportunity for an ambitious Business Development Manager to make an impact in this highly respected company.

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