Senior Business Development Manager
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
Job overview
This role sits within the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate. Truly dynamic, our team continues to play a central role in supporting the response to health threats as they occur and ensuring a resilient infrastructure to secure the UK in the strongest position to protect the public from future threats to health.
The Business Development team promotes the skills, experience, knowledge assets, services and products to external organisations where we negotiate contracts to win extra income to support the Agency’s work, thus allowing us to do more without additional funds from the UK taxpayer. We influence strategy and decisions, working with scientific and academic stakeholders whilst putting in place vital contracts that keep us operating as an organisation.
We are seeking a highly experienced, scientifically qualified Senior Business Development Manager (SBDM) to join UKHSA's Commercial Business Development team. This role plays an important part in proactively developing business opportunities with external organisations, overseeing the intellectual property (IP) portfolio thereby generating additional income for use across the Agency.
Main duties of the job
The SBDM will be specifically responsible for UKHSA's IP portfolio, identifying and leading on the protection, prosecution and commercialisation as well as subsequent management. You will also contribute to and coordinate the income generation strategy and the commercial priorities for your assigned areas, gaining ownership from internal and external stakeholders and presenting plans up to Board level.
This is a dynamic and challenging environment where you will need to be confident in managing complexity, applying judgement, and making decisions whilst collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.