As we move into an exciting stage of early commercial growth, we’re hiring a Business Development Lead to play a key role in our success.
This role represents an excellent opportunity for a candidate with prior experience working in R&D in the life sciences who is now seeking to transition into a commercially focused position with lots of room for progression.
The successful candidate will be responsible for driving Nanovery’s business development efforts, particularly within the biopharmaceutical sector. This includes identifying prospective partners, leading strategic outreach, negotiating commercial agreements, and helping shape the company’s market-facing strategy. The role will require close collaboration with both the executive team and technical staff, and will be central to the company’s early commercial success.
Our Laboratories are based in Newcastle upon Tyne, offering a high quality and affordable lifestyle with great opportunities for exploring the outdoors and participating in culture. We would expect you to commute (within two hours) or relocate for this role to facilitate knowledge transfer and team integration.
Drive the entire business development pipeline, from lead generation and outreach to assisting proposal drafting, leading and closing commercial negotiations in line with KPIs
Ensure outreach, record keeping, conference lead up and follow up is conducted in a disciplined and deliberate manner using tools such as a CRM
Collect, analyse and share market intelligence from desk research and customer meetings to identify applications for technology and inform product strategy
A Master’s degree or PhD in Chemistry, Life Sciences, or a related field
A minimum of two years’ commercial or industry experience in R&D
Demonstrable enthusiasm for business development
Experience using and maintaining CRM systems
A strong desire and willingness to travel (up to 50% of the time) to build face-to-face relationships
A customer-centric mindset, with the ability to navigate and engage complex life sciences markets
An existing network in biotech, pharma, or CROs
Experience working in pharmaceutical companies
A strong understanding of commercial terms and contract frameworks
A focus on listening to the customer and creating mutual, long-term value over short-term wins
Data-driven decision-making skills, with the ability to extract key insights and act on them
Resourceful, agile, and output-driven; able to push projects forward independently
Career growth potential as we scale
~ A chance to help shape the future of drug development
~ Team building and social activities
Nanovery was founded in 2018 with a mission is to empower the development of next generation therapies and diagnostics with our NAN-based platform for quantifying nucleic acid sequences.
This is an area of science that treats synthetic DNA as a biocompatible material for building objects or performing tasks and computation.
Any pre-application queries can be sent to contact Roma Galloway (COO) (she/her) at careers@nanovery.The successful candidates' recruitment documentation will be kept in accordance with NANOVERY’s Internal Personal Data Policy.