Corporate Development Associate

🍊Our mission 

We're powering biology's century with radically faster, more reliable clinical trials. Every new treatment needs clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy, but today's infrastructure is stuck in the past- driving up cost, causing delays and ultimately meaning new treatments don’t get to patients. We're fundamentally changing that- not just being a "better CRO," but transforming how people think about developing new treatments, so patients can access breakthrough treatments faster.

Our impact speaks for itself: Since March 2021, we've powered 100+ clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients. We recently raised a $55M Series B from Balderton Capital, alongside backing from Creandum, Firstminute, Seedcamp, and Visionaries.

🍊What's it like to work here?

When you join us, you’ll experience:

• High-Impact, Mission-Driven Work: Lindus is disrupting an outdated industry, giving you the chance to directly improve patients’ lives and see tangible results from your work.

• Fast-Paced Growth & Ownership: We recognise hard work and outcomes over anything else. You’ll take on real responsibility, work across different areas, and actively shape the company’s success.

• Collaborative, No-Ego Culture: Work with smart, driven people in a supportive and informal environment. At Lindus we break down silos, fun is a core value, and creativity is encouraged.

Ready to power biology's century? We'd love to hear from you.

Lindus Therapeutics (LTx - lindustx.com) is our newly launched initiative to build a portfolio of in-licensed clinical-stage assets. The thesis is simple. Across pharma and biotech, strong assets are routinely deprioritised for commercial or strategic reasons rather than scientific ones. We in-license those assets and aim to advance them through lean, best-in-class proof-of-concept studies our clinical trial platform. We’re targeting a first tranche of 4–5 assets, with trials starting in 2027.

As Associate, Corporate Development, you’ll report directly into our VP Corporate Development and sit at the core of the deal team. You’ll run the engine of asset evaluation (from screening through to commercial diligence and deal structuring) and help build the materials that shape sponsor, investor, and board conversations. This is an early-stage role with unusually direct exposure to the Co-CEOs and the people making the decisions.

This role is based in our London office near London Bridge, with an expectation that you’d be with the team in-person 3 days a week.

🍊About you

We’d like to hear from you if…

• 2-3 years’ experience at a top strategy or life sciences consultancy, a biotech corporate development or BD team, or an investment role focused on healthcare.

• A medical degree, life sciences PhD, or similarly rigorous scientific background is strongly preferred. You can read a clinical data package and hold your own in a scientific discussion.

• Strong commercial judgement. You can size a market for a therapeutic asset, conduct an rNPV valuation, pressure-test a commercial thesis, and identify where a therapeutic area is heading.

• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills. You’re comfortable building peak sales forecasts, competitive benchmarks, and deal economics from scratch, and turning them into clean, persuasive slides.

• Clear writer. You can produce concise internal memos and external-facing materials without a lot of editing.

• High ownership. You drive work to completion and raise your hand when something is off, rather than waiting to be directed.

• AI- and LLM-fluent. You use the latest tools to work faster and better across research, synthesis, modelling support, and presentation development, with strong judgment on where human review matters..

• Genuine interest in drug development, deal-making, and the economics of biotech. You know how to read a patent.

You belong here! If your experience and interests match those above, we want you to apply.

🍊What you’ll focus on

• Running asset identification sprints.

• Driving commercial diligence on shortlisted assets, including peak sales modelling, competitive benchmarking, indication prioritisation, and exit pathway analysis.

• Supporting scientific and regulatory diligence alongside our CMO and external experts, and coordinating with our external DD partners.

• Building the materials that run the deal process: asset briefing docs, first-call question packs, sponsor outreach, and data room review notes.

• Preparing investor and board materials, including pitch decks, portfolio summaries, and financial models.

• Supporting deal structuring and negotiation alongside the VP Corporate Development, Co-CEOs, and counsel.

🍊 What we offer

We believe in rewarding the people who are building the future of clinical research.

Financial & Growth:

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity - you'll own a piece of what we're building

• £1,000 annual Learning & Development budget for courses, certifications, and conferences

• 39 days annual leave (30 days PTO + 8 bank holidays + 1 James Lind Day)

Health & Wellbeing:

• £60 monthly wellness allowance with flexibility on how to spend this, including opting in to a company private health insurance or wellhub membership.

• Access to gym and retail discounts through Happl

Culture & Connection:

• Monthly lunch vouchers for remote team members

• Regular company events and team gatherings (both virtual and in-person)

• Charity partnerships and volunteering opportunities with Forward Trust

• Work with a team that's genuinely changing healthcare for the better

🍊 Our Hiring Process

We believe hiring should be transparent, respectful of your time, and give you a real feel for what Lindus Health is like. Here's what to expect:

Initial conversation with Sean Sheppard (VP Corp Dev) or Michael Young Co-CEO (30 mins)
Get to know each other, discuss the role, and answer any questions about Lindus and LTx

Functional interview with Sean and Michael (Co-CEO) (45 mins)
Prepared presentation to evaluable your experience and how you’d approach asset diligence and deal work

Values interview with Meri (Co-CEO) and another member of the wider team (30 mins)
A chance to get to know each other and explore how our values align

We will only contact you from lindushealth.com email addresses. Please check the spelling of emails which appear to come from Lindus carefully before responding. We will never ask for your financial information over email.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We evaluate all candidates based solely on their skills, experience, and qualifications relevant to the role. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status