Senior Business Development Manager

Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to transform the future of healthcare. Today, millions of people across the UK live with conditions such as cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease. By bringing together 5 million volunteers from across the UK, Our Future Health is creating one of the most detailed pictures of human health ever assembled.

We’re now looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to play a pivotal role in growing one of our most strategic commercial offerings.

Your impact:

• Drive strategic growth by identifying, developing and securing high-value partnerships with industry and research organisations
• Shape the evolution of our products by working closely with Product, Science, Access, Data, Legal and Delivery teams
• Turn complexity into compelling value by clearly communicating the scientific, ethical and operational strengths of our recontact capability
• Strengthen our commercial approach by embedding structured, scalable business development practices
• Support long-term sustainability by balancing revenue growth with public trust, participant experience and governance standards

Your responsibilities:

• Own and grow the pipeline: Build, manage and convert a strong customer pipeline aligned to business objectives
• Lead strategic partnerships: Identify, develop and secure high-value, complex deals with industry and research partners
• Drive forecasting and planning: Maintain accurate pipeline reporting and contribute to revenue planning and strategic decisions
• Shape and close deals end-to-end: Develop account strategies, craft value propositions, structure commercial models, and lead negotiations through to contract execution
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Revenue Operations, Lead Generation, and Pricing & Proposals to ensure strong pipeline health and delivery
• Evolve the product offering: Partner with cross-functional teams to refine the recontact product based on customer insight, feasibility and regulatory requirements
• Translate science into strategy: Help develop compelling proposals and materials that clearly articulate our unique value
• Bring market insight: Monitor trends, competitor activity and research needs to inform pricing, positioning and long-term strategy
• Enable alignment and delivery: Act as a bridge between external partners and internal stakeholders to ensure feasibility, compliance and successful delivery
• Uphold governance and ethics: Ensure all commercial activity aligns with our charity mission, ethical standards and regulatory requirements
• Lead through influence: Support and mentor colleagues, sharing best practice in complex deal-making across the commercial function

• Demonstrated experience leading complex, high-value business development initiatives within life sciences, health research, biotech, pharma, or data-driven environments. 
• Proven ability to structure and negotiate sophisticated commercial agreements involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Legal, Data, and Scientific teams to shape offerings in regulated environments. 
• Ability to operate effectively within governance-driven organisations where ethics, compliance, and public trust are central.
• Strong commercial acumen, including pricing strategy, financial modelling input, pipeline management and revenue forecasting. 
• Significant experience operating in complex, evolving, or mission-led organisations requiring both strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• Capable of working in a fast paced “startup” style environment.  

Personal Attributes 

• Exceptional communicator: Able to work across disciplines and seniority levels, translating complexity into clear, actionable insight. 
• Strategic and commercially astute: Able to see beyond individual deals to long-term product and partnership strategy.
• Influential relationship builder: Builds credibility quickly with senior stakeholders internally and externally. 
• Scientifically curious: Comfortable engaging deeply with research concepts and translating them into commercial opportunity. 
• Resilient and adaptable: Thrives in ambiguity and helps bring structure to evolving products and markets. 
• Collaborative leader: Operates with high emotional intelligence and works effectively across multidisciplinary teams. 
• Purpose-driven: Motivated by contributing to a world-leading health research programme with public benefit at its core. 

Join us - let’s prevent disease together.

Closing date 21st April at 9am.

• Salary from £80,000.
• Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process. 

If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at [email protected]