Business Developer
Have you got a proven track record of helping large organisations revolutionize their businesses? Do you realise the potential of innovation to drive profit and improve sustainability? Does working across a wide range of industrial sectors entice you?
We are looking for a Business Developer who is looking for a collaborative and consultative leadership role where you will work within a close-knit team and have a real impact on transforming the business.
Cambridge Consultants is a partner to the ambitious. We can apply market insight and technical expertise to transform our client’s businesses. Companies world-wide trust us to develop their next-generation technology, products, and services, so why not become a part of this client facing role!
What to expect:
You will take a leading role in our global activities, and be responsible for significant new business development, marketing strategy, client initiation and development, account management and contact negotiation.
You will use your strong technical skills to help communicate what Cambridge Consultants can deliver to potential clients. Your technical skills will also help you to make a significant contribution to the overall direction of development projects, often working on more than one concurrently.
What our work in this sector includes:
Designing and developing:
- Intelligent automation and robotic systems to provide significant capability and productivity gains
- Novel autonomous systems, enabled by industry leasing Machine Learning capabilities obstacle detection, navigation and path planning.
- Novel fluidic delivery/mixing and handling systems
- Low power, low latency communication technologies coupled with sensing, edge processing and data fusion to enable creation of new digital services
- Scale up novel industrial applications of biotech/bio innovation, from synthetic biology through to alternative protein development
- Strategic technology-based consulting on business-critical areas
Working alongside world class project managers and technical leads, you will take commercial responsibility for the delivery of the projects you sell to your accounts.
What we are looking for:
- A strong technical education including a good degree, together with experience in R&D, design and manufacturing.
- A track record of success in an account management, new business development, or strategic consulting role creating breakthrough products and bringing them to the market.
- An aspiration to take this experience and apply it to a wider range of companies in the aforementioned sectors, creating breakthrough products and services with the support of an outstanding global technical team.
This position is based in Cambridge, UK, with international travel included.
Benefits
- Competitive salary reviewed anually
- Company profit share
- Generous pension
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours and location
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, with flexibility to carry over / borrow
- Comprehensive insurance - Life, disability, private healthcare and travel insurance (business & leisure)
- Enhanced family leave benefit of 13 weeks full-pay parental leave for those that meet qualifying criteria
- Career development and training opportunities
- Social committee
- Discounted train season tickets, through Travel Plan Plus
- If travelling to Cambridge by train; Free shuttle service to/from Cambridge North train station, through Cambridge Science Park
- Whilst in the office; Free canteen - breakfast, lunch & refreshments
- A comprehensive relocation package is available, if applicable
Future prospects
Cambridge Consultants is committed to developing its employees' careers and has a flexible policy for individual capabilities and preferences. Promotion is linked to merit.