At a Glance
- Tasks: Build client relationships and lead innovative proposals in the life sciences sector.
- Company: Join a leading consultancy making a positive impact on health and healthcare.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, flexible benefits, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic, inclusive culture.
- Why this job: Be part of a team driving change in healthcare with cutting-edge insights and data.
- Qualifications: Experience in business development, life sciences knowledge, and strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 85000 £ per year.
About us CF is a leading consultancy dedicated to making an enduring positive impact on health and healthcare. Our purpose is to make a lasting, positive difference to health and healthcare. Our mission is to be invaluable to our clients, supporting them to innovate and make lasting improvements — and to build an exceptional company that attracts, develops and retains a trusted team. CF serves the entire healthcare sector — from health systems, life sciences companies, and health tech to investors and the voluntary sector. Our Life Sciences practice helps pharma, biotech, and medtech clients drive rapid adoption of innovation, enabled by our deep health systems expertise and unmatched access to health data.
About the role CF is seeking a Business Development Manager for its Life Sciences practice. Our practice is built on cultivating relationships grounded in trust, combined with demonstrating genuine insight into clients' challenges. Business development at CF is both relational and substantive: it requires the ability to engage as a peer with senior client stakeholders, combined with domain expertise, structured thinking, and collaborative problem solving. We do not use outbound origination and prospecting. But you will only succeed in this role if you enjoy meeting new people, taking initiative, and working as a team to pursue a set of proactive priorities and to respond with agility to inbound requests.
The BD Manager works alongside the practice's Managing Partner and Director as a domain-expert contributor — deepening client relationships, shaping bespoke propositions, and ensuring that CF's intellectual offer reaches the people who need it most. This is a player-manager role. The BD Manager has line management responsibility for two roles: the BD Consultant (a CF consultant on rotation into business development) and the BD Digital and AI-Enabled Intelligence Coordinator (a role shared with the Health Investing practice). The BD Manager leads by example rather than by delegation alone — remaining personally active in client relationships, proposal development, and thought leadership, while directing, supporting, and developing a small team.
Requirements What you will do:
- Build and sustain client relationships
- Lead proposition and proposal development
- Manage the commercial pipeline and client intelligence
- Build thought leadership and market presence
- Lead, develop, and direct the BD team
What we are looking for:
- Commercial drive
- Problem solving
- Teamwork
- Continuous learning
- Sector expertise
- Client relationships
- Managing delivery
- Data and AI literacy
- Communication
- Sector influence
- Business growth
- Building an exceptional company
How this role sits in the team The BD Manager reports to the Managing Partner for Life Sciences and has direct line management responsibility for two roles: the BD Consultant and the BD Digital and AI-Enabled Intelligence Coordinator. The BD Manager works in close daily collaboration with the Director on proposal development and client strategy. This is a player-manager role: the BD Manager is expected to contribute directly and substantially to client relationships and propositions, while also directing, developing, and supporting the team beneath them.
CF values CF's four values — Be Connected, Uphold Standards, Inspire Change, and Create the Future — are not aspirational statements. They reflect how we work. For this role, Be Connected is particularly central. CF's ability to have enduring positive impact on health and healthcare depends on the quality of relationships our people build and sustain.
Benefits 25 days holiday per year, increasing by one day per year of service to a maximum of 35 days, 7% employer pension contribution (employee contributes 3%), Flexible benefits programme including cash plan and ClassPass subscription, Income protection: 75% of salary in the event of long-term incapacity, Life insurance: four times basic salary, Enhanced family leave policies, Interest-free loan of up to £10,000, Interest‑free season ticket loan, repayable over 12 months, Workplace nursery scheme, Up to four weeks fully remote working per year, Employee assistance and wellness programme (Lifeworks), Membership of the Health Service Journal.
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