SF Recruitment have partnered with a brilliant, regionally focussed organisation based in Birmingham City Centre, who are looking to recruit a Business Development Manager on a 12 month maternity cover.

Salary: up to £50,000
Working pattern: full time hybrid, 2 days working from the office, 3 from home

Responsibilities will include:

- Generate and manage own pipeline of projects to deliver job creation in the region. As part of this, undertake external business development activity to identify, support and secure inward investment and expansion projects to achieve an increase in job creation.
- Progress and convert pipeline owned by incumbent BDM for Life Sciences, supporting those companies through the process of locating or expanding in the West Midlands, and recording job creation for our reporting purposes.
- Identify and translate the strengths of, and opportunities within, the West Midlands into a compelling value proposition to attract job-creating investment within the Life Sciences sector, from key global and domestic investment markets.
- Work closely with the SBDM Life Sciences and the Life Sciences Strategic Lead to ensure efficient handling of projects across a range of sub-sectors and project sizes.
- Where a strong case can be made for return on investment, undertake planned marketing and lead generation activities (trade fairs, exhibitions etc) to showcase the strengths and opportunities within the geography, and in particular the strengths of our university and commercial partners.
- Monitor, review and refine business development strategies, together with marketing and communications programmes, to fully exploit business opportunities for the benefit of both organisation and the region.
- Take a lead role in account management of strategic businesses specific to the sector across the geography, in collaboration with local partners, with the aim of generating business growth and securing expansion projects
- Work closely with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and their relevant sector teams on agreed account management plans for strategic foreign direct investors (FDI) in the geography, aimed at generating/supporting inward investment expansion projects.
- Forge and develop effective relationships with key industry associations, trade bodies and other intermediaries relevant to the sector for lead generation. Identify a target list of such intermediaries for regular engagement and engage with individuals from the list with agreed regularity.
- Efficiently, thoroughly and consistently use current customer relationship management (CRM) systems to ensure regular and effective evaluation of activity, and transparency of lead generation across the region.