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    LGC Group

    Life Sciences

    Senior Business Development Manager - Engineering Biology

    Guildford, United KingdomHybridFull-timePosted 6d ago
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    Job description

    The postholder will find and develop collaborative opportunities, assemble and manage high-value consortia, represent NML at relevant industry and innovation events, and lead the creation of competitive funding proposals aligned with organisational priorities. Working where science, innovation, and commercial strategy intersect, the role will help convert NML's scientific strengths into balanced business growth, strategic partnerships, and externally funded programmes that support LGC's mission to protect and improve public health, safety, and security.

    To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to capably perform each of the following essential duties:

    • Drive NML revenue growth by recognizing, nurturing, and transforming funding, partnership, and commercial opportunities.
    • Build and manage a robust pipeline of opportunities, delivering measurable growth in externally funded activity.
    • Develop strategic collaborations that improve NML's scientific impact, market position, and long-term sustainability.
    • Lead the identification and shaping of funding applications, partnerships, and multi-year strategic programmes with a high degree of autonomy and judgement.
    • Convert organisational priorities into practical funding, partnership, and business development opportunities.
    • Manage multiple projects, proposals, and partner engagements simultaneously, balancing planning with hands-on delivery.
    • Engage and influence a broad network of collaborators including government, funders, academia, industry, regulators, and international partners.
    • Prepare and deliver high-quality proposals, arguments, reports, presentations, partner materials, and management updates for technical, commercial, and policy audiences.
    • Provide/support leadership across virtual project teams, consortium partners, and external collaborators, while supporting mentoring and knowledge sharing activities.
    • Support business development, bid management, governance, contract management, and compliance processes, ensuring effective pipeline reporting and process oversight.
    • Apply expertise in engineering biology, research funding, collaborative R&D, consortium development, science commercialisation, and partnership management.
    • Drive continuous improvement by enhancing business development practices, collaborator engagement, funding success rates, reporting metrics, and partnership models to achieve revenue and impact targets.
    • Degree or PhD in Life Science or equivalent experience
    • Knowledge of Engineering Biology, life sciences, measurements/testing, or related fields
    • Proven experience in business development, partnerships, or programme management in science/innovation
    • Understanding of the UK grant funding landscape.
    • Strong experience in developing collaborative funding proposals (UKRI, DSIT, NIHR or similar)
    • Excellent collaborator management
    • Ability to build opportunities from early concept through to competitive, fundable proposals, ensuring strong alignment between scientific value, partner capability, funder priorities, and NML strategy
    • Highly organised, able to manage multiple parallel opportunities and deadlines
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    • Full UK driving license

    Desirable

    • Understanding of standards and regulation.
    • Experience working in multi-disciplinary, multi-partner environments.
    • Understanding of the EU grant funding landscape.

    Behavioural & Interpersonal proficiencies

    • Highly collaborative, working across NML teams and external partners.
    • Proactive, problem-solver and motivated by challenges.
    • Judgement-led and selective, with the ability to distinguish high-value strategic opportunities from low-fit or transactional leads.
    • Structured, delivery-focused and comfortable operating within a fast paced environment.

    ABOUT LGC:

    LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high-quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality, and range.

    OUR VALUES

    • PASSION
    • CURIOSITY 
    • INTEGRITY
    • BRILLIANCE
    • RESPECT

    EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES 

    LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age, disability, race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. Short listing, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, or trade union membership.

    For more information about LGC, please visit our website www.lgcgroup.com

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    LGC Group

    LGC Ltd ( www.lgcgroup.com ) is an international life sciences company working with customers in the government, academic, pharmaceutical, agricultural biotechnology, food, environment, security and sports sectors. LGC’s Grant Management Group (GMG) manages a number of research funding programmes on behalf of government departments and other large national health bodies, to improve NHS patient health and care. At the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) we enable and deliver world-class research that transforms people’s lives, promotes economic growth and advances science. We manage public investment in excess of £550 million per annum and provide bespoke expertise to charitable and commercial organisations to get the most out of their research funding. The NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) in Twickenham, based at LGC Ltd ( www.lgcgroup.com ), is one of NIHR’s Coordinating Centres and manages a number of research funding programmes on behalf of NIHR and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). This role is based in the Systems Team at Twickenham.

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