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Director of Business Development | Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Market Research 📍 UK | 💰 Competitive Base + Performance-Related Bonus I’m currently working with a growing healthcare and pharmaceutical market research business looking to appoint a commercially driven Director of Business Development to play a key role in their next phase of growth. This is a true new business opportunity — you’ll be responsible for opening doors, building senior relationships and turning them into long-term commercial partnerships across the healthcare MR space. What you’ll be selling and be targeting: 🔹 Healthcare professional & specialist audience recruitment 🔹 Patient & caregiver recruitment 🔹 Online surveys, interviews & other methodologies 🔹 Flexible data-collection solutions for complex research projects 🔹Healthcare & pharmaceutical MR consultancies 🔹 Healthcare communications & consulting organisations The role will involve building the BD strategy, generating new business, developing a strong pipeline, leading proposals and negotiations, and growing strategic accounts. 🔎 Ideally, you’ll have: • Experience selling data collection, sample, fieldwork or research services • An established network within healthcare/pharma market research • A track record of winning new business • Strong senior-level stakeholder relationships • A consultative, commercially driven approach • The ambition to build something, rather than simply manage an existing book This is a great opportunity for someone who wants real ownership over the commercial strategy and the chance to build a significant healthcare MR client portfolio