Senior Business Development Manager

The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a system leader for health security; taking action internationally to strengthen global health security, providing trusted advice to government and the public and reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health. UKHSA’s remit, as an agency with a global-to-local reach, is to protect the health of the nation from infectious diseases and other external threats to health. As the nation’s expert national health security agency UKHSA will: Prevent: anticipate threats to health and help build the nation’s readiness, defences and health security Detect: use cutting edge environmental and biological surveillance to proactively detect and monitor infectious diseases and threats to health Analyse: use world-class science and data analytics to assess and continually monitor threats to health, identifying how best to control and mitigate the risks Respond: take rapid, collaborative and effective actions nationally and locally to mitigate threats to health when they materialise Lead: lead strong and sustainable global, national, regional and local partnerships designed to save lives, protect the nation from public health threats and reduce inequalities. Job overview This role sits within the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate. Truly dynamic, our team continues to play a central role in supporting the response to health threats as they occur and ensuring a resilient infrastructure to secure the UK in the strongest position to protect the public from future threats to health. The Business Development team promotes the skills, experience, knowledge assets, services and products to external organisations where we negotiate contracts to win extra income to support the Agency’s work, thus allowing us to do more without additional funds from the UK taxpayer. We influence strategy and decisions, working with scientific and academic stakeholders whilst putting in place vital contracts that keep us operating as an organisation. We are seeking a highly experienced, scientifically qualified Senior Business Development Manager (SBDM) to join UKHSA's Commercial Business Development team. This role plays an important part in proactively developing business opportunities with external organisations, overseeing the intellectual property (IP) portfolio thereby generating additional income for use across the Agency. Main duties of the job The SBDM will be specifically responsible for UKHSA's IP portfolio, identifying and leading on the protection, prosecution and commercialisation as well as subsequent management. You will also contribute to and coordinate the income generation strategy and the commercial priorities for your assigned areas, gaining ownership from internal and external stakeholders and presenting plans up to Board level. This is a dynamic and challenging environment where you will need to be confident in managing complexity, applying judgement, and making decisions whilst collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders. Working for our organisation We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all. #J-18808-Ljbffr