Growth and Partnerships Manager

The Role

Scendea is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our global team, full-time, as a Growth and Partnerships Manager within our Business Development Team. This is a remote position, affiliated to our UK Office, reporting to the Chief of Staff.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual to progress their career at a leading product development, regulatory, and compliance consulting group serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

Requirements

• Have a strong understanding of our service offering in order to research and accurately identify high‑potential prospective clients.
• Generate qualified leads through structured multi-channel outreach.
• Maintain accurate and up‑to‑date lead information within CRM systems, ensuring data integrity and traceability.
• Qualify leads, including inbound queries, and accurately assess opportunity potential.
• Support the development and execution of successful lead‑generation campaigns.
• Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of early-stage opportunities.
• Collaborate with Business Development and Marketing to refine targeting criteria, messaging, and qualification frameworks. Assist in preparing outreach materials, including introductory messaging, capability summaries, and follow‑up communications.
• Monitor industry trends, competitor activity, and market developments to identify new lead sources and emerging opportunities.

Skills and Experience

• 1–2 years’ experience in lead generation or business development support within Life Sciences services.
• Degree-level education (or proven equivalent experience).
• Proficiency with CRM systems (ideally Zoho) for managing leads and tracking activity.
• Proven ability to research, identify, and qualify new business opportunities.
• Professional communicator able to create positive first impressions with prospects.
• Results‑focused mindset with an understanding of lead targets and conversion metrics.
• Ability to understand client needs and clearly articulate Scendea’s value proposition at an introductory level.
• Strong awareness of industry trends and competitor activity.
• Process driven, highly organised, proactive, and self‑motivated.
• Proficient using MS Office, SharePoint, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and marketing automation tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Generous bonus program, which rewards success.
• 26 days’ holiday plus public holidays and additional days leave for birthday and work anniversaries.
• Employer pension contribution.
• Private Healthcare insurance.
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme.
• Employee Ownership Trust Scheme.
• A challenging and stimulating position for a dynamic and competent individual, looking to contribute to a growing business and a rapidly expanding team.
• Coaching, mentoring and support of your continuous learning, and professional development within a highly recognised international team.

The Company

Scendea is an international product development, regulatory, and compliance consulting group delivering market-leading scientific expertise & regulatory solutions, to advance healthcare innovation worldwide. We are passionate about delivering strategic and operational support to clients, with a strong commitment to problem-solving and redefining customer service. Our goal is to streamline the product development process, reduce time-to-market, and minimise overall development costs.

With a current team of over 50 staff based in the US, Netherlands, Australia, and the UK, Scendea is undergoing a period of significant growth, with the addition of new service lines to facilitate the delivery of expert and strategic global regulatory and compliance consulting services to our rapidly growing client base. We are equally committed to making a positive impact on society by managing our environmental impacts and contributing to a low-carbon economy. Our inclusive work culture values transparency, ethical collaboration with clients, and employee involvement in key decision-making processes, ensuring that our team is respected, supported, and engaged.

As a Scendea Employee

Part of what makes Scendea successful is the highly motivated people who work for us and their enthusiasm for what we do and stand for. We recruit individuals whose passion, drive, integrity and customer orientation shines through. You are a motivated individual who can instil trust and confidence in our customer relationships whilst having a natural aptitude for getting the best out of people internally. You will inspire others through your commitment, motivation, expertise, professional manner and always placing the customer at the centre of everything you do.

Eligibility & Conditions

Applicants must reside and be eligible to work in the UK, without the requirement for sponsorship now or in the future. Closing date for applications is Friday 24th April 2026 and candidates will be notified by of the outcome of their application no later than Friday 1st May 2026.