Business Development Manager: NextGen Health at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

About The Job

The CSIR has a vacancy for a Business Development Manager within the NextGen Health Cluster of the Chemicals, Agriculture, Food and Health Division. The incumbent will be accountable for securing the total revenue, diversification of income streams, and for meeting targets per revenue stream for the cluster. He/she will be accountable for clearly defining business development and commercialisation priorities of the Cluster in alignment with the CSIR vision, strategy and relevant market needs , collecting market and business intelligence to ensure all cluster programmes and projects are relevant to the user environment, and for transferring CSIR technologies to the market. This position is based in Pretoria.

Key Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the Business Development & Commercialisation Divisional Executive, lead the business development strategy for the NextGen Health cluster;
• Be accountable for securing the revenue targets and diversification of income streams of the cluster;
• Facilitate strategic investment of parliamentary grant to leverage further income from industry and other funding sources;
• Be accountable for a robust, balanced pipeline of business leads per cluster targets;
• Be accountable for market/business intelligence to inform the cluster’s RDI agenda, facilitate development of technologies for current and future competitiveness and ensure collaboration with industry and relevant parties locally and internationally;
• Lead and maintain in-depth stakeholder engagement in industry and the public sector at large;
• Lead technical teams in client interactions;
• Be accountable for all key client relationships, represent client interests and be responsible for client satisfaction.

Qualifications, Skills And Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in science in an area that is relevant to the health cluster with at least five years’ business development in industry;
• In-depth understanding and experience in the applied biotechnology and pharmaceuticals space is essential;
• Relevant health industry experience, demonstrated experience of people management, project management and organisational development;
• Proven track record of market/business development in the health care industry;
• Excellent communicator with strong business acumen;
• Evidence of high-level stakeholder management and industry-related networks;
• Global insights and networks in the sector an added advantage;
• Solid experience in writing business plans an added advantage;
• Excellent communicator with strong, demonstrable business acumen; and
• Demonstrated experience of strong people management and organisational development skills.

PLEASE NOTE THAT FEEDBACK WILL BE GIVEN TO SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES ONLY.

For more info, please contact the CSIR Recruitment Centre on 012 841 4774 or email us at [email protected] ,please do-not send your application to this mailbox.