Business Development & Research Manager

About the Lowdown

We’re building the ultimate research platform for women’s health. We want every woman, regardless of age or stage, to be able to come to our website and get medically credible answers to their health questions. And we want our corporate and business partners to be able to come to us to understand what women want for their health and from their healthcare. 

What makes us truly unique is that we listen to women – as a team we strongly believe that understanding women’s experiences of healthcare is critical. We have collected thousands of experiences from women on different forms of contraception, HRT and women’s health conditions. We have also worked with a number of pharmaceutical and brand clients on research and insights projects. We are now looking for a Business Development and Research Manager to build our B2B pipeline and deliver our client projects.

About the role

We’re looking for a manager-level mixed-methods quant-leaning commercial research/insights professional with a focus on business development, client development and sales processes. You should be comfortable costing, conducting and delivering simple research projects, but you should love and get your energy from sales, business development, outreach and hustling to build pipelines and sell work. Ideally, you should also have a background or experience specifically in pharmaceutical or healthcare research and client management.

The ask will be to support the growth of our commercial business by building our pipeline of opportunities, proposal writing, ongoing client management, and delivery of projects.

Role & responsibilities 

• Creating a healthy pipeline proactively identifying opportunities to sell research and consulting services on women’s health to pharmaceutical, brand and corporate clients
• Converting this pipeline into sales by writing proposals, and talking to clients, and supporting the founder Alice on sales calls, materials preparation, notes and research
• Ongoing client management to turn single projects into long-term commercial relationships
• Building the offer and internal capabilities by creating longer term replicable processes and norms
• Owning and ensuring the timely and successful delivery of partner project work, either through your own analysis or managing external freelancers
• Be the go to person for data at The Lowdown, and work with the whole business to deliver and ensure our unique insights are utilised across our content and product

About you

Experience we think will mean you can do this role:

• Experience in and enjoyment of sales and business development (essential)
• Experience in pharmaceutical research or consultancy (highly desirable)
• Experience with commercial research proposals, costing and delivery (desirable)
• Experience with mixed methods research, quant-leaning (desirable)

To be successful in this role, you will likely be:

• Low ego – no task is too small (we’re all like this)
• A self starter, who is highly motivated
• Highly organised, proactive and a planner
• A good communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Someone who will get stuck in and get things done
• Highly detail oriented

How to apply

• Please apply through this typeform
• If you for the criteria, our hiring team will get in touch to arrange an initial interview
• We will then share details of the process which will include a short task and a final interview

Compensation & benefits

We are anticipating this role starting at 2 – 3 days a week and we are open to applicants for contract positions or as employees (PAYE). Salary will be dependent on experience but for reference we are anticipating:

For full time employee (PAYE): £40k – £60k p/a pro-rata’d to part-time

For contract roles: £300-425 p/d (outside IR35) 

For PAYE employees, benefits include:

• Meaningful equity and the chance to work in building a mission driven startup that is already helping thousands of people every day. Trust us when we say it’s rewarding!
• 30 days holiday a year + bank holidays
• Lovely office space in Southwark, London, with flexibility to work from home or in office
• Free rein

Equal opportunities

The Lowdown is committed to all employees including full time, part time, temporary and contractors in providing diversity and equality. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to our responsibility to ensure there is no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, sex, religion or belief. 

We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on aptitude and ability.

We will work to support any accessibility requirements you may have, so please don’t hesitate to let us know if you need any support at the application stage – please email hello@thelowdown.com