Manager - LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTHCARE – EU
On-site · London, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Manager – LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTHCARE – EU leads identification, pursuit, and execution of non-dilutive funding opportunities for life sciences and healthcare clients, focusing on European, UK, and international sources. Oversees the full lifecycle of grants, cooperative programs, and consortia-based bids from opportunity assessment to proposal leadership, award negotiation, and delivery. Builds and sustains relationships with funding agencies, consortium partners, research institutions, universities, hospitals, SMEs, and large industry participants; translates scientific and clinical capabilities into compelling, compliant proposals; represents the firm at industry events and funding forums. Provides client advisory on funding readiness, platform alignment to funder priorities, and portfolio strategy. Leads cross-border consortia development, guiding teams through bid/no-bid, partner outreach, workplan design, budget alignment, and final submission. Ensures governance, reporting, milestones, KPIs, and stakeholder communications for funded programs; ensures compliance with grant terms and data privacy requirements. Demonstrates AI fluency to enhance funding landscape analysis, opportunity qualification, proposal development, partner research, and program delivery, with a focus on responsible AI practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, public health, biomedical sciences, healthcare, business, public policy, international affairs, or a related field.
- 10+ years of professional experience in non-dilutive funding, research and innovation grants, life sciences consulting, healthcare strategy, program management, or related fields.
- 5+ years of experience leading or supporting business development, capture, proposal development, or funded program delivery in the context of EU, UK, or international non-dilutive funding program.
- Demonstrated experience working with or pursuing opportunities through organizations such as HERA, the European Commission, Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe, Innovate UK, Wellcome, or similar public and philanthropic funders.
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