Future Tech Jobs Future Tech Jobs

Drug Delivery Business Developer

Cambridge Consultants
United Kingdom
Last month
Posted
17 Apr 2026 (Last month)
Share
Save job
Create job alert

Introduction

This is a fantastic career opportunity for someone who is looking to work as part of a world leading product development business:

  • Exploiting your understanding of the Drug Delivery market place especially the product development challenges and opportunities that impact it
  • Utilizing your consultative selling skills to engage with customers who need the advanced product development services for which Cambridge Consultants is renowned. Over 70% of our business is with repeat customers
  • Collaborating with our world-class designers, engineers and scientists to define projects that deliver products and services that exceed our customer’s expectations

Main role

You will work with the Head of Drug Delivery as part of the Global Drug Delivery business development team. Your responsibility will be to support the strategy for the business and execute significant sales and client management activities that result in the continued growth of this major sector of our business.

Type of Work

Cambridge Consultants specialises in the development of innovative medical devices from concept through prototype manufacture to transfer to production. Projects often include considerable technical challenge. Within healthcare we undertake development projects in the three focus areas of:

  • Drug Delivery systems
  • Clinical Diagnostics Instrumentation
  • Surgical products and medical systems

Our work in Drug Delivery embraces multiple device and disease challenges; inhalers, nebulisers, auto-injectors, pens and pumps, both mechanical and electromechanical including connected systems for diseases encompassing chronic, acute and rare. Our customers include the largest global pharmaceutical companies as well as the most innovative start-ups around the world.

We combine highly creative lateral thinking with excellent technical skills and broad industry experience to form powerful development teams. Our work ranges from end-to-end medical device developments to providing consulting services for our clients on their technology, strategy or development processes.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for supporting all aspects of Business Development for our Drug Delivery business. You will:

  • Develop strong commercial relationships with senior executives in potential client companies
  • Establish trusted relationship with clients to drive strategic discussions related to their drug delivery device strategy
  • Close substantial sales in collaboration with project implementation teams
  • Work with our technical teams to maximize sales conversion
  • Feed back market information to the technical teams to support continuous improvement of our service offering
  • Interact with teams across the broad technical base of Cambridge Consultants which includes: Mechanical engineering, Product design and usability, Electronics, Software, Regulatory affairs, Manufacturing technology, Process automation and Life sciences

You will also use your strong commercial and technical skills to make a significant contribution to the overall direction of development projects, often working on more than one concurrently.

We take pride in our robust and most comprehensive training and on-boarding program for every new candidate that we hire. As a new joiner, you will receive training in project management, strategic selling, and our ISO13485 medical device development process to enhance your success in the role.

This position will be based in our Cambridge UK office, however the successful applicant will need to support our clients and business on a global basis spanning the North American, European and South East Asian markets.

Requirements

To meet the demanding requirements of this role you will be able to provide the following:

  • In depth commercial understanding of the Drug Delivery market place
  • Compelling consultative selling skills to engage with customers
  • Significant commercial experience in the medical product sector such as sales experience with a design and development services company, a medical products company or similar
  • Proven success in developing business in the Drug Delivery sector with substantial contract values
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
  • Relevant engineering knowledge

Related Jobs

View all jobs
Spotlight

Machine Learning Engineer - National Security (Gloucestershire)

Mind Foundry Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
On-site Clearance Required

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Latent Labs London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Hybrid

Medicinal Drug Design Lead, London

Isomorphic Labs London, United Kingdom

Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design, London

Isomorphic Labs London, United Kingdom
On-site

Translational Scientist (DMPK & Safety)

Healx Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hybrid

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Products

Where to Advertise Machine Learning Jobs in the UK (2026 Guide)

Where to advertise machine learning jobs UK in 2026: the specialist boards and communities that reach ML, MLOps and deep learning engineering talent. The candidate pool is small, highly specialised and in demand across AI labs, financial services, healthcare, autonomous systems and consumer technology simultaneously. Machine learning engineers and researchers move between roles through professional networks, conference communities and specialist platforms — not general job boards where ML roles compete with unrelated software engineering positions for the same audience. This guide, published by MachineLearningJobs.co.uk, covers where to advertise machine learning roles in the UK in 2026, how the main platforms compare, what employers should expect to pay, and what the data says about hiring across different role types.

Jobs

Machine Learning Jobs UK 2026: What to Expect Over the Next 3 Years

Machine Learning Jobs UK 2026: roles, salaries and the MLOps, LLM and generative AI hiring trends shaping UK ML careers over the next three years. Machine learning has undergone a transformation that few technology disciplines can match. In the space of three years it has moved from a specialism sitting at the edges of most organisations' technology strategies to a capability that sits at the centre of them. The tools have changed, the expectations have shifted, and the range of industries treating machine learning as a core business function — rather than an experimental one — has expanded dramatically. For job seekers, this creates both opportunity and complexity in roughly equal measure. The machine learning jobs market of 2026 is significantly larger than it was three years ago, but it is also significantly more demanding. Employers have developed more sophisticated expectations, the technical bar for specialist roles has risen, and the landscape of tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns that practitioners are expected to know has broadened considerably. The candidates who will thrive over the next three years are those who understand where the discipline is heading — which specialisms are attracting the most investment, which technologies are reshaping what machine learning engineers and researchers are expected to build, and how the definition of a machine learning career is evolving beyond the model-building core toward a much wider range of roles across the full ML lifecycle. This article breaks down what the UK machine learning jobs market is likely to look like through to 2028 — covering the titles emerging right now, the technologies driving employer demand, the skills that will matter most, and how to position your career ahead of the curve.

🍪 Basic, anonymous analytics (aggregate counts only, never shared) are always on. Accept to also enable third-party tools — Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Mixpanel, Leadfeeder — which help us match you with relevant Machine Learning roles. We never sell your data or use it for cross-site advertising. See our Cookie Policy.