Associate Business Manager
Listed on 2026-10-12
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Business
Operations Management
Title: Associate Business Manager, Clinical Trial Supply (PhD / MSc Science)
Location: Marlow, Buckinghamshire (on site, five days a week)
Salary: Up to £38,000 + 10% bonus
Finished your PhD or Masters and want to take your science into the commercial side of pharma? This is a route in, with a clear path up.
The companyOur client is one of the UK's fastest growing pharmaceutical services businesses. Founded in 2009, it grew from zero to £80M in eight years and has since passed £350M, with offices in the UK, Germany and the United States. It is still led by its founder, whose ambition is to become the world's number one provider of comparator sourcing for clinical trials, and it has expanded into packaging and labelling and early access medicines.
Therole
You will manage clinical trial comparator supply projects from first quote to final delivery. That means sourcing licensed medicines from manufacturers worldwide, negotiating price, securing the documentation (CoA, stability data, MSDS, SPC), arranging export paperwork and logistics, and keeping pharmaceutical and CRO clients informed at every stage. You will learn under an experienced Head of Project Management, with full training on the company's systems.
Whatyou will do
- Run supply projects end to end: scope, timelines, critical path and contingency plans
- Build relationships with suppliers, clients and logistics partners, and negotiate best prices
- Prepare quotes, purchase orders and invoices
- Work with manufacturers' medical information teams on product documentation
- Check deliveries and dispatches on site for batch, expiry and quantity
- Travel occasionally to clients in the UK, Europe and the USA
- A PhD in a life science, chemistry or pharmacy subject (preferred), or an MSc with project management or clinical experience
- A confident communicator by phone and email who enjoys negotiating
- Organised, detail minded and calm under deadlines
- Living within commuting distance of Marlow, or planning to relocate
- Full right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available, and Graduate visa holders are not eligible
- Up to £38,000 plus 10% bonus
- Strong performers move up to Business Manager, up to £45,000
- Real progression: the director who leads this team joined as a Business Manager after his PhD and has been promoted several times since
- International exposure in a fast growing, founder led business
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