Placement year - Business Development
Fortrea Leeds
What they're looking for
- Prospecting and identifying potential clients across Europe.
- Researching companies, therapeutic areas, and market opportunities.
- Supporting conference preparation, outreach campaigns, and follow-up activities.
- Maintaining tools, databases, and processes that support business development activities.
- Assisting with targeted country marketing initiatives.
The full posting
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Business Development - Placement year
This program is designed to support your professional development and career exploration through training workshops, leadership speaker sessions, employee resource group activities, and career-focused discussions.
Take pride in helping deliver solutions that bring life-changing medicines to patients faster while creating lasting value for our customers, employees, and stakeholders.
Location: UK, remote
Full-time, 12 months
Start Date: July 2027
About the Team
The European Business Development team plays a critical role in identifying new opportunities, building customer relationships, generating sales pipelines, and supporting opportunities through the sales process to award.
As a Business Development Intern, you will support the Business Development Directors by:
• Prospecting and identifying potential clients across Europe.
• Researching companies, therapeutic areas, and market opportunities.
• Supporting conference preparation, outreach campaigns, and follow-up activities.
• Maintaining tools, databases, and processes that support business development activities.
• Assisting with targeted country marketing initiatives.
• Supporting the creation of LinkedIn content and social media communications for the Business Development team.
• Contributing to account intelligence and business development planning activities.
This highly collaborative role will provide exposure to Business Development professionals and cross-functional teams across Europe, allowing you to gain hands-on experience in the pharmaceutical and clinical research industry while contributing directly to business growth initiatives.
Education / Qualifications / Skills
• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, Business, Marketing, Management, or a related field.
• Strong interest in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical research, or healthcare sectors.
• Interest in sales, business development, marketing, or commercial strategy.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
We look forward to helping you kickstart your career and gain valuable experience within a global healthcare organization.
Learn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here .
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