Business Development & Partnerships Manager, Biodiversity Intactness Index

About the role

The Natural History Museum is seeking a highly skilled Business Development & Partnerships Manager to grow the reach, impact, and sustainability of its Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII).

BII is a scientifically robust metric developed by the Natural History Museum that measures how much of a region’s original biodiversity remains, enabling organisations to assess and manage their impact on nature. It translates complex ecological data into a clear, decision-ready indicator, now increasingly integrated into financial data aggregators and nature risk assessment tools to inform investment and risk analysis.

The role centres on identifying, shaping, and securing income-generating opportunities—through commercial partnerships, licensing, consultancy, and grant-funded collaborations—while serving as the primary interface with external clients and stakeholders.

Working across both the Innovation Unit and the Biodiversity Futures Lab (BFL), the postholder will bridge commercial opportunity development with the scientific and data expertise behind BII. You will help align partnership and funding strategies across the teams and ensure that external market needs and user feedback are clearly fed into the Lab’s development priorities, supporting BII’s ongoing relevance as a trusted, policy- and market-facing biodiversity metric.

About you

You’re a natural relationship-builder who thrives at the intersection of science, sustainability and commercial impact. Whether you’re developing strategic partnerships, identifying new market opportunities, or translating complex technical concepts into compelling client conversations, you’re energised by turning great ideas into meaningful outcomes.

You bring experience in business development, partnerships, client management or commercial growth, ideally within a science, data, technology or sustainability-focused environment. You know how to spot opportunities, build trust with stakeholders, and convert interest into lasting partnerships that deliver value for everyone involved.

Commercially astute and highly organised, you’re comfortable developing proposals, shaping partnership models, negotiating commercial terms, and managing a diverse pipeline of opportunities. You enjoy balancing big-picture strategy with hands-on delivery and can confidently juggle competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

You are equally comfortable speaking with scientists, investors, policymakers, sustainability leaders and corporate decision-makers. A skilled communicator, you can quickly grasp complex concepts and translate them into clear, engaging value propositions that resonate with different audiences.

Most importantly, you’re motivated by purpose. You understand the growing importance of biodiversity, sustainability and nature-related decision making, and want to play a leading role in helping organisations better understand and manage their impact on the natural world.

Experience within ESG, sustainability, environmental data, biodiversity metrics, nature finance, or related sectors would be highly valuable. Familiarity with frameworks such as TNFD or CSRD, product-led organisations, or mission-driven environments would be an advantage, but we’re equally interested in curious, ambitious individuals who are excited by the opportunity to help scale one of the world’s leading biodiversity data products.

If you’re excited by the challenge of growing partnerships, securing investment, and helping cutting-edge science influence decisions at a global scale, we’d love to hear from you.

About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum’s unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 1100 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.