Senior Business Partnerships Manager

We’re looking for an experienced partnerships professional with a scientific background, deep knowledge of the life sciences sector, and a proven record in securing funding and shaping complex, multi-stakeholder collaborations. You’ll bring the confidence and credibility to engage senior academic and industry leaders, the leadership to guide teams, and the expertise to navigate contracting and IP to deliver successful partnerships. A degree, preferably at the post-graduate level or equivalent, is also required.

Senior Business Partnerships Manager
Boundary Brook House, Headington, Oxford

Drive transformative partnerships at the forefront of biomedical innovation.

The University of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division, one of the world’s leading centres for health and biomedical research, is seeking a dynamic and strategic relationship-builder to join its Business Partnerships Office as Senior Business Partnerships Manager.

This is a high-profile role at the heart of Oxford’s external engagement strategy, shaping impactful partnerships that drive health and biomedical innovation. You will lead the development of major partnerships with global pharmaceutical and biotech companies, support emerging multidisciplinary initiatives, and guide researchers in building business collaborations that attract investment and unlock new opportunities. Working alongside world-class research teams and cutting-edge industry partners you will drive the co-development of ambitious projects with real-world impact.

You’ll be part of a successful, supportive team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and delivering results. If you enjoy working at the intersection of science, strategy, and external engagement and want to help accelerate the translation of great research into societal benefit this is a fantastic opportunity and we’d love to hear from you.

This role offers flexible hybrid working with regular team anchor days in the office, occasional travel, and some out-of-hours events.

For an informal chat about this role, contact Maxine Allen, Director of Business Partnerships (maxine.allen@medsci.ox.ac.uk).

Medical Sciences Division
The Medical Sciences Division is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for biomedical and
clinical research and teaching, and is the largest of the four academic divisions within the University of
Oxford. We are a thriving, multidisciplinary community of over 9000 academics, staff, students and
clinicians, all of whom contribute to our extensive and exemplary research, teaching and clinical
portfolios. The Division comprises the Divisional Office, the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
and our 16 academic departments and their constituent units, institutes and centres, located across
multiple sites in Oxford (the Science Area and Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Old Road campus and
hospital sites in Headington), and clinical research units in Africa and Asia.

World-leading programmes, housed in state-of-the-art facilities, cover the full range of scientific endeavour from
the molecule to the population. Our partnerships with the local NHS Trusts promotes cohesiveness and
responsiveness at the interfaces between our mutual teaching, training, research and clinical activities,
and enables patients to benefit from close links between medical research and healthcare delivery.

We have been ranked number one for the past 14 years in the Times Higher Education Subject Rankings
for clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences.

For more information please visit: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk