Business Development Director - Cell & Gene Therapy (Europe)

Reporting to the Regional Director, Business Development Europe, this role is accountable for driving new business growth across Europe for Catalent's Cell & Gene Therapy development and commercial manufacturing services. This is a pure new-business, hunter role focused on originating, qualifying, and converting high-value CDMO opportunities with biotech and pharmaceutical clients across the CGT landscape. The Role

• Own and deliver new business revenue, pipeline, and bookings targets across Europe
• Proactively identify, pursue, and close new customer opportunities in Cell & Gene Therapy
• Build senior-level relationships within European biotech and pharma organisations
• Lead customer engagements, pitches, and negotiations through to contract signature
• Work cross-functionally with Technical, Manufacturing, Quality, and Proposal teams to shape winning solutions
• Drive opportunities through the full sales lifecycle, from first contact to MSA execution
• Represent Catalent at European partnering events, conferences, and industry meetings
• Maintain accurate opportunity and pipeline data in CRM
• Negotiate CDAs, proposals, and MSAs in line with commercial objectives
  
  Degree in Life Sciences (BSc, MSc, or PhD)
• Strong Cell and/or Gene Therapy experience (essential)
• 5-10 years' success in European life sciences business development, ideally within a CDMO
• Proven track record of winning new business, not account maintenance
• Existing network across European biotech and pharma
• Commercially driven, resilient, and highly self-motivated
• Able to articulate complex technical value propositions to senior stakeholders
• Strong negotiation, influencing, and communication skills (English required)
• Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
• Willing to travel extensively across Europe (up to 50%)
  
  Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.