Business Development Operations Consultant

Patient Access Collaborative

Business Development Operations Consultant at Kintiga focusing on BD operations and proposal management. Support business development with structured approaches and effective collaboration across teams.

Posted 4/26/2026full-timeGhent • 🇧🇪 BelgiumMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own core BD operations while leading and supporting high‑quality proposals
Create structure and momentum across outreach, preparation, follow‑up, and proposal delivery.
Free senior leaders to focus on high‑value client engagement while strengthening our data‑driven approach to business development.
Consolidate and structure the client and contact “universe” within CRM systems, ensuring data quality, segmentation, and usability for outreach and reporting.
Design and execute account and contact strategies (with clear prioritisation for Benelux), applying segmentation frameworks to support targeted outreach campaigns.
Track leads, opportunities, and proposal activity through the pipeline, producing clear reporting on outreach activity, pipeline health, and impact.
Analyse BD data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities, supporting evidence‑based commercial decisions.
Develop, document, and continuously improve BD processes, playbooks, templates, and ways of working that can scale across the global commercial team.
Lead and support the end‑to‑end proposal process, from opportunity triage through to submission and contract award.
Provide “light‑touch” but high‑quality proposal support where appropriate, including pulling relevant case studies, credentials, references, and drafting proposal shells from templates.
Coordinate proposal inputs across Business Development and Delivery teams, ensuring clarity on roles, timelines, and expectations.
Ensure proposals are compliant, well‑structured, client‑focused, and aligned with Kintiga’s value proposition and commercial standards.
Maintain and evolve a central library of proposal content, case studies, and reference material.
Support senior leaders—particularly in Benelux—with structured preparation for client meetings, including briefings, context, objectives, and follow‑up actions.
Help ensure client interactions are intentional, well‑prepared, and consistently followed through.
Partner closely with Business Development, Marketing, Finance, and Delivery teams to enable effective, joined‑up commercial execution.
Contribute to BD pipeline meetings, quarterly planning, and global commercial syncs—sharing learning, templates, and processes that strengthen the wider business.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Degree educated (BSc or MSc) in Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences or Business
Experience in business development or sales operations and proposal management, ideally within consulting, life sciences, biotech or healthcare environments.
Strong proposal writing, editing and coordination skills, with the ability to absorb complex technical input and translate it into clear, compelling commercial narratives.
Highly organised with excellent project management capability, able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with attention to detail.
Confident working with CRM systems (e.g. HubSpot), BD data and standard productivity tools (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint) to track performance and support decision‑
Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguity by designing and maintaining effective processes, pipelines, templates and plans.
Comfortable operating in a matrix environment, working collaboratively across teams, leaders and geographies.
Self‑motivated, proactive and detail‑driven, with strong interpersonal and communication skills and a focus on enabling others to perform at their best.
Native-level Dutch & fluent French speaker, with English at a business level language.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary (dependent on experience)
Extensive benefit programme
Company-wide meet-ups
Exposure to an international work environment with cross-border project responsibilities.
Hybrid environment – 1 day per week in the office (Ghent Office on a Tuesday).
Flexible working – to help maintain a better work/life balance.

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Hard Skills & Tools

proposal writingproposal managementproject managementdata analysisCRM systemssegmentation frameworkspipeline trackingbusiness developmentsales operationsprocess design

Soft Skills

organizational skillscommunication skillsinterpersonal skillsattention to detailproactiveself-motivatedcollaborativeability to manage multiple prioritiesability to absorb complex informationability to translate technical input