In the Spotlight: Bitesize Bio’s Business Development Manager

This month, we’re sitting down with Sarah Farrow, Bitesize Bio’s Business Development Manager, to learn more about building meaningful connections, Halloween, and what it’s like to be “professionally nosey”.

Sarah never set out to work in business development, but turns out she’s a natural fit. With a degree in biotechnology and dreams of staying in science, she ended up working as a science teacher during the 2009 recession when jobs were scarce and relocating wasn’t an option.

In 2011, she “fell into recruitment”, where she honed her skills in connecting people, solving problems, and asking good questions. This helped her hit her recruitment sales targets. After a stint helping a biotech company find a new sales manager, she found herself wondering… what if she just did the job herself?

Enter Bitesize Bio. After meeting our founder, Nick, at a conference, Sarah made the leap and now brings a mix of scientific curiosity, commercial savvy, and unfiltered honesty to her role as Business Development Manager.

Sarah’s superpower is networking. She’s curious, approachable, and great at starting conversations. Whether it’s chatting at a conference or messaging someone on LinkedIn, she’s more focused on long-term relationships than transactions. As a result, she’d “rather walk away from a deal than push something that’s not the right fit.”

What she loves most about her job is getting to know the people behind the companies and figuring out how they can be helped. “I talk to people professionally,” she laughs. “I’m just professionally nosey, really! Curious about what people are working on and how we can actually support them in a way that makes sense.”

If you follow Sarah on LinkedIn, you probably already know she’s got a sharp sense of humor. But what you might not know is that she transforms her garden into a full-blown Halloween attraction every October.

When she’s not chasing ducks off the lawn or planning her next spooky setup, she’s dreaming of her alternate life as a travel blogger. Her favorite spots? Dubrovnik, Meteora, Ronda, and (of course) Vegas. “Because it’s fun and doesn’t pretend to be anything that it’s not.”

She also drinks about 10 cups of tea a day and firmly believes no meeting should start without one. Same, Sarah, Same.

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