Business Development Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

If youre a creative thinker, with a commercial mind, a self-motivated natural organiser, and great at relationship-building, you can become a part of our professional team of fourteen speech and language therapists and three administration staff. You will have particular responsibility for developing our unique therapy and training programmes for private sector patients and therapists, growing our profile in the UK and developing an international presence including the Middle East, North America and Asia. We see this as a great role for an ambitious individual who is eager to learn and build their career in healthcare.

Reporting to the Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, you will be responsible for developing a business and marketing plan alongside a detailed action plan focussing on the identified and new areas of growth to deliver revenue targets. You will work closely with the specialist speech and language therapists at the Centre and with our colleagues across Whittington Health NHS Trust.

You will play a pivotal role in identifying opportunities to grow our services, developing relationships with clinical teams, key health funders and commissioning leaders. This will involve researching international and domestic market opportunities and recommending priority areas for growth; understanding the current product and service offerings of the MPC and commoditising these at a price point that is attractive to grow the business; marketing and selling the products on an international scale, cold calling where necessary, as well as developing long term national and international relationships.

You will also identify, engage and convert prospective philanthropic supporters, including but not limited to major donors and corporate partners. You will also proactively build and maintain relationships with local businesses and organisations, some of which already support the Centre as donors and as in-kind supporters.

We are particularly interested in hearing from people outside of the NHS and healthcare setting, who will bring their sales and development skills to this worthwhile cause.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Evidence of strategic thinking and innovation
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
• Ability to work as part of a team and actively contribute to its success
• Ability to absorb new information quickly

Desirable

• Experience of securing philanthropic funding from individuals, charitable trusts and foundations
• Experience and ability to develop 'outside the box' creative approaches to securing gifts and delivering projects

Skills

Essential

• Delivery focused, self-motivated and proactive approach to problem solving
• Ability to analyse and effectively present data and identify areas for improvement

Skills

Essential

• Competent with relevant Microsoft Office programmes eg. Excel, Publisher, Access and other relevant software packages

Qualifications

Essential

• Trained to Degree level
• Masters/Post Graduate Qualification or considerable demonstrable evidence operating at that level

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Michael Palin Centre

13-15 Pine Street

London

EC1R 0JG

Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)