Business Development Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated person who would like to join our exciting team at Imperial College Healthcare Private Care as a Business Development Manager on a fixed term maternity cover.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to develop their skills further, and gain invaluable experience whilst working with a great team.

The post holder will report to the Business Development Director.

The successful candidate is required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification. This is an exciting and varied role that will provide a great learning experience for someone who wishes to further develop their business development, project management and marketing skills.

The Trust provides various excellent training programmes to support career progression as well as mentorship opportunities from different staff groups to support your learning and development needs.

Main duties of the job

• Prospect for and evaluate service ideas arising from the wide stakeholder group and, where commercially viable, develop those ideas into full business plans or business cases as appropriate to the scale of the proposal, ensuring the involvement of Director of Business Development and from the relevant department leads.
• Lead on business development and marketing projects and initiatives.
• Develop new commercial proposals, or respond to those proposed by purchasers, for the provision of existing services, using good judgement and analytical evidence to ensure the IPH / Trust income is maximised and that every commercial agreement is making a demonstrable contribution to the Trust's financial position.
• Seek new commercial opportunities with new and existing partners, developing innovative services, business models and ways of working to secure additional private healthcare and commercial income streams.
• Undertake research into private and commercial healthcare markets in order to brief and inform the Director of Business Development and other stakeholders for key meetings, high level decision making and development of the private patient and commercial strategy.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree level qualification or equivalent training and/or experience.

Desirable criteria

• Master's in Business Administration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of owning and writing complex business cases for clinical services
• Broad knowledge of utilising information technology to provide management information reports, particularly financial and activity reporting
• Experience at dealing with very senior people both internally and externally
• Proven experience of working successfully as part of several teams
• A successful record of achievement in managing change, particularly with regards to the effect on staff

Desirable criteria

• Experience at project management, with a good understanding of the complexities involved

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to build strong and credible relationships at a senior level across all operational and financial disciplines and across organisations
• Excellent judgement, and the ability to act autonomously in the interests of the business
• Ability to produce clear and concise written material, including the analysis of data, using appropriate IT packages including spreadsheets and PowerPoint
• Strong management skills

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 624.5KB)
• FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT FORM (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)