Business Development Officer

Overview

In this role you will drive commercial success for the St John and St Elizabeth Hospital by managing relationships with key referrers and promoting services across GP, consultant, and allied health networks. You will align marketing and business development activities with the hospital’s strategic direction, supporting inductions, project work, and engagement events. You will analyse market and financial data to influence activity and referral growth, while expanding awareness among local businesses. This is a chance to shape growth for a leading private, charity hospital with a strong community impact. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to turn insights into profitable leads.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with consultants and allocate resources by priority
• Maximise consultant time utilisation and overall capacity
• Contribute to new consultant inductions and practice setup
• Lead specialty-specific projects to develop best-practice services
• Collaborate with consultant leads to run purposeful specialty meetings aligned with strategy
• Create events to engage GPs and Consultants
• Gather market intelligence to inform new initiatives
• Provide feedback on services to the team
• Promote GP educational programme and related events
• Analyse financial and activity data to drive business decisions
• Leverage local business knowledge to raise awareness and generate referrals for self-pay and PMI opportunities

Key requirements

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent BD experience)
• At least 1 year of business development and/or sales experience
• Ability to work independently and decide when to seek guidance, delivering to deadlines
• Working knowledge of Independent Hospitals
• Independent hospital sector experience
• Proven track record of managing projects collaboratively and under pressure

• Independent decision-making
• Collaborative and professional
• Stakeholder management
• Financial and activity-based data analysis
• Market intelligence gathering
• Project management

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