Business Development Manager

United Kingdom

7/24/2025

• Location: remote, UK.
• Salary: £24,000 - £27,000 per annum (FTE £40,000 - £45,000pa)
• Hours: 21 per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Application deadline: 17th August 2025
• Interview Dates: 4th September 2025
  
  

About RNID

The national charity supporting 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus. Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus. We work with our communities and partners across industry, government, charity, education and more to change life for the better.

We champion the latest technology and the opportunities it brings. We know the value of a friendly face in local communities to support people where they need it most.

Join our team

We are a remote working organisation, with colleagues based across the UK in locations from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and everywhere in between. We come together in person twice a year for our Staff Summits, inspirational events hearing from external speakers and spending quality time with colleagues. We bring together the best of digital and in-person working in a modern, progressive organisation. We know our colleagues have responsibilities and interests outside work and we support that by offering sector-leading flexible working to all our staff from day one.

We strive to be an organisation that is connected, insightful, curious and passionate in everything we do.

Business Development Manager for our Community Services will focus and lead on:

• Analysing and unlocking opportunities for new businesses
• Implementing business development plans
• Supporting with getting new funding and bringing services to fruition
  
  

You will be responsible for identifying and building partnerships with NHS Trusts, Audiology Departments and ICBs to secure funding and expand our RNID Near You services across the UK. You’ll work closely with internal teams to develop business cases, manage stakeholder relationships, and ensure the successful launch of new RNID Near You contracts.

RNID Near You is our national community based service run by trained volunteers who can offer:

• a hearing check and information on how to book a full hearing test.
• basic hearing aid repairs, cleaning, and advice on using hearing aids.
• information on hearing aids, hearing loss, tinnitus, and related issues, including emotional and practical peer support from volunteers with lived experience.
  
  

What You'll Be Doing

• Identify and build relationships with potential funders such as NHS Foundation Trusts, Audiology Departments, and ICBs to support service expansion.
• Collaborate with the Bids and Tender Manager to secure funding and develop compelling business cases for new RNID Near You services.
• Implement business development plans in partnership with Heads of Operations, supporting various workstreams and projects.
• Analyse and evaluate new service opportunities, contributing to a pipeline of potential contracts and making strategic recommendations.
• Ensure delivery of growth targets, including the opening of at least four new service contracts per financial year in line with RNID’s multi-year plan.
  
  

You

A commercially minded professional with proven business development expertise specifically within the health sector, particularly in securing new contracts and driving service growth. You’ll bring a strategic mindset and ability to spot and seize opportunities through partnerships and projects. Your excellent relationship-building and communication skills will enable you to craft compelling proposals that resonate with stakeholders. A collaborative team player, you’ll thrive on bringing people together to achieve shared goals, and you’ll be motivated by purpose, with a strong understanding, or willingness to learn, about deaf culture and the communities we support.

What We Can Offer You

• 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
• Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
• Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
• Fully remote working with no core hours
• £26 remote working allowance every month
• In person whole staff conferences throughout the year
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Employee assistance programme that provides counselling sessions
• Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
• Hospital Saturday Fund health benefit
• Access to an event ticketing platform
  
  

Our commitment to diversity

We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments. If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.

RNID is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader.We offer interviews to any candidate that tells us they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.