Job Description
Location: Midlands. Onsite across Hub hospitals + some home based: Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Sheffield, Worcester.
Reports to: Group Sales & Business Development Director
Comprehensive Market Leading Remuneration and Package
Due to an internal promotion we have a new opportunity at Spire Healthcare to join us a
Business Development Director (BDD) and play a key role in driving commercial growth across our hospital network in the Midlands. You'll lead hospital business development and marketing teams, build strategic partnerships and deliver on revenue and activity targets as part of our Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
A compelling story...
Spire Healthcare was founded from the acquisition and rebranding of 25 Bupa hospitals in 2007. Substantial capital investment in the organisational infrastructure has led to our current standing as a very successful, FTSE 250 business. Spire is the largest independent healthcare provider in terms of revenue, operating from 38 hospitals and more than 50 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms across England, Wales and Scotland. We work closely with more than 8,740 distinguished consultants that in 2024, provided outstanding personalised care to more than 1.3 million patients.
Setting the precedence…
What sets us apart is our people, who are firmly committed to our Purpose, which is to make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this Purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion and collaboration across the business. This has enabled us to achieve sector leading inspection ratings underpinned by a safe, patient focussed working environment. Today, 98% of our hospitals are rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by Regulators and we are on track to achieve 100%.
Can you make a positive difference…
The team you will join operates within a very dynamically changing environment, providing you with the opportunity to establish and embed new ways of working collaboratively across our Hub based structure; you will cover our sites in the Midlands, across hospitals in the areas of Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Sheffield and Worcester.
Role
You will join a national team, reporting to the Group Sales & Business Development Director with key aspects of this exciting role including:
- Leading, managing and supporting the Hub Hospital sales, marketing and primary care teams
- Drive market share growth and patient demand across all payor groups
- Identifying opportunities to deliver local and central approaches to commercial delivery and support functions including our local marketing and primary care teams
- Mapping new and incremental business opportunities to deliver in-year and build future business plans for new services, local partnerships across your Hub
- Supporting your Hospital Directors to build key Consultants' practices, alongside identifying new Consultants to practice at our hospitals
- Designing and delivering new ways of working to improve and support Spire’s 'one-best way' including championing CRM/reporting systems and performance insights.
Interested?
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to show significant experience in business and commercial development,
this will have been gained working within the healthcare or medical sector. You are a natural leader, able to effect change in a complex multi-sited operation. You will show evidence of leading teams remotely and show the ability to flex your style to suit the various markets you will work across.
An effective team player and strong influencer, you build momentum that delivers future growth, whilst working successfully within a complex, matrix and multi-stakeholder environment.
We firmly believe that it is our people that make the business successful and everyone should have the opportunity to work in a motivated team, free from discrimination on any grounds. We, therefore, are keen to receive and review applications from all candidates of under-represented groups who feel they offer the requisite skills.
If you feel you could apply your experience to this role where you can positively impact peoples’ lives, we would like to hear from you.
