Senior Business Development Manager
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Salary
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£55,200
Going rate
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This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 3556 (97% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £55,200, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3556 Sales accounts and business development managers Most likely code | £38,600 | £55,200 | £55,200 | £55,200 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
This is an opportunity to lead and shape business development across Imperial College Health Partners, helping us build a sustainable pipeline of work and turn priority opportunities into successful partnerships and programmes.
You will work across ICHP, alongside senior leaders, our Plus service leads and delivery teams, to identify priority markets and clients, develop compelling propositions and lead complex opportunities from initial engagement through to scoping, pricing, proposal development, contracting and mobilisation.
As Senior Business Development Manager, you will provide organisation-wide leadership for ICHP’s business development approach. You will maintain strategic oversight of our opportunity pipeline and help ensure that opportunities are well qualified, commercially viable and aligned with our strategy.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will establish and continuously improve ICHP’s business development standards, systems and governance. You will also help build commercial capability across the organisation. You will be a senior source of business development and commercial expertise, providing clear advice on strategic fit, pricing, delivery feasibility and risk.
Within this role, you will represent ICHP with senior stakeholders across the NHS, academia, industry, life sciences and the wider health and care sector. You will build a network of customers, collaborators and partners with whom we can work to deliver our ambitious strategy.
About Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP)
ICHP is a partnership organisation bringing together healthcare providers and universities across North West London. We work collaboratively across our health and research ecosystem in NWL and with industry partners to deliver innovation in practice.
Our goals:
- Health: a healthier population, enabled by a systematic focus on prevention, detection and treatment of disease
- Create: cultivate the best conditions for the end-to-end testing and scaling of innovation
- Advance: data-driven change, harnessing our capabilities and assets across the lifecycle
- Sustain: support our members with the problems of today, enabling an NHS Fit for the Future
- Shape: the future of health through investments in advanced technologies and funding models
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Fontana Job title: Associate Director of Strategy and Insights Email address: [email protected]
Information Prior to Interview
We understand that you may wish to discuss the role and organisation with the recruiting manager and/or those who work here as part of the preparation for your application. To enable this, and as part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, rather than offer individual calls, a Webinar has been scheduled for Monday 19th October at 12noon via this link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/357491289938998?p=9mNLHZ1YbK6ALI9UtQ, which will enable all prospective applicants to join and ask any questions they may have at the same time. This webinar will be recorded, and can be shared with applicants who may not be able to make time scheduled time and date.
Should there be any specific questions that are felt not to be appropriate for the webinar as they are as they are in relation to individual/personal circumstances, they can be submitted via email to the recruiting manager in advance of the webinar.
ICHP reserves the right to close the application window early in line with significant interest in the role.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Sales accounts and business development managers (SOC 3556) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~448k in sample- Middle half £40,144–71,448
- Median £53,820
- Going rate £55,200
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £38,600–49,680
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 3556 going rate of £55,200. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.