Business Development Manager

Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people’s lives? Do you want to be part of a company that is striving to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK? At Simplyhealth, our health plans provide the opportunity to attend routine dental treatments, visit the optician, have complementary therapies (e.g. physio) and much more by providing financial support to those that really need it. 

But we’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing.

As Business Development Manager, you’ll lead the way in working with a portfolio of intermediaries to identify, develop, and win new business. Working alongside the wider corporate sales team, this role will be key in achieving our growth ambitions and vision of making healthcare truly accessible to all across the UK. You will be responsible for creating, implementing and maintaining an intermediary account plan across the portfolio to maximise the growth opportunities across each of the intermediaries that you work with.

There is a fantastic market opportunity ahead of Simplyhealth at the moment. With consumers having unprecedented awareness of their health needs and adopting data and digital solutions, we’re looking for a Business Development manager who is excited by the scale of opportunity in front of us and keen to be join us on our journey of becoming the best known health brand in the UK, second only to the NHS.

Key responsibilities

•     To proactively and strategically manage a portfolio of intermediaries and identify, develop and win new business opportunities, thereby delivering Simplyhealth’s Business Plan
•     Develop strategic relationships with a portfolio of Intermediary partners to generate new business by demonstrating the value of the Simplyhealth proposition.
•     Create and maintain intermediary account plans.
•     Proactively generate and manage a pipeline and respond to incoming new business opportunities, including both PPA and individual client opportunities.
•     Strategically Manage Preferred Provider Agreement relationships with Intermediaries, host quarterly business review meetings, and update senior stakeholders both internally and externally on performance
•     Maintain an in-depth knowledge and understanding of our products and services and be able to articulate them to clients, including the benefits they deliver to clients and end users, and our differentiators.
•     Know competitor products and services and understand the links to related health and wellbeing services such as PMI 

You’ll be an experienced Business Development Manager with a consultative approach and a growth mindset who has specifically worked with high value corporate accounts.

To be considered you must have:

• Significant experience managing large / high-value corporate client accounts or Intermediary Relationships
• Successful track record of commercial delivery and business development
• Excellent client relationship-building and stakeholder management skills
• Full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel regularly. 

Our dream candidate might also have:

• Experience in the employee healthcare benefits/ employee wellness marketplace

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

• Sales commission scheme 
• Company car
• Generous pension with a 6% pension gift from us
• 36 days holiday (with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days)
• Flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers and more)
• Your own health plan
• Access to a wellbeing hub
• Shopping discounts
• Recognition awards
• Give as you earn
• 3 volunteering days

We have a head office in Hampshire, but you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach. This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more.

We’re focused on providing an application, assessment and onboarding journey that is fair, consistent, diverse and inclusive for all, allowing us to hire top talent based on the skills and behaviours pivotal to your and our success.

Your process

• Screening call with Talent Acquisition Team
• Virtual Interview with the hiring manager and team
• Aptitude assessment
• Presentation/case study with the hiring manager and team
• Offer

Should you require any additional support with your application, or need us to make any adjustments for you, please contact our Talent Team; [email protected].”

Please note: Working for a purpose driven company like ours is a fantastic opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications after this time.