Health Sector Business Development Manager

We are looking for a Business Development Manager to grow our business across the Health Sector

Make a difference and share the rewards of our growth by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good solutions, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers, creative thinkers, and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility, and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us

The winner of two Queen’s Award for Innovation, Informed Solutions delivers products and services for large-scale digital transformation using data and AI. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by a growing number of organisations working in national, regional, and private sector healthcare settings.

Business Development Manager Position

We are seeking a Business Development Manager to work as a leader within our Health Sector Team

Two-time winners of the Queen’s Awards for Innovation in 2018 and 2022, Informed Solutions products and services help clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change, improving customer satisfaction by creating better online experiences and transforming operational effectiveness through AI-enabled and data science-powered decision support.

As Business Development Manager you will have a key role in building trusted relationships and developing business with new clients with the healthcare sector. You will:

• Play a role in securing enterprise-level sales within the healthcare sector at national and regional levels within public and private sector settings
• Lead business development efforts of the wider healthcare team, including leading on bid and proposition development.
• In partnership with the Healthcare Sector Lead, direct and manage prospecting and new business activity through the end-to-end business development cycle from prospecting to proposal delivery
• Collaborate with Health Sector Leads in Identifying ‘good’ business (profitable, relevant, good for our business, and good for our people).
• All opportunities identified will need to be qualified for factors including profitability and alignment with business objectives and be approved by the Business Management Team. 
• Ensure a collaborative and respectful approach for team working on all business development activity through the sales cycle.
• Build strategic partnerships and alliances from across our marketplace to ensure we offer the most attractive mix of capability and capacity to our prospective clients.
• Help to continually evolve our healthcare value propositions for both transformation services and our product lines.
• Build strong, lasting client relationships based on trust, including negotiating and building rapport with senior stakeholders.
• Maintain competitiveness, continually improving our market offering, and evolving our business development operating model

Key competencies for success

• Resilience and adaptability to work effectively in environments of uncertainty, change, and agile delivery.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes within tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to navigate differing perspectives and maintain positive working relationships.
• Sound professional judgement and decision-making in complex environments where risk must be carefully managed.
• Excellent communication skills, including clear written outputs and confident verbal delivery.

We work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving consultancy environment where no two days are the same. This requires resilience, adaptability, and the ability to manage change with a positive mindset. While this pace and variety won’t suit everyone, many of our colleagues thrive on the challenge, the opportunity to grow quickly, and the tangible impact of their work.

Location

There is flexibility to be based out of our London or Manchester offices; however, given the nature of the role, you will need to travel to co-locate with colleagues and clients across the UK, developing strategic relationships through the appropriate combination of face-to-face and digital engagement.

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of. 

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.