Simplyhealth
Business Development Manager
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About The Role
Business Development Manager
Contract – Permanent
Location - Hybrid (largely home-based with one monthly visit to Head Office in Andover, at own expense)
Salary - Basic £40,000 with OTE to £56,000
Hours - Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
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. Added to that we’re the first health insurer in the UK to be awarded B-Corp status in recognition of our significant achievements in sustainability, in addition to our ambitious environmental and social responsibility goals.
Ready to build a career in corporate sales with expert mentoring and genuine progression?
We're looking for a motivated, ambitious sales professional who is hungry to learn, quick to build relationships and excited by the opportunity to develop a successful career in business development.
This is a fantastic time to join our growing business. You'll work directly alongside – and be mentored by – our Head of New Business, giving you the opportunity to develop your commercial skills, learn from an experienced sales leader and make a real impact from day one.
Your focus will be on developing new corporate relationships with brokers, intermediaries and employers, helping organisations discover the value of our market-leading corporate health plan and dental solutions.
What You'll Be Doing
As our Business Development Manager, you'll be responsible for identifying, developing and winning new business opportunities across our corporate health and dental portfolio.
You'll
- Build and manage a healthy pipeline of new business opportunities through brokers, intermediaries and direct corporate clients.
- Develop strong relationships with key decision-makers and trusted adviser networks.
- Work closely with our Head of New Business to develop sales strategies, attend client meetings and convert opportunities into long-term partnerships.
- Lead discovery conversations, understand client needs and present tailored, compelling solutions.
- Manage negotiations through to successful contract completion.
- Create and maintain strategic account plans to maximise growth opportunities.
- Use Salesforce to accurately manage your pipeline, forecasts and sales activity.
- Share market intelligence, competitor insight and customer feedback to help shape our future proposition.
- Collaborate across the wider business to deliver an outstanding customer experience and ensure successful onboarding of new clients.
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About You
What we're looking for
We're less interested in finding someone who already knows everything about healthcare benefits and more interested in finding someone with the drive, attitude and ambition to become exceptional.
You'll Ideally Have
- A genuine passion for sales and developing new business.
- Confidence building relationships with business decision-makers.
- A proactive, self-motivated approach with a strong desire to learn quickly.
- Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
- The ability to manage multiple opportunities and prioritise effectively.
- Experience in B2B sales, account management or business development (healthcare, employee benefits or insurance experience is advantageous but not essential).
Why join us?
- Work alongside and be mentored by our Head of New Business.
- Join at an exciting stage of growth with genuine opportunities to develop your career.
- Build relationships with leading corporate brokers and intermediaries.
- Sell a portfolio of high-quality health and dental products that make a real difference to people's wellbeing.
- Be part of a collaborative, supportive team where your success is recognised and rewarded.
If you're ambitious, commercially minded and ready to accelerate your career in business development, we'd love to hear from you.
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What’s In It For You
As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:
- Sales commission
- Generous pension with a 10% pension gift from us when you contribute 4%
- 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, shopping vouchers and more)
- Your own fully funded health or dental 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 depending on your role, 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.
Your Recruitment Journey
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
- Face-to-face interview including presentation
- 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.
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