Oarline
Founding Business Development Manager, Dental (UK)
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Location: Manchester or Leeds preferred, North of England essential.
Type: Full-time, permanent.
Reports to: André Santos, Co-Founder.
Compensation: £50,000 to £55,000 base, car allowance, and a share of the recurring revenue from every client you bring in, paid for as long as they stay and you're with us. Pension and holiday as standard.
The Company: Oarline
We've spent a decade getting very good at one thing: helping dental practices win private patients. Hundreds of practices in the US run on our work. Now we're bringing it to the UK, into a market where NHS and mixed practices are going private up and down the country and most aren't sure how to make private patients choose them.
We need one person to build the UK side of this with us. You'd be our first hire here, and the doors we walk through, the partners we work with and the practices we win all start with you.
Oarline is the UK brand of Pain-Free Dental Marketing, dental-only since 2015 and profitable in the US.
The role
You bring the relationships that get us in front of practices in the North. André does the closing in year one, with you alongside, and you take on more of it as the UK proof builds. Delivery and the day-to-day are handled by an established team, so your time goes on relationships and winning clients.
The principals you can already reach, and the advisers who influence them, are the heart of this job. In year one that looks like:
- Getting us in the room. You bring the warm introductions to practice owners across would Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and the towns around them. André runs the early conversations and signs the clients, with you in the room, and as the UK proof builds you take on more of the closing yourself, backed by a proven method.
- Building the partner network. Real relationships with the accountants, brokers, plan consultants and coaches who advise mixed and NHS-heavy practices, the kind that send introductions without being chased.
- Being our face at the events. The dental shows and the study clubs where the real conversations happen.
- Telling us the truth about the market. What practices object to, what partners think of our model, where the pitch lands and where it doesn't. We change things based on what you tell us.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
You won't write copy, run ads or manage campaigns. We have a team for that, and they're good. You bring the doors and the relationships; we bring the method.
What's in it for you
You're early, and that's the point. The partners, the pitch, the patch, you shape the lot. You'd be building the UK from the ground up, not inheriting someone else's machine, and if you do it well the role grows with the business, into Head of UK with the next hires reporting to you.
A founder in the trenches, not a boss at a distance. André is in the room for the early deals, bringing a closing method proven over a decade and decisions get made in days, not quarters.
We have built the offer around UK realities. NHS pressure, UDA contracts, GDC and ASA requirements. We have done the work, and we are honest about what we are still learning. We don't do the pushy, overpromising marketing that makes principals wince. The people you introduce get a straight, useful conversation, not a pitch that embarrasses you.
We're honest about what the work can and can't do. It brings the right patients to the door, but the practice still has to convert them, and plenty sits outside anyone's control. The work is good and proven, and we won't ask you to promise results we can't guarantee.
How the money works
We built the pay around one idea: you share in what you build.
A fair base of £50,000 to £55,000, plus a car allowance for a job spent on the road. That covers your life while you build. On top of it, a share of the recurring fee from every client you bring in, paid every month for as long as that client stays with us and you're with us. Build a book of practices that stick around and it pays you month after month, for as long as they do. The one that churns in a quarter doesn't. We'll set out the numbers with you at offer.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
There are no UK clients yet, which is exactly why you're the first hire, and why being early is where the upside is. We won't pretend the first months aren't a build. If you'd rather a fair wage plus a real share of what you build than a bigger salary and no upside, you'll like how this works. Do it well and we'll make sure staying is the easy choice.
Who thrives here
You can get us in front of principals now. You have live, warm relationships with dental practice owners, the kind where a message from you turns into a meeting. Across the North especially, and a wider UK network is a real plus. This is the single most important thing we're hiring for, and we'll ask about it.
3-5+ years selling to UK dental practices, at a plan provider, dental software firm, supplier, finance house or similar. You know what a UDA is and what handing back a contract means.
You build your own week. Nobody hands you a route plan, and you wouldn't want one.
You sell by diagnosis, not pitch. You'd rather walk away from a poor fit than sign someone who'll churn in four months. That's how we sell, and we hire people who already think that way.
You say the hard thing early. If the pricing or the pitch is off, we hear it from you that week.
What you'll have built in a year
A network of principals and partners that's producing real meetings, not just a list of contacts.
The first wave of UK clients, won together: you opened the doors, and you took on more of the closing as the year went on.
We'll set the specific numbers together at offer, and we'll both mean them.
How to apply
No cover letter. Send:
- Your CV or LinkedIn profile.
- Half a page on one question: how many dental principals would take a meeting on your name alone, and what's one relationship you've opened recently, how did you do it, and where did it go? We want to understand how you build trust, not to collect your contacts.
Email careers@oarline.co.uk. We reply to everyone who sends the note.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location