Join Our Team as a Business Development Manager – Healthcare (UK)
Are you a results‑driven Business Development professional with a deep understanding of the UK healthcare landscape — particularly the NHS — and a proven ability to win complex, solution‑based opportunities?
Avidity Science is recruiting a Business Development Manager – Healthcare (UK) to drive growth across our Clinical and Decontamination portfolios. This is a national, field‑based role focused on new business acquisition, account development, and project‑led solution selling within the healthcare sector.
You’ll play a pivotal role in expanding our UK healthcare footprint, working closely with customers, OEM partners and internal project teams to deliver high‑quality, value‑driven solutions that genuinely improve patient environments.
This role is UK‑wide and will involve extensive travel.
Why Avidity Science?
- Competitive Package: Salary up to £70,000, commensurate with experience, plus sales commissions opportunity and car allowance.
- Comprehensive Benefits: 25 days’ holiday, pension contributions matched up to 8% of basic salary, private healthcare, life insurance, enhanced family leave and more.
- Market Impact: Play a frontline role in supporting NHS trusts and private healthcare providers with critical clinical and decontamination solutions.
- Complex, Meaningful Sales: Work on long‑term, project‑led opportunities where relationship‑building, credibility and solution design really matter.
- Collaborative Delivery Model: Strong internal project, service and technical teams to support you from opportunity through to installation, handover and beyond.
- Autonomy with Support: A high‑trust role offering independence, backed by experienced UK and regional leadership.
Your Role
As Business Development Manager – Healthcare (UK), you will:
- Drive growth of Avidity Science’s Healthcare (Clinical and Decontamination) business across the UK, working closely with the UK Business Development Manager
- Identify, develop and win new business opportunities and accounts, with a strong focus on NHS and healthcare environments
- Build and maintain a robust opportunity pipeline, ensuring accurate tracking, forecasting and governance through Salesforce
- Engage with end users and OEM partners to deliver complex, solution‑based and project‑led sales
- Develop deep understanding of customer applications and operational needs, proposing tailored, value‑driven solutions
- Collaborate closely with internal project teams to ensure smooth handover and successful project execution
- Develop and propose appropriate service and support solutions aligned to customer requirements
- Deliver system handover training to customers, ensuring a seamless transition to customer support teams
- Monitor, analyse and report on market trends, customer needs and competitor activity
- Build trusted, long‑term relationships across clinical, estates, procurement and engineering stakeholders
What We’re Looking For
- Healthcare Business Development Experience: A proven track record in business development, with demonstrable success in winning new business within the UK healthcare sector.
- NHS Experience (Essential): Hands‑on experience working with the NHS — understanding its structures, procurement processes, stakeholders and decision‑making environment is critical for success in this role.
- Solution & Project Selling Expertise: Experience selling complex, solution‑based or project‑led offerings rather than transactional products.
- Commercial & Influencing Skills: Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence and close deals at multiple levels of an organisation.
- Customer‑Centric Mindset: Confident engaging with both end users and OEM partners, with credibility and professionalism.
- Self‑Motivated & Resilient: Proactive, results‑oriented and comfortable working autonomously in a national, field‑based role.
- CRM Discipline: Comfortable managing pipelines, forecasts and opportunity data within CRM systems (Salesforce experience preferred).
- Mobility: Willingness and ability to travel extensively across the UK.
What Success Looks Like
- Consistent growth in new business revenue within the healthcare segment
- Expansion of the Clinical and Decontamination account base across the UK
- A strong, sustainable and well‑governed opportunity pipeline
- High‑quality project delivery and excellent customer satisfaction
Interview Process
- Initial phone screen with HR
- Two in‑person interview stages
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you’re an experienced healthcare Business Development professional who understands the NHS environment and thrives on winning complex, meaningful projects, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now to join Avidity Science and help shape the future of healthcare environments across the UK.