Business Development Manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals (Visa Sponsorship Available).

We are on the hunt for an extraordinary individual to augment our Pathology CSU management team in the capacity of a Business Development Manager.

Position: Business Development Manager
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary Range: £47,810 to £54,710 per annum
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom
Application Deadline: 20th November 2025

Job Responsibilities:
As a Business Development Manager, you will be an integral part of the CSU, providing vital business development functions within the Pathology CSU. Your main responsibility will be to formulate and execute our business development strategy, thereby aiding the CSU’s role as a specialist regional and national provider of Pathology services.

Your work will involve close collaboration with members of your CSU, the Trust’s contracting team, and external stakeholders to strategically enhance the services provided by the CSU. This will necessitate the cultivation of key relationships with internal and external partners.

You will ensure the smooth functioning of the CSU as an essential component of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and strive for the concurrent achievement of CSU and Trust-wide objectives. You will be accountable for both pay and non-pay budgets in the CSU and may be required to manage staff across various disciplines and clinical specialties. Other responsibilities include assisting in CSU performance management, line managing administrative personnel within the CSU, and coordinating the procurement of medical and scientific capital equipment.

Candidate Qualifications:

Mandatory:
• Degree-level education or equivalent professional qualification
• Demonstrable commitment to ongoing professional development, including a management qualification or post-graduate diploma
• Career progression through continued professional development
• Openness to undertake further training and development as identified through the PDP process

Preferred:
• Master’s degree in a related field

Skills & Behaviours:

Mandatory:
• Proven management of complex budgets
• Operational planning and implementation experience, including strategic planning, options appraisal, and change management
• Strong analytical skills, literacy, and numeracy
• Experience in partnering with others to develop, implement, and evaluate policies and strategies, including managing change
• Ability to work under significant pressure and meet demanding, often conflicting deadlines
• Demonstrated commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making
• Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery
• Effective communication, negotiation, and influence skills across multi-professional and organisational cultures
• Ability to produce a range of documents for varying audiences, both internal and external to the Trust, some of which may be confidential, sensitive, or contentious
• Change management skills, including service reconfiguration
• Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy
• Ability to establish processes and systems within the CSU to develop and monitor financial and business plans across specialist services working collaboratively with other CSU
• Effective team leadership skills and teamwork capability within a diverse and highly demanding organisation

Additional Requirements:

Mandatory:
• Change management skills, including service reconfiguration
• Analytical skills, literacy, and numeracy. Ability to analyse data and formulate reports
• Understanding and experience of information analysis essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
• Ability to develop effective working partnership skills within and beyond the employing organisation
• Presentation skills using a variety of options and software packages.
• Ability to manage clinical and business risks developing action plans to improve performance.
• Ability to manage teams based on different sites across the organisation

Experience:

Mandatory:
• Demonstrates an understanding of both the NHS culture and of the cultures of the different health professional groups
• Sound understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda to include priorities from, National, Local and Trust Targets
• Work within the Trusts Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions and Clinical Governance arrangements
• Work within the Trusts Capital and Corporate Planning procedures
• Understanding and experience of effective information analysis, data interpretation and presentation, and software applications essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
• Good sound knowledge and understanding of writing comprehensive business cases
• Ability to proactively innovate potential revenue streams, devising pricing strategies / mechanisms and service level agreements.
• Experience in devising and delivering business plans and strategies
• Work within the Trusts HR guidance and toolkits for HR processes to include workforce planning, recruitment and selection, honorary contracts
• Understanding of Trust Policy and Procedure, e.g. HR/Risk Management/Clinical Governance
• Understanding of management and operational arrangements in the Trust
• Knowledge of the working of the NHS and wider healthcare system within England
• Workforce and capacity planning and developing business cases
• Experience of working in a Pathology environment
• Day-to-day people management including appraisal and objective setting, recruitment and retention

Desirable:

• Experience in NHS management

Application Process: For more information and to apply, CLICK HERE.