Partnerships Business Development Representative

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege in Dubai is seeking a proactive Business Development professional to build and manage a targeted pipeline of healthcare data partners, spanning modalities and market segments. You will identify data holders, strategic contacts, channel partners, and brokers to fuel growth.

You will conduct first-touch conversations, assess dataset quality and licensing flexibility, and create concise handoff briefs for Partnerships and Healthcare teams, while keeping Salesforce updated with key sourcing

Qualifications

• Experience in business development or outbound sourcing in fast-moving environments.
• Strong research, prospecting, and qualification skills.
• Ability to discuss data assets and commercialization credibly with external stakeholders.
• Highly organized, metrics-driven pipeline management approach.
• Experience in healthcare data, healthcare partnerships, or AI data ecosystems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a targeted pipeline of prospective healthcare data partners across key modalities and market segments
• Map the market to identify data holders, strategic contacts, channel partners, and brokers
• Prospect into new partners through outbound email, calls, LinkedIn, referrals, and conferences
• Run first-touch discovery conversations to evaluate dataset quality, licensing posture, and commercial flexibility
• Create concise handoff briefs for Strategic Partnerships and Healthcare teams
• Maintain pipeline hygiene in Salesforce and monitor key sourcing metrics
• Support the development of segmentation and prioritization frameworks for prospective partners

Skills

Business development

Prospecting / outreach

Stakeholder communication

Pipeline management

Research & qualification

Healthcare data domain

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a targeted pipeline of prospective healthcare data partners across key modalities and market segments
• Map the market to identify data holders, strategic contacts, channel partners, and brokers
• Prospect into new partners through outbound email, calls, LinkedIn, referrals, and conferences
• Run first-touch discovery conversations to evaluate dataset quality, licensing posture, and commercial flexibility
• Create concise handoff briefs for Strategic Partnerships and Healthcare teams
• Maintain pipeline hygiene in Salesforce and monitor key sourcing metrics
• Support the development of segmentation and prioritization frameworks for prospective partners

Requirements

• Experience in business development, partnerships, or outbound sourcing in a fast-moving environment
• Strong skills in research, prospecting, and qualification
• Ability to speak credibly with external stakeholders about data assets and commercialization
• Highly organized and metrics-oriented approach to pipeline management
• Experience in healthcare data, healthcare partnerships, or AI data ecosystems strongly preferred

About the Company

Protege is building a platform to solve the challenge of accessing the right training data for AI, facilitating the secure, efficient, and privacy‑centric exchange of AI training data.