Business Development Manager (XN07)

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Business Development Manager to support the Pathology CSU. This role includes developing strategies to enhance services, ensuring effective operations, and managing staff. Candidates should have a degree, managerial experience, and a strong understanding of Pathology. This position offers a competitive salary and a chance to contribute to high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience of middle management level.
• Experience of working within a Pathology environment.
• Experience of budget planning and management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the business development strategy.
• Ensure CSU functions as an integral part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
• Assist in the performance management of the CSU.

Skills

Management of complex budget

Strong analytical skills

Negotiation and influencing skills

Ability to communicate in a complex service

Change management skills

Education

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Management qualification or post graduate diploma

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for an exceptional individual to join the Pathology CSU management team as a Business Development Manager.

This role offers an outstanding opportunity to play a key part in delivering sustainable and high-quality services for patients and clinicians across Leeds and beyond.

The Pathology CSU is going through a time of significant changes with a transition to the Centre for Laboratory Medicine based at St James hospital and a new regional I.T. system, and further development plans to work more effectively with our partners in nearby Trusts.

The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills and a proven track record in service and process development within a Pathology environment, as well as leadership skills and the operational grip to support consistent delivery of key patient-centred pieces of work.

The Pathology CSU has seen significant changes with technological and scientific advances in recent months and this provides a great deal of scope for business development as we seek to maximise the benefits of these.

Details

Date posted: 30 October 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: C9298-PATH-481

Job locations: St. James\'s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF

• St. James's University Hospital
• Beckett Street
• Leeds
• LS9 7TF

Main duties of the job

The post holder provides management support to the CSU providing a key business development function within the Pathology CSU. He/she will have responsibility for developing and delivering our business development strategy to support the CSUs role as a specialist regional and national provider of Pathology services.

The post holder will work closely with members of their CSU as well as the Trust contracting team and external stakeholders in the strategic development of the services provided by the CSU. This will include the development of relationships with key internal and external partners.

The post holder will ensure the CSU functions as an integral part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and that CSU and Trust-wide objectives are achieved simultaneously.

Devolved responsibility for both pay and non-pay budgets in the CSU

Be able if required to take responsibility for staff who may work Trust wide across several disciplines and clinical specialties

Assist in the performance management of the CSU

Have the ability to line manage administrative, clerical and secretarial staff within the CSU and take management responsibility for their personal development and performance review if required

Responsible for the co-ordination of the procurement of medical and scientific capital equipment (Via MSE bids)Assist in the operational aspects of major service and capital planning

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

• Patient-centred
• Collaborative
• Fair
• Accountable
• Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through this.

Essential qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, including a management qualification or post graduate diploma
• Experience of middle management level
• Experience of working within a Pathology environment
• Evidence of successful operational management in a multi-professional environment
• Experience of day-to-day people management and ability to develop others
• Experience of budget planning and management
• Experience in devising and delivering business plans and strategies
• Ability to proactively innovate potential revenue streams, devising pricing strategies / mechanisms and service level agreements
• Operational planning and implementation
• Understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy
• Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy
• Ability to communicate in a complex service
• Evidence of developing effective working relationships within and beyond employing organisation
• Effective team leader and team player

Desirable qualifications

• Masters level in a related field

Skills & behaviours

• Management of complex budget
• Operational planning and implementation including strategic planning and options appraisal, and change management
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy
• Experience in working in partnership with others to develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies, including managing change
• Ability to work under significant and sustained pressure and to highly demanding and often conflicting timescales
• Ability to maintain systems for keeping abreast of changes in the NHS and their impact on the CSU
• Commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making
• Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery
• Awareness of strategic direction and ensure local business plans take account of the overall direction of the Trust
• Ability to communicate and network effectively, negotiate and influence others taking into account the multi-professional and organisational cultures
• Ability to produce a range of documents to varying audiences, both internal and external to the Trust some of which is of a confidential, sensitive or contentious nature
• Possess change management skills to include service reconfiguration
• Ability to establish processes and systems within the CSU to develop and monitor financial and business plans across specialist services
• Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy
• Effective team leader and team player with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse and highly demanding organisation

Additional requirements

• 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
• Able to develop effective working partnership skills within and beyond employing organisation
• Presentation skills using a variety of options and software packages.
• Manage clinical and business risks developing action plans to improve performance.
• Ability to manage teams based on different sites across the organisation

Experience

• 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 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

Disclosures

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name: Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address: St. James\'s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF

Employer's website: https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/