National Strategic Account Manager - Mid-Atlantic

Lifeskills Behavioral Health; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-Sponsored HSA, FSA, & DSA Tax

401K with Company Match

Multiple Health Plan Options

100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well- 

100% Company Paid Critical Illness (if

100% Company Paid Life & ADD

Generous Team Member Referral Program

Job summary

Lifeskills Behavioral Health is seeking a results-driven business development professional to expand our private-pay referral network in the Mid-Atlantic. You will build relationships with providers, educate communities about residential treatment, and close new accounts to help us reach admission goals.

This role offers a base salary of $100K–$135K plus a strong performance-based incentive and comprehensive company benefits.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in strategy or business development in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work interdependently with minimal oversight.
• Experience working with executives and department heads for information and/or insight.
• Background in corporate development, strategic partnerships, project management and/or sales.

Responsibilities

• Build a strategic regional growth plan by evaluating facility and market utilization data.
• Prioritize markets using web-based demographic data and economics.
• Collaborate with facility and corporate leadership to leverage strategic initiatives.
• Execute sales and retention strategies; close new business to meet targets.
• Present monthly/weekly reports identifying trends and opportunities.
• Coordinate with admissions to track referral source trends and growth opportunities.

Skills

Strategy

Business development

Executive collaboration

Sales

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

$100K-135K base salary + strong performance-based incentive

Lifeskills Behavioral Health is expanding our private-pay referral network — and we're looking for a business development professional in the Mid-Atlantic who thrives on building relationships and closing deals. Behavioral health experience is a plus; the drive to win is the requirement.

About Us:

Our residential treatment program provides hope for clients suffering from mental health and substance use disorders, helping them ensure sustained recovery. Located in beautiful Deerfield Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Lifeskills provides a secure and nurturing atmosphere for balanced recovery and healing.

Residential treatment program clients live in fully furnished townhomes that are professionally staffed 24‑hours a day. This realistic, home‑like setting allows residents to adapt their new coping skills within the local community and practice their daily routines while taking part in the therapeutic process. In our residential treatment program, we help our clients successfully transition back into their homes, family lives, and careers with newfound self‑esteem, direction, and control.

Why You Will Love Working with Us!

At Lifeskills South Florida, we are a dynamic, dedicated, and growing team of professionals deeply passionate about providing evidence‑based and personalized clinical care for mental health disorders and behavioral health conditions.

Since everyone has different experiences with mental health disorders, mental health therapies must be equally as unique to address those diverse needs. Working with qualified doctoral level clinicians at Lifeskills gives individuals the opportunity to develop personalized mental health treatment plans that address their needs and help them take the next step in their recovery.

Our team’s foundation is client centered care and clinical excellence through our 5‑star service commitment – Respect, Accountability, Integrity, Flexibility, Service, and Collaboration. We are committed to our team and our team is committed to our clients!

What we offer

• Collaborative environment dedicated to clinical excellence
• Company Supported Continuing Education & Certification
• Multiple Health Plan Options
• 100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well-Being Support
• 100% Company Paid Critical Illness (with health enrollment plan)
• 100% Company Paid Life & ADD
• 401K with Company Match
• Company-Sponsored HSA, FSA, & DSA Tax Savings Accounts
• Generous Team Member Referral Program

Job purpose:

This role is critical to the organization. Three main variables are the focus:

• Connect providers, clients, and families to appropriate clinical resources.
• Serve as a liaison and partner to help educate communities, providers, clients, and families about adult psychiatric and substance use disorders, specifically about the role long-term residential plays for acute, persistent conditions.
• Prioritize the markets, community and provider partnerships with the greatest need for the services aligned with the centers clinical and business model to increase clinically appropriate inquires that lead to meeting or exceeding admission goals.

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Build a strategic regional growth plan by evaluating, analyzing and interpreting facility and market utilization data.
• Use market demographic data available on the web to prioritize favorable markets by economics, age, and population.
• Collaborate with facility and corporate leadership to leverage strategic initiatives.
• Maximize available resources to meet or exceed strategic growth goals.
• In cooperation with facility and corporate leadership development retention strategies for the top, maintenance and new targeted accounts.
• Develop goals and timelines for closing new and enhanced key account opportunities
• Present and gain support/commitment from leadership for regional growth strategies and plans.
• Execute sales and retention strategies and plans; successfully close new business in accordance with pre-determined targets.
• Complete face-to-face sales meeting with all key accounts and contacts ensuring that a thorough understanding is gained regarding their desires and needs.
• Target follow-up meetings with all key sources, as needed, to close new and additional business, ensuring that internal and external obstacles to business growth and retention are identified, minimized or eliminated.
• Prepare and present monthly / weekly reports or updates as requested, identifying trends, additional business opportunities with existing and new accounts and obstacles to retention.
• Continuously evaluate and modify growth/retention strategies to ensure optimal business outcomes for market providers and partners.
• Attend scheduled virtual, in person and internal and external business development and facility meetings.
• Collaborate with admissions to obtain accurate referral source trends, provide referral source feedback to leverage increased market share for the facility and corporate network entities.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university.
• 3-5 years of experience in strategy, business development in a fast-paced environment Ability to work interdependently with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a various executives and department heads for information and / or insight
• Some background in one or more of the following;
• corporate development, strategic partnerships, project management and / or sales

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against companies of similar size within the behavioral healthcare industry. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Lifeskills South Florida reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “At-Will.” The aforementioned job requirements are subject to change to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities.