Business Development Manager

⏱️ Permanent Full Time

📍 Location: St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba

About the Opportunity

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba (SVPHT) is seeking a highly capable Business Development Manager with strong acute healthcare insight to join the Executive team.

This senior role is pivotal in driving sustainable growth across surgical, medical and emerging service lines, through sophisticated engagement with VMOs and the intelligent use of clinical and operational data.

You will work closely with hospital executives, medical specialists and external partners to identify, shape and deliver growth opportunities aligned with the hospital’s strategic and clinical priorities.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead hospital wide business development initiatives focused on surgical and medical specialty growth, service line optimisation and market expansion.
• In partnership with General Manager, recruit new specialists and take lead role in supporting their onboarding & growth of their practices.
• Act as a senior liaison with surgeons, physicians, anaesthetists and administrators fostering trusted, long-term professional relationships.
• Analyse health care industry data; theatre utilisation, case mix, referral patterns, patient flows and market data to inform growth strategies and investment decisions.
• Translate data insights into robust business cases, service proposals and executive level reports.
• Support medical workforce planning and recruitment strategies in collaboration with Executive, Clinical leadership and VMO practices.
• Identify and develop partnerships across the broader health sector, including private specialists, referrers and aligned services.
• Oversee external engagement activities, including targeted communications and digital presence, ensuring alignment with growth priorities.

About You:

You are a credible, commercially astute healthcare professional or professional with experience in the health care industry who understands the realities of operating within a private acute hospital environment.

Essential attributes:

• Demonstrated experience in acute healthcare or pharmaceutical business development and/or sales roles.
• Experience in clinical service planning, or health sector strategy is a plus.
• An outgoing and confident person who is well presented and able to develop strong relationships with senior medical specialists and key referrers.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting health care activity data to guide decision making.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, including business case development and budget preparation.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to think ‘outside the box’ and convert opportunity into deliverable outcomes.
• The ability to motivate, manage and mentor diverse groups toward the accomplishment of established goals

Highly regarded:

• Experience within a private acute hospital or procedural healthcare environment.
• Clinical background and/or tertiary qualification/s.
• Exposure to new service commissioning, specialty expansion or capital planning

Why Join SVPHT

• A supportive and cohesive multidisciplinary team
• Competitive salary
• Access to Blue Light Card - discounted service for frontline workers (available for over 350 brands inc. Big W, The Good Guys, Samsung)
• Private health insurance discounts through Medibank or Bupa
• Options for purchasing additional annual leave
• Excellent salary packaging options up to $15,990, Novated leasing, plus an optional Meals and Entertainment card up to $2,650 per annum
• Annual flu vaccination
• Opportunity to work for the nation's largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider
• Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families
• Access to Fitness Passport (FP)

About Us:

St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders, the Sisters of Charity, opened our first hospital in 1857, our services and people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. With public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs for marginalised people, we are a microcosm of Australia’s health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.

Mission and Values:

As both a provider of care and as an employer, St Vincent’s aspires to create an environment that is truly inclusive for all people, always. St Vincent’s is constantly striving for inclusivity and to create and cherish a diverse place of care and work.

Part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For further information, visit Mission and Values - Reconciliation

Respectfully, no agencies please. 

Employment is subject to the successful completion of all pre-employment checks which may include a Working with Children check (i.e. a Blue Card).  For further information about St Vincent’s commitment to Child Safety, visit St Vincent's Code of Conduct.

St Vincent's has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings and evidence may be required for proof of immunity.