Business Development Manager

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Banbury; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Are you an experienced Business Development Manager looking for a new role in pharma wholesale?

Oxford Pharmacy Store (OPS) is a specialised directorate of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, providing a wide range of pharmaceutical products and services to the NHS and other healthcare providers across the UK. In September 2025, OPS relocated to a new warehouse facility in Banbury, Oxfordshire, actively supplying over 600 healthcare customers, including NHS Trusts, hospitals, outpatient pharmacies, private hospital groups, and pharmaceutical wholesalers with a range of specialised medicines.

We’re seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Development Manager to join our growing team. You’ll have a proven track record in B2B business development, ideally within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry. In this newly created role, you’ll identify and pursue new business opportunities in targeted areas, develop and maintain a strong pipeline, and negotiate and close deals to drive revenue growth.

OPS fosters a learning and growth culture, offering trust-wide development programmes and career support. We work collaboratively with weekly team activities, regular communication from senior management, and an employee feedback loop that ensures your voice is heard.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing team at a pivotal stage of growth, giving you the chance to make a real impact. If this sounds like your next career move, we’d love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• Identify and pursue new business opportunities to drive growth in targeted areas.
• Lead on new business targets and delivery strategy ensuring alignment with revenue budgets.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including healthcare providers, regulatory bodies, and industry partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product launches and market entry.
• Monitor market trends and competitor activities to inform business strategies.
• Provide regular reports and updates to the General Manager and Senior Management Team.
• Work closely with other departments to support onboarding of new business.
• Support the development of OPS’s overall business strategy.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work. To showcase the best of yourself when making an application, please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust, we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team.”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent.”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role, and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of working experience
• Full membership or relevant business-related accreditation

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven experience in business development, preferably within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• Experience of identifying and pursuing new business opportunities to drive growth in targeted areas.
• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders

Desirable criteria

• Leadership experience

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise a heavy workload, always ensuring attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Professional approach
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Ability to travel between sites and to regional meetings

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust-wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.

Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

We’re advocates of flexible working, and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.

Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible, and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees, and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.