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NHS Sales Development Representative

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on building a pipeline for NHS opportunities in healthcare technology. You will engage with various NHS stakeholders to identify and qualify new business opportunities, supporting the commercial team in the sales cycle.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years' experience in NHS-facing business development or account management.
  • Experience selling into diagnostics, medical devices or digital health.
  • A good understanding of NHS structures: ICBs, Trusts, PCNs, GP Federations and CDCs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Comfortable using CRM systems such as Salesforce, and LinkedIn.

Responsibilities

  • Market map and prospect target ICBs, Trusts, GP Federations and CDCs.
  • Run multi-channel outreach to secure first meetings with stakeholders.
  • Qualify opportunities in Salesforce and build a strong top-of-funnel pipeline.
  • Keep CRM records accurate and report weekly on activity and pipeline.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Self-Motivation

About the company

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IQVIA

  • Clinical Research (CRO)
  • Large
  • 10,001+
IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics, transformative technology, big data resources and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ delivers powerful insights with speed and agility — enabling customers to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients. With approximately 86,000 employees, IQVIA conducts operations in more than 100 countries. IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. IQVIA’s insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com.

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Job description

NHS Sales Development Representative (Healthcare technology)

Location: Hybrid (mainly remote) with some UK travel as required

The opportunity

  • Help build an NHS pipeline from the ground up.
  • You'll identify, engage and qualify new opportunities across the NHS, then hand them to the commercial team to take through the sales cycle.
  • You'll target GP Federations, Primary Care Networks, NHS Trusts, Community Diagnostic Centres and Integrated Care Boards.

Key responsibilities

Market mapping and prospecting

  • Use available data to map target ICBs, Trusts, GP Federations and CDCs. Prioritise those with a clear diagnostic need, backlogs or service redesign plans.
  • Identify key stakeholders in each account. These include clinicians, nurses and physiologists, plus service managers, transformation leads, commissioners and procurement.
  • Use national and regional NHS priorities to target your outreach.

Engagement

  • Run multi-channel outreach (virtual calls, email, LinkedIn and events) to secure first meetings with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders.
  • Lead discovery conversations about current diagnostic pathways, pain points, capacity and patient outcomes.
  • Explain the clinical and operational value of the solution and its supporting evidence, staying within approved claims.
  • Bring in colleagues from clinical, technical and operational teams where they add value.
  • Represent the business at conferences, NHS network meetings and regional events.

Qualification and handover

  • Qualify opportunities against an agreed framework in Salesforce and build a strong top-of-funnel pipeline.
  • Hand over qualified opportunities with a full account brief, stakeholder map and agreed next steps.
  • Stay involved after handover to support relationships while the commercial team leads the sales cycle.

Pipeline and insight

  • Keep CRM records accurate and report weekly on activity, pipeline throughput and conversion.
  • Feed market and customer insight back to the wider business.
  • Follow all applicable regulatory, compliance and NHS engagement standards, including data protection.

About you

Essential

  • 3+ years' experience in NHS-facing business development or account management.
  • Experience selling into diagnostics, medical devices or digital health.
  • A good understanding of NHS structures: ICBs, Trusts, PCNs, GP Federations and CDCs.
  • A proven record of generating new pipeline and booking early-stage meetings with senior clinical and non-clinical stakeholders.
  • Confident at cold outreach, structured discovery and qualification.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Comfortable using CRM systems such as Salesforce, and LinkedIn.
  • Self-motivated and organised, and comfortable working remotely.
  • A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel occasionally.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of NHS procurement routes and business case processes.
  • Experience opening new accounts for an early-stage or pre-scale organisation.
  • A clinical or life science background.
  • An existing primary care customer network.

What success looks like

  • A steady flow of qualified opportunities handed to the commercial team each quarter.
  • Strong conversion from early-stage meetings to qualified opportunities.
  • New stakeholder relationships and clinical champions built across target accounts.
  • High-quality CRM records and handover briefs.

Ready to help shape the NHS pipeline for a pioneering healthcare technology business?


Please note this role does not sponsor visa's.


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IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.

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