Business Development Manager, Middle East Practice (Hiring Immediately)

6 month Contract

Business Development Manager, Middle East practice

Health consulting

About us

We are a leading consultancy with a purpose to make an enduring impact on health and healthcare. We work with leaders and frontline teams to improve health, transform healthcare, drive adoption of innovation and create value through investment.

Our consultancy serves the entire healthcare sector, from payors and providers of care, to life science companies, health tech and sector suppliers and health investors. We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, accelerated by data, digital and AI.

We shape opinion through evidence-based thought leadership on key issues affecting health. With unmatched ability to access and use health data, our consultants are a driving force for delivering positive and meaningful change.

Our strategic intent

We are focused on building the leading consulting company dedicated to health. We serve the entire healthcare sector , including healthcare systems (providers, payors and regulators), life sciences (pharmaceuticals, biotech, devices and diagnostics), health technology, health investors, and the wider supplier landscape.

We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, supporting organisations to improve population health and healthcare outcomes. Our work spans strategy and transformation, finance and performance improvement, and delivery accelerated by data, digital and AI. We help clients understand their ambitions, identify opportunities to create value, apply innovation in practice, and deliver sustainable, measurable change.

Our consulting is accelerated by data. With an unmatched ability to access and use health data, we are recognised for our expertise in its safe and responsible application, improving health and healthcare delivery, supporting adoption of innovation, generating evidence, and informing decision-making. Our engineering and data science capabilities underpin our consulting and are also deployed directly with clients, often as part of multidisciplinary teams.

We are building a community of expert consultants who want to operate at the leading edge of the profession and who share a passion for health. Through structured career development from Analyst to Partner, underpinned by apprenticeship, mentorship and formal training, we are cultivating the leaders of the future and supporting individuals to develop distinctive expertise that creates value for our clients.

Our Mission

Our mission is to be invaluable to our clients, supporting them to innovate and make lasting improvements and to build an exceptional company that attracts, develops, and retains a trusted and uniquely talented team.

The role

The Business Development Manager is accountable to the Partners for the Middle East practice, Dr Zahra Safarfashandi and Dr Joud Abduljawad and is responsible for supporting them to lead the practice in collaboration with the wider Middle East leadership team. The focus of the role is leading the business development efforts of the practice and driving its performance, future strategy and growth.

The role is responsible for developing the Middle East practice strategy as an input to the overall corporate strategy and for converting the strategy into annual business goals and quarterly OKRs to be delivered by the practice team. The Business Development Manager coordinates delivery of the business plan in-year, organising and managing the activities required for its delivery.

In collaboration with the Marketing Team for CF, the Business Development Manager will orchestrate the marketing and thought leadership activities of the Middle East practice. This includes identifying and organising leadership team presence at networking events and conferences, ensuring the market is aware of our services and the positive impacts they have through case studies and impact statements, and organising thought leadership articles. Evaluation and assessing return on investment of our activities is part of the role’s responsibilities, with the aim of continuous learning to improve the use of company resources.

The Business Development Manager is responsible for end-to-end procurement processes. This includes forging relationships with key procurement contacts across the public sector, keeping abreast of portals and frameworks for contracts and forging partnerships with other suppliers which might aid our access to the market. Coordinating decisions to bid, engaging with client procurement teams, organising bid teams and quality assuring bid processes, vetting all fee tables to ensure compliance with company policies, managing the discount decisions in conjunction with the Partners, ensuring con]]> <