Group Director, Strategic Business Development

**Shape the Future of Healthcare

Our Client**

Epworth HealthCare is one of Australia's most respected healthcare organisations and Victoria's largest not-for-profit private hospital group. With a reputation built on clinical excellence, innovation and patient-centred care, Epworth is entering a period of significant growth and strategic investment.
We are seeking an exceptional leader to join our organisation as Group Director Strategic Business Development.

This enterprise-wide leadership role will drive the identification, development and execution of strategic business development and growth opportunities across Epworth's diverse portfolio of hospitals, clinical services and emerging healthcare models.

This is a career-defining opportunity for a commercially astute leader seeking to influence the direction of one of Australia's leading healthcare organisations.

The Opportunity
As a key member of the Epworth senior leadership team, you will lead the development and implementation of business development and growth strategies that strengthen Epworth's market position, expand clinical services and create long-term enterprise value.

Working closely with the Epworth Executive and Hospital Executive teams, you will:

• Develop and execute enterprise-wide growth, market expansion and business development strategies
• Identify and assess emerging healthcare opportunities, partnerships, clinical service enhancements and new models of care
• Support clinical service growth planning and strategic investment initiatives
• Drive specialist medical engagement, recruitment and retention strategies aligned to Epworth's Strategic Plan
• Translate market intelligence, healthcare trends and competitive insights into actionable growth strategies
• Partner with executive leaders to shape Epworth's next generation of healthcare services and medical staffing
• Build and maintain influential relationships with leading clinicians, specialists, referrers and industry stakeholders
• Foster a high-performance business development team culture focused on growth, innovation and execution excellence.

The Person
You are an accomplished leader recognised for delivering growth, influencing at the executive level, and leading complex strategic initiatives.
You bring:

• Senior experience in business development, healthcare growth, consulting, sales, commercial leadership or transformation
• A proven track record of identifying and delivering significant growth opportunities
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including business case development, investment analysis and performance assessment
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement, negotiation and relationship-building capability
• The ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams through growth and change
• Strategic curiosity, intellectual rigour and a strong bias towards action.

Candidates We Would Like to Meet
We welcome applications from senior leaders currently working in:

• Private healthcare organisations
• Health based sales and marketing roles
• Healthcare consulting firms
• Major professional services firms
• Health technology and digital health organisations
• Health insurers
• Healthcare infrastructure and investment organisations

Experience in healthcare is highly regarded, however we are equally interested in exceptional commercial leaders who bring a fresh perspective and a demonstrated ability to drive growth in complex service industries.

Why Epworth
This role offers the rare opportunity to influence healthcare at scale.
You will join an organisation with:

• A trusted and highly respected brand
• Strong financial foundations
• Significant growth opportunities
• Executive exposure across strategy, operations and clinical service development
• Access to some of Australia's leading healthcare professionals and specialists
• A values-driven culture committed to excellence, innovation and patient outcomes
• The opportunity to leave a lasting legacy on the future of healthcare delivery.

To Apply

Please click the Apply Now button, or for a confidential conversation, please contact Lyndsey Walker - [email protected]

deliberateImpact Recruitment are the retained recruitment partner for Epworth HealthCare for this role. Any third party applications will be referred to deliberateImpact for review.

EpworthHealth are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. 

The successful candidate will be subject to relevant police and people checks.