VP of Business Development – Elective Healthcare
Description
- Provider Acquisition: Identify, prospect, negotiate, and secure new healthcare provider relationships across dental, vision, hearing, veterinary, and other elective healthcare specialties.
- Strategic Partnership Development: Identify, establish, and grow referral, affiliate, platform, and ecosystem partnerships that drive provider acquisition, referrals, and funded volume growth.
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain executive-level relationships with providers, strategic partners, and key stakeholders to drive adoption, retention, and long-term growth.
- Pipeline Development & Sales Execution: Develop and manage a robust pipeline through networking, industry engagement, outbound prospecting, referrals, and strategic partnerships. Own opportunities through the full sales lifecycle, including discovery, proposal development, negotiation, onboarding, activation, and growth.
- Vertical Strategy & Market Intelligence: Develop and execute growth strategies for the Elective Healthcare vertical by identifying target markets, monitoring industry trends, evaluating competitive dynamics, and uncovering new partnership and growth opportunities.
- Partner Engagement & Influence: Collaborate with affiliate, referral, and ecosystem partners to develop joint growth strategies, support partner sales motions and marketing initiatives, and increase partner-led recommendations and referrals to AFF.
- Industry Presence: Represent AFF at industry trade shows, conferences, association events, webinars, publications, and other market-facing opportunities to increase brand awareness and generate new business opportunities.
- Pipeline Management & Forecasting: Maintain accurate pipeline reporting, opportunity forecasting, and CRM discipline to support predictable growth, resource planning, and executive visibility.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Leadership, Field Sales, Inside Sales, Client Success, Marketing, Operations, Risk, Legal, and Pricing teams to ensure successful implementations, strong partner experiences, and long-term portfolio growth.
- Partner Experience: Ensure a seamless experience throughout the relationship lifecycle, from pre-sales and contract execution through implementation, activation, and ongoing account management while maintaining AFF's high standards of service and responsiveness.
- Portfolio Growth & Performance: Drive provider activation, adoption, funded volume, retention, and profitability while consistently achieving or exceeding established business development objectives.
- 5+ years of successful business development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, or B2B sales experience, preferably within elective healthcare, consumer finance, FinTech, payments, or related industries.
- Demonstrated success prospecting, developing, negotiating, and closing complex provider, enterprise, strategic partnership, or multi-location opportunities.
- Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with healthcare providers, business owners, executives, strategic partners, referral organizations, and other key decision-makers.
- Strong interpersonal, presentation, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Self-motivated, results-oriented professional with exceptional organizational, time management, and pipeline management skills.
- Experience managing opportunities through the full sales lifecycle, from prospecting and contract negotiation through implementation, activation, and account growth.
- Experience developing referral, affiliate, association, platform, channel, or ecosystem partnerships that generate new business opportunities and revenue growth.
- Proficiency with CRM platforms and Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Ability to travel frequently for customer meetings, industry events, conferences, and partner engagements.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Existing relationships with DSOs, veterinary groups, vision networks, hearing organizations, healthcare associations, membership buying groups, referral networks, or other healthcare ecosystem partners.
- Experience selling patient financing, payments, healthcare technology, or practice-growth solutions to healthcare providers or healthcare-related organizations.
- Familiarity with Lease-to-Own, Point-of-Sale Financing, Installment Lending, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), Patient Financing, or other consumer lending and financing solutions.
Our values are what drive us.
Servant Heart
There’s no place for egos here. Customers and colleagues come first. Serving their needs and driving their engagement is our success.
Dare To Be Different
We are adaptable, creative, and courageous, like entrepreneurs willing to take the necessary risks to innovate and make things better. We challenge the status quo. We seek out different ideas and perspectives as a means of expanding our ability to think and do more.
Embrace Change
That’s not fear, that’s excitement. We see change as core to our survival and our ability to manage change as a prerequisite to new opportunities that can allow us to learn, grow, and do more.
Get Stuff Done
We do whatever it takes to get the job done right. We inspect what we expect, take ownership of our actions, and operate with a sense of urgency in everything we do.
No Drama
We control the things we can control with a mindset to find solutions while minimizing complaint. We are all here for the same purpose, empowered to be the best we can be so that our purpose to deliver great products and services to more customers can be fulfilled.
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