Business Development Specialist

Overview

Please note: H1B Sponsorship is not offered for this position.

Position Summary

The Business Development Specialist (BDS) is responsible for creating long-term value for OSF through ongoing development and retention of customers, markets, and relationships. Predominant responsibility is business development and growth through relationship management. This position requires a motivated, independent professional with demonstrated ability to develop and execute regional customer and business development plans and strategies. This position requires a large degree of self-initiative in establishing and furthering collaborative customer relationships. The Business Development Specialist acts as a key resource and liaison for communication, information, and problem solving and provides ongoing support to Those We Serve ensuring they receive high value customer service. The Business Development Specialist identifies and researches opportunities to expand the health care community's knowledge and referral activity to achieve volume and revenue goals for their assigned geography of OSF clinical and non-clinical services.

Qualifications

• REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Education: Associates Degree or higher
  • Experience: Three to five years’ work experience in healthcare, marketing, or sales
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Education: Bachelors
  • Experience: Previous experience in health insurance, health plans, managed care, medical billing, patient accounting, payor contracting or provider relations (especially for employer relations)

Skills/Knowledge

• Excellent communication, collaboration, team building and relationship management skills
• Results oriented, responds to questions with definitive answers, and meets deadlines
• Professionalism and ability to handle confidential information
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt to evolving job roles within the constantly changing work environment
• High level of analytical ability necessary, as problems are sometimes complex
• Excellent customer service, organizational and listening skills
• Self-starting, effective leader with good personal relationship skills and the ability to act upon their own independent thought processes
• Ability to proficiently operate a personal computer and computer software programs necessary to carry out principal duties including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and analytical tools

Employer Relations

Targets employer opportunities in the assigned territory, for the purpose of presenting services and implementing agreements for future products/services in collaboration with OSF Mission Partner enablement and scalability.

Provider Relations

Targets independent affiliates, Third Order Hospitals, and other regional hospitals, care facilities and clinics along with physicians and their practices, both owned and non-owned.

Benefits

Actual pay will be determined by experience, skills and internal equity. This is a Salaried position.