Marketing Director (Healthcare)

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced Marketing professional? Do you have experience in the Healthcare market? If so, Sodexo want to hear from you. We are the worldwide leaders in Quality of Life services and we are currently looking to recruit a Marketing Director to be responsible for adapting offers to the characteristics of regional clients & consumers – providing input into the strategic plan for the Healthcare segment.

You will assist the Managing Director in the identification and analysis of new opportunities in the health & social care markets in the UK&I, working on market entry strategies associated with agreed opportunities, and work up methodologies for monetising.

This role will include: defining service needs, managing geographical expectations, contributing to strategic planning, industry research, educating on clients and customer needs, offer and product development and solution design - in addition to team management and setting expectations.

Sodexo Healthcare is a leading provider of services to the NHS and private healthcare organisations in England. We provide quality of life services that improve patient and staff experience, raise standards and deliver financial benefits to our clients. We help to enhance the patient environment (including patient dining, cleaning/housekeeping, retail services), provide clinical support (diagnostic pathology as part of a joint venture, equipment sterilisation) and manage technical estates teams (estates management, asset management, land maintenance and energy management).

Role Responsibility

• Support the Managing Director and the Exec Team in the formulation of the segment strategy, and plans relating to the execution thereof
• Developing and delivering robust methodologies for the identification, analysis, and prioritisation of new market opportunities in both health and social care markets
• Managing and ownership of the product/service development process, using such internal and external resource as may be appropriate
• Engage with other segments and functions as necessary to ensure that all interested parties are engaged in the development process and understand their respective roles
• Identification and evaluation of market entry opportunities – partnerships, acquisitions, start-up etc.
• Ensure that the business maintains a focus on product/service development
• Work with the Sales and Product Management Teams to ensure successful launch of any new products
• Assist the wider promotion of Sodexo in Health and Social care markets
• Work with clients to understand their requirements in relation to new outsourcing potential, to design appropriate services, and recommend methodologies for execution.

The Ideal Candidate

• Relevant marketing qualification and / or experience
• Proven track record of success in senior marketing roles
• Delivering the marketing activities to the strategy = outcomes
• Background in the health sector, ideally covering both private and public sectors
• Strong commercial acumen – demonstrable experience of executing great ideas
• Demonstrable evidence of being able to deliver innovation in the health sector
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills for managing senior level relationships
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel, prioritising as appropriate
• Confident, ambitious and energetic with a persuasive manner and the ability to use your initiative.

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

Band D - Access to a variety of Sodexo benefits and discounts, flexible benefit fund, car allowance, life insurance, bonus and pension scheme

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.