Founding Business Development Manager, Dental

Location: Manchester or Leeds preferred, North of England essential. Home and field-based, with travel across the North and to the major UK dental events.

Type: Full-time, permanent.

Compensation: £50,000 to £55,000 base, car allowance, and a share of the recurring revenue from every client you bring in, paid for as long as they stay and you're with us. Pension and holiday as standard.

The Company:
Oarline

We've spent a decade getting very good at one thing: helping dental practices win private patients. Hundreds of practices in the US run on our work. Now we're bringing it to the UK, into a market where NHS and mixed practices are going private up and down the country and most aren't sure how to make private patients choose them.

We need one person to build the UK side of this with us. You'd be our first hire here, and the doors we walk through, the partners we work with and the practices we win all start with you.

Oarline is the UK brand of Pain-Free Dental Marketing, dental-only since 2015 and profitable in the US.

You bring the relationships that get us in front of practices in the North. André does the closing in year one, with you alongside, and you take on more of it as the UK proof builds. Delivery and the day-to-day are handled by an established team, so your time goes on relationships and winning clients.

The principals you can already reach, and the advisers who influence them, are the heart of this job. In year one that looks like:

• Getting us in the room. You bring the warm introductions to practice owners across would
  
  Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and the towns around them. André runs the early conversations and signs the clients, with you in the room, and as the UK proof builds you take on more of the closing yourself, backed by a proven method.
• Building the partner network. Real relationships with the accountants, brokers, plan consultants and coaches who advise mixed and NHS-heavy practices, the kind that send introductions without being chased.
• Being our face at the events. The dental shows and the study clubs where the real conversations happen.
• Telling us the truth about the market. What practices object to, what partners think of our model, where the pitch lands and where it doesn't. We change things based on what you tell us.

You won't write copy, run ads or manage campaigns. We have a team for that, and they're good. You bring the doors and the relationships; we bring the method.

• You're early, and that's the point. The partners, the pitch, the patch, you shape the lot. You'd be building the UK from the ground up, not inheriting someone else's machine, and if you do it well the role grows with the business, into Head of UK with the next hires reporting to you.
• A founder in the trenches, not a boss at a distance. André is in the room for the early deals, bringing a closing method proven over a decade and decisions get made in days, not quarters.
• We have built the offer around UK realities. NHS pressure, UDA contracts, GDC and ASA requirements. We have done the work, and we are honest about what we are still learning. We don’t do the pushy, over promising marketing that makes principals wince. The people you introduce get a straight, useful conversation, not a pitch that embarrasses you.
• We're honest about what the work can and can't do. It brings the right patients to the door, but the practice still has to convert them, and plenty sits outside anyone's control. The work is good and proven, and we won't ask you to promise results we can't guarantee.

We built the pay around one idea: you share in what you build.

A fair base of £50,000 to £55,000, plus a car allowance for a job spent on the road. That covers your life while you build. On top of it, a share of the recurring fee from every client you bring in, paid every month for as long as that client stays with us and you're with us. Build a book of practices that stick around and it pays you month after month, for as long as they do.

The one that churns in a quarter doesn't. We'll set out the numbers with you at offer.

There are no UK clients yet, which is exactly why you're the first hire, and…