Director of Private Medical Insurance - #145228

Barbican/Hybrid (2-3 days per week) | Permanent | Full Time

Competitive Salary, Depending On Experience

37.5 hours per week

Build a Healthier Nation – Starting with You

At Nuffield Health, we’re the UK’s largest healthcare charity with a mission to build a healthier nation. From award-winning hospitals and fitness centres to ground-breaking community programmes, we’re changing lives every day. To do this, we need people who share our passion for wellbeing, innovation, and quality.

We’re looking for a Director of Private Medical Insurance to lead our strategic relationships with the UK’s top insurance providers. In this high-impact role, you’ll drive long-term value through outstanding service, commercial innovation, and collaborative partnerships — ensuring that customers receive the best possible care.

About The Role

As Director of Private Medical Insurance, you’ll be the strategic lead for our insurer partnerships, setting the vision and managing performance across contracting, service delivery, and relationship development. You’ll work closely with leading insurers to deliver exceptional care solutions, while also identifying new opportunities to innovate and collaborate for mutual benefit.

You’ll also lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing team to deliver excellence across all areas of client and partner engagement.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the strategic development of Private Medical Insurance partner relationships, driving growth and long-term value for both Nuffield Health and our partners.
• Negotiate and oversee complex contracts to maximise commercial performance and mitigate risk.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans for key Private Medical Insurance partners to ensure client satisfaction, retention, and expansion.
• Identify and qualify new business opportunities, ensuring optimal pricing, delivery feasibility, and cross-functional alignment.
• Shape new propositions and pricing models using insights from market trends, competitor intelligence, client feedback, and bid analysis.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration, aligning internal priorities and driving integrated delivery across service lines.
• Coach and develop a high-performing team, embedding a culture of accountability, innovation, and client excellence.
  
  

About You

We’re looking for a commercially astute, strategic thinker with strong leadership capability and a deep understanding of the insurance landscape.

You’ll bring:

• A proven track record in commercial leadership and business development, ideally within healthcare or insurance
• Experience leading senior-level teams with high revenue accountability
• Strong strategic planning and execution skills, with the ability to influence and present at Board level
• Exceptional stakeholder and relationship management skills, with a collaborative and client-focused mindset
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and people development capabilities
• A passion for customer experience, innovation, and delivering results
  
  

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.