Senior Partnership Development Specialist (Healthcare)

Location: San Jose, California, USA; hybrid role for a candidate local to the Bay Area. At least 70% of working time involves in-person meetings and local travel throughout the assigned territory.

Salary: $85,000–$100,000 yearly. A separate salary range of $70,000–$80,000 is also listed.

Company

hirify.global is a healthcare education organization whose schools help students launch and advance careers while strengthening the healthcare workforce.

What you will do

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with hospitals, healthcare organizations, clinical education departments, and healthcare decision-makers.
• Identify partnership opportunities within an assigned territory and expand existing relationships to create clinical learning placements for nursing students.
• Conduct frequent in-person visits to hospitals, clinics, skilled nursing facilities, and other healthcare organizations.
• Present proposals, address concerns, negotiate agreements, and secure signed affiliation agreements and clinical placement opportunities.
• Represent Unitek at advisory boards, community events, conferences, networking opportunities, and marketing initiatives.
• Track outreach, meetings, opportunities, agreements, and follow-up activity in the CRM while supporting documentation, onboarding, and compliance activities.

Requirements

• Five or more years of experience in sales, outside sales, business development, recruiting, account management, client relations, workforce development, employer relations, healthcare partnerships, or a comparable relationship-based role is preferred.
• Strong consultative sales, presentation, negotiation, communication, organizational, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to build trust, initiate conversations, conduct prospecting and follow-up, adapt value propositions, and move opportunities toward signed agreements.
• Must be local to the Bay Area and willing to travel frequently throughout the assigned territory.
• Dependable transportation and a safe driving record are required.
• Comfort using Microsoft Office, spreadsheets, databases, and CRM systems, with the ability to work independently and manage a territory.

Nice to have

• Healthcare or education experience.
• Experience in outside sales, recruiting, employer relations, staffing, account management, medical sales, or relationship-based business development.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage beginning on the first day of the month after 30 days of employment.
• Two weeks of starting vacation, increasing with tenure.
• Twelve paid holidays and two floating holidays.
• Company-paid life insurance at one times annual salary.
• Leadership development, career training, tuition assistance, and tuition forgiveness for employees and their families, depending on the program.