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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Dover Behavioral Health System
Dover, DE Full Time
POSTED ON 11/18/2025 CLOSED ON 12/2/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT position at Dover Behavioral Health System?

Responsibilities

Business Development and Marketing Director

Dover Behavioral Health System is a 104-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in the beautiful Dover, Delaware area. Dover Behavioral Health System features individual units for adolescents and adults and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. On average, over 10,000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Dover Behavioral Health System. This opportunity offers working at a hospital known for its outstanding patient satisfaction, including ranking 6th for highest patient satisfaction in 2020 compared to over 200 psychiatric hospitals. We attribute this success to our talented and dedicated staff. We are the best at what we do!

The Business Development Director is a key member of Dover Behavioral Health System who will lead the community relations and marketing initiatives for the hospital. The BDD participates in the hospital’s strategic planning and contributes to the achievement of institutional goals and objectives.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

  • Identify and oversee the development of the community relations programs necessary to meet the key mental health and substance abuse treatment needs of the community
  • Develop and implement strategic marketing and referral initiatives to generate a continuous flow of admissions to meet the census goals of the hospital and build the Dover Behavioral Health brand in the community
  • Perform personnel management duties including recruiting and retention, providing department orientation and training, completing performance evaluations, competency assessments, etc.
  • Supervise direct staff to ensure effective utilization of referral services and community relations opportunities including scheduling employees, identifying and addressing training needs and implementing a system of on-going employee performance monitoring
  • Under the direction of the CEO and CFO, manage contractual partnerships including creating, renewing, and negotiating terms and conditions.
  • Gather, analyze and report monthly facility clinical data to the Quality Council, Medical Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, Patient Safety Council, etc.
  • Initiates, develops and maintains relationships with community providers and stakeholders in support of the clinical needs of the community

Benefit Highlights

  • Competitive Compensation
  • Generous Paid Time Off - 29 days in the first year!
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

About Our Parent Company Universal Health Services (UHS)

About Universal Health Services One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were over $11 billion in 2020. In 2021, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of U.S.’ Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has over 89,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhsinc.com

Qualifications

  • Minimum of a Bachelors’ degree in Marketing, Sales or other relevant field with a minimum of seven years of experience in management preferably in behavioral health or medical field
  • Strong oral communication skills and an ability to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience, strong presentation skills, and creativity in developing marketing methods to effectively deliver the service message to referral sources
  • Valid driver's license with a clean driving record and dependable transportation

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Notice

At UHS and all subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates with matching skillset and experience with the best possible career at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail etc. If you feel suspicious of a job posting or job-related email, let us know by contacting us at: https://uhs.alertline.com or 1-800-852-3449

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