Principal, Business Development - Healthcare
WFA Digital Insight
TELUS Digital’s Principal Business Development position sits at the intersection of high‑stakes healthcare consulting and a global digital consultancy. Unlike a generic sales role, this job expects you to blend strategic account leadership with hands‑on proposal creation, working directly with Solutions Architects and Product teams to shape executive‑level pitches. The focus on the healthcare vertical means you’ll need a deep understanding of digital transformation challenges faced by large providers, and the ability to translate complex technology into tangible business value. Travel is limited to a quarter of the time, allowing a predominantly remote rhythm while still maintaining face‑to‑face rapport with C‑suite stakeholders. Candidates should be comfortable navigating both new‑logo pursuits and expansion of existing relationships, as revenue growth across both metrics is the core KPI.
Job Description
Who We Are
Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.
From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.
Location and Flexibility
This role will be in a Work From Anywhere (Remote) capacity with travel to clients and TELUS Digital Solutions offices expected.
The Opportunity
The Principal, Business Development role is responsible for leading relationships with key strategic accounts and for cultivating relationships with key prospective accounts. This role will focus on our Healthcare industry vertical. The Principal will ensure that all aspects of account work, from strategic development to execution, exceed client expectations. While working with Business Development and Marketing leadership on a combination of product, brand, market, and sales strategies, the Principal will coordinate new leads, field new business opportunities, and win new business.
TELUS Digital Solutions' Business Development team encompasses a range of skilled professionals who drive innovation and growth on the front lines of client engagement. As a team, we rally around three distinct areas in the client journey map: Prospecting, Pursuit, and Expansion. A few responsibilities across our team include: identifying new relationships and opportunities, nurturing ongoing relationships with client partners, contracting agreements, writing proposals, pitching our services to prospective clients, and more.
Responsibilities
The primary KPI for this role will be revenue growth (measured in both new logos and growth of existing accounts) alongside client satisfaction scores and team health on managed accounts.
Identify target accounts to optimize services and communicate TELUS Digital's capabilities to clients
Competently articulate product features to implement technology solutions successfully
You’ll collaborate with our Solutions Architects and Product teams to craft executive-level proposals, pitches, and SOWs for prospective and existing clients
Cultivate and extend existing C-level relationships with current clients
You’ll team up with our delivery leadership to respond to opportunities and team-sell through RFP responses or other types of sales cycles
Advise TELUS Digital’s internal teams on industry and vendor trends to remain well-positioned to assist our clients
You must have the ability to travel up to 25% for client visits, pitches, and conferences
Competencies
Deep experience in a digital product professional services agency/consultancy engaged with F5000-level Healthcare client accounts
Balance of both growth strategy project work as well as operational project responsibilities, including digital transformation. In addition, the ideal candidate has had the opportunity to manage teams and multiple work streams
Ability to identify and characterize business issues, while demonstrating a ‘nose for value’ to discern what is important
Scope and plan underlying analyses that will yield critical answers to the questions at hand. Understand the required data to complete the analysis and procure them accordingly. Deliver timely, zero-defect execution of analysis. Leverage quantitative tools for the analytical "heavy lifting.” Analyze data and translate findings into meaningful insights and recommendations
Ability to communicate effectively and succinctly, both verbally and on paper, and across all levels of an organization. The ideal candidate excels in client relationships/communication and possesses the executive presence to influence appropriate senior stakeholders
Bonus Points
An engineering or computer science degree/background
Master’s Degree in Business Administration
Equal Opportunity Employer
At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.
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How to Stand Out
- Highlight any healthcare‑focused digital projects in your resume; concrete examples of transformation wins stand out.
- Prepare a brief case study that shows how you turned a technical solution into measurable business value for a C‑suite audience.
- Demonstrate Excel proficiency by sharing a sample financial model or pipeline report during the interview.
- Research TELUS Digital’s recent healthcare case studies so you can speak to their existing capabilities and where you can add impact.
- Be ready to discuss your travel flexibility and how you maintain relationships in a predominantly remote role.
- When negotiating, reference the performance‑based incentives tied to revenue growth rather than focusing solely on base salary.
- Watch for vague role definitions; ask about reporting lines and how success is measured beyond the KPI metrics.
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