Strategic Growth Lead

Strategic Growth Lead

Application Deadline: 18 September 2026

Department: Senior Management

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London Bridge

Description

Penrose Health is looking for a senior, hands-on generalist to build and lead our growth function

We have grown significantly over the last decade but historically, much of the work has been relationship-led and driven by senior leaders. We now want to build something more deliberate, sustainable and scalable and are looking for someone to lead that.

As our Strategic Growth Lead, you will help shape how Penrose grows - but you will also personally make it happen.

You will work across four main areas:

• Growing patient lists across our existing practices
• Understanding and improving patient retention
• Building relationships with practices considering succession, merger or takeover
• Developing a proactive and credible approach to competitive bids

This is not simply a marketing role, although digital acquisition and campaigns may form part of it. It is also not a traditional strategy role where recommendations are handed to someone else to deliver.

You will be expected to analyse the problem, recommend what we should do, secure agreement and then drive the work forward.

You will not inherit a large team, mature systems or a finished playbook. We are looking for someone who is excited by the opportunity to build the machinery while delivering results.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing Penrose's growth strategy and translating it into practical priorities
• Analysing patient registrations, losses and net growth across our practices
• Identifying and testing local, digital and community-based acquisition opportunities
• Understanding why patients leave and working with operational teams to address avoidable causes
• Identifying practices where partners may be considering retirement or succession
• Building trusted relationships and progressing potential mergers or takeovers
• Developing clear criteria for which formal contract opportunities Penrose should pursue
• Shaping bid strategy, coordinating contributions and improving submission quality
• Building clear reporting, pipelines and operating rhythms
• Using AI and automation to increase the speed, quality and scale of the function's work
• Turning ideas into action and seeing projects through to a measurable outcome

You'll thrive here if you

• Take ownership without waiting for every step to be prescribed
• Enjoy creating structure where little currently exists
• Can move comfortably between strategy and detailed execution
• Have strong commercial judgement and know how to prioritise
• Are confident working with data and turning analysis into action
• Build credibility with senior and experienced stakeholders
• Are persistent without being overly sales-led
• Enjoy working in an entrepreneurial, resource-constrained environment
• Already use AI as a meaningful part of how you research, analyse and deliver work
• Are willing to work hard and go the extra mile when important opportunities require it

More Information

You can find some more information on the role here